No referral is necessary. At Elite Focus, we've streamlined the process so all you need to do is book your initial appointment online.
In medical terms, an adult is considered to be between the ages of 18-60 years of age.
Outside of these age groups, there are special considerations to be made for ongoing health concerns.
As such, there are sub-specialty areas of both psychiatry and medicine that specifically deal with people within these age categories.
Unfortunately, Elite Focus does not have the capacity to provide these services to these age groups.
We apologise for the inconvenience and recommend you seek out assistance with a paediatrician if you are under the age of 18 or a psycho-geriatrician if you are over the age of 60 years old.
With decades of experience and careful consideration, we have streamlined our process to include only what you need.
We provide a clear ADHD diagnosis and promptly initiate first-line management when appropriate.
This ensures you receive the necessary care quickly and efficiently, without any unnecessary hassle.
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The Elite Focus Team provides an all-in-one service.
Diagnosis with Elite Focus means that you are engaging with ongoing management with the Elite Focus Doctors.
This is the Elite Focus ADHD Model of Care.
We do not engage in shared prescribing with a patient’s regular or alternative GP.
When you choose Elite Focus, please understand that shared prescribing with an external doctor is not an option.
Elite Focus Psychiatrists are not comfortable supervising doctors with whom they have no previous experience. Psychiatrists are legally accountable for the person prescribing under their supervision. It is not within our capacity to have oversight of multiple doctors all over Australia, outside of our Elite Team.
Regardless of our position, there are many other psychiatry services that offer the transfer and oversight of prescribing to external third-party GP clinics. Your original GP must agree to this arrangement and must refer you as their patient.
Elite Focus will NOT provide this option or oversight. Please do not ask for this, as it will not be provided. If you wish to participate in a shared prescribing arrangement under a 291 model, we recommend engaging with an alternative service, before you engage with our clinic.
This is the decision of The Elite Focus Psychiatrist Team.
ADHD is a neuro-developmental condition that impacts on concentration/focus, restlessness and impulsiveness. Sometimes people only have problems with focus/concentration without the hyperactivity or impulsiveness, this is sometimes referred to ADD – or ADHD inattentive type.
The treatment for ADD and ADHD is the same. ADD is really just a sub-category of ADHD, not a different condition. Half to three quarters of children with ADHD grow out of the condition, but a significant proportion of people continue throughout their life with ongoing features of ADHD.
Adult ADHD simply refers to ADHD/ADD that continues into adulthood, whether it was diagnosed in childhood or newly recognised for the first time in adulthood. When diagnosed or recognised in adulthood, even if it hasn’t always been a major issue causing distress or impairment, the pattern of ADHD/ADD will track back into childhood.
Elite Focus is a private billing clinic. This means that we do NOT accept money from Medicare for your consultation. Therefore, there are NO Medicare rebates for you to claim. Please refer to our terms of service for more detailed information. It is your responsibility to make yourself aware of these prior to engaging with the clinic.
Private health funds do NOT pay for out-of-pocket expenses attributed to medical doctors.
Insurance benefits are only available to some allied health providers via private health insurance excess schemes, but this is NOT available for consultation with any medical professionals.
Please review the link below in relation to "what private health insurance covers"
https://www.health.gov.au/topics/private-health-insurance/what-private-health-insurance-covers
You will still need to undergo all of the steps outlined under the Elite Focus process, despite any previous diagnoses. These steps are required for all patient's engaging with the Elite Focus team for assessment and psychiatry review prior to receiving treatment.
We understand that many people have often been diagnosed previously with ADHD, either in childhood or adulthood and commenced on medication. Other patients may have received a comprehensive psychology assessment but have not been able to access medications.
It will be helpful for our doctors to know that you have had a previous diagnosis or trial of treatment, however, we still require the patient to undertake all steps in order for us to perform our own review to confirm this diagnosis prior to prescribing new medications or re-prescribing old medications.
Our psychiatrists will only initiate and delegate prescribing to the Elite Focus doctors, after undertaking their own diagnostic assessment to confirm the diagnosis.
All steps in the process are mandatory and are required for our team to gather important information to establish a suitable medical profile for each individual patient.
If this is not suitable for your needs, then please engage with an alternative service.
Please refer to our terms of service for more information.
The psychiatrist appointment can be within a few days of your initial appointment depending on your schedule. We have worked hard to streamline the process with information collected via electronic forms which are shared with the Elite Focus Team ahead of your appointment. This makes the process efficient.
In order for Elite Focus to work efficiently and to maintain a streamlined service, we do not allow patients to book this appointment online.
You are able to book your initial consultation with the Elite Focus special interest GP service online and move or rebook any of your GP appointments via the online Hot Doc appointment system.
Please be aware that psychiatrist appointment fees are collected prior to the consultation. If this payment is not made in the 24 hours prior to the scheduled appointment time, this will be cancelled.
We do provide the following:
We DO NOT provide the following reports:
Details regarding the Elite Focus fees can be found on the fees tab above.
Unfortunately, sometimes our doctors do run late, as can be the case in any medical clinic and we appreciate your patience in these instances.
For delays longer than 30 minutes, we will reschedule your appointment at no additional costs to you. We will try to call you if we have not been able to get hold of you multiple times, before we give up. We will send you an email and will leave a voicemail to let you know we have called and the processes for rebooking.
Please note, that if we call you within the 15 minutes of your appointment time, and you do not answer, and we have attempted multiple times, we will also send you an email to let you know we have not been able to reach you. In this instance, the appointment is not rebooked without further charges to the patient.
We do ask that you double check that the phone number that you have listed via Hot Doc is the correct number. Sometimes if you are booking under another person's Hot Doc account, this may import the wrong phone number, so please be aware of this.
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