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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.
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 further Medicare rebates for you to claim.
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 review via initial assessment and psychiatry review prior to our management.
Many people have often been diagnosed in childhood with ADHD by paediatricians, but have not had any care or ongoing review for many years.
Others may have been reviewed by psychologists who have written reports stating that they have a diagnosis of ADHD.
Unfortunately, the Australian regulations around ADHD presciption medications are strict and highly regulated.
It will be helpful for our doctors to know that you have been diagnosed in childhood or more recently in adulthood, either by a previous doctor or with psychologist, however, due to regulations, we are still required to perform our own review to confirm this diagnosis prior to prescribing new medications or re-prescribing old medications.
This is in order to comply with the government and state regulations regarding the prescribing of stimulant and non-stimulant ADHD medications to patients.
The psychiatrist appointment is currently 2-6 weeks after the initial consultation. We have worked hard to streamline the process with information collected via electronic forms which are shared with the Dr ahead of your appointment. This makes the whole process very 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 GP service online and move or rebook any of your GP appointments via the online HotDoc 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 not provide the following reports:
We do provide the following:
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 15 minutes, we will send a sms to notify you of the current delay time.
If we have not been able to contact you due to delays we will reschedule your appointment at no additional costs to you.
We do ask that you double check that the phone number that you have listed via HotDoc is the correct number. Sometimes if you are booking under another person's HotDoc account, this may import the wrong phone number, so please be aware of this.
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