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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Ella Pickover

NHS ‘needs to do more to support autistic people’

The NHS has been challenged to do more to help neurodivergent patients (Alamy/PA) -

Autistic people and those with ADHD are avoiding seeking health care as they can find waiting rooms “unbearable”, experts have said as they called for more to be done to support neurodivergent people navigate NHS services.

The Society of Radiographers (SoR) said patients face a number of barriers when accessing care – from the way they can communicate with health workers to overstimulating diagnostic tools and waiting areas.

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