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Alex Mitchell

Slow uptake in GPs prescribing ADHD medication

Recent reforms have opened the door for GPs to prescribe ADHD meds to save patients time and money. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Tweaks permitting general practitioners to prescribe ongoing ADHD medication have been hailed as "life-changing", despite less than one per cent of eligible doctors undertaking the required training.

GPs in NSW can now prescribe continuing medicines to people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, in a move designed to spare patients the long wait times and high cost of specialist doctor consultations.

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