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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell and Anna Bawden

Top health official urged to recuse herself from private ADHD crackdown over ties to industry

Samantha Jones smiling for a portrait
Samantha Jones is responsible for overseeing the implementation of government decisions on health policy as the DHSC’s permanent secretary. Photograph: Andrew Parsons/No 10 Downing Street

A senior civil servant should play no part in ministers’ crackdown on private attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism clinics because of her recent ties to the industry, MPs have said.

Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs are demanding that Samantha Jones, the permanent secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), steps away from any role in plans to toughen regulation of the booming market in private neurodiversity assessments.

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