How it works
Start where you are. ADHDconnect keeps your information, your appointments and your ongoing care in one place — from assessment or transfer of care, through treatment, monitoring and review.
Where are you in your ADHD journey?
Each path starts in the same secure file, so nothing has to be repeated.
One connected pathway
Your care doesn’t stop at diagnosis.
- Your information
- Assessment or transfer
- Treatment
- Monitoring
- Ongoing care
All the pieces, brought together.
How your care works
What happens, and in what order.
Getting started
Clinical care
Continuing care
Step by step: what happens and how long it takes
From creating your file to ongoing care. Fees are shown at each appointment.
Create your secure file
Everything starts on ADHDconnect. You don't need a referral, and you don't need to have seen us before.
- Tell us where you're starting from: you think you might have ADHD, you've already been diagnosed, your GP referred you, or you're already a patient.
- Your answers, appointments, documents and results stay together in one secure file from day one.
- It saves as you go, so you can stop and come back whenever it suits you.
Pre-assessment and health history
These give your GP the background they need, so your first appointment can focus on you rather than paperwork.
- A pre-assessment questionnaire about what's bringing you to us and how ADHD-type difficulties show up in your daily life.
- Your health history: physical and mental health, current medicines, sleep, alcohol and other substances, heart health and family history. Follow-up questions only appear when they apply to you.
- Once both are done, you book your first appointment directly through your file. Your file also shows the whole pathway, so you always know what comes next.
Payment is taken on the day of each appointment.
Initial ADHD Consultation
A structured conversation with our Specialist ADHD GP about your symptoms and history, and whether the full assessment is the right next step for you.
- How your symptoms affect work, study, relationships and daily life.
- What you've told us in your pre-assessment and health history.
- What else might be contributing, such as anxiety, low mood, sleep problems or other health conditions.
Medicare rebates for the assessment require this first consultation to be face-to-face.
Your story, from more than one angle
ADHD starts in childhood, so evidence of symptoms when you were young is part of every assessment. It helps to start these early.
- Validated ADHD questionnaires about your symptoms now and as a child.
- Forms for someone who knows you well, and ideally someone who knew you as a child, usually a parent. You send them a link from your file.
- Upload anything that helps, such as school reports, previous assessments or letters from other doctors.
Comprehensive Diagnostic Assessment
A detailed assessment with your Specialist ADHD GP. They've already read your file, so the time is spent understanding you.
- A full DSM-5 assessment using validated tools, your questionnaires and the information from the people who know you.
- Screening for conditions that can look like ADHD or sit alongside it: anxiety, depression, trauma, sleep and thyroid conditions.
- Referrals for an ECG and blood tests. These are a safety check before medication can be considered.
Tests
- Your blood tests and ECG at a collection centre near you. Not every centre does ECGs, so check when you book. Your results come back to the clinic.
- Anything else your GP has asked for, such as records from a previous assessment or another treating doctor. You can upload these to your file.
Diagnosis & Treatment Planning
💊 Medication typically starts here*Your GP brings everything together, including your test results.
- Your results, questionnaires and history are explained, and your outcome is discussed with you.
- If ADHD is diagnosed, you'll make an individualised plan together: medication options and non-medication strategies.
- If ADHD isn't the answer, your GP explains why and what might be going on instead.
- Where clinically appropriate, medication can be started at this appointment.
Ongoing ADHD Care
Reviews keep your treatment safe and working, with the same clinician every time.
- Every medication works differently for different people. While your dose is being adjusted or your medication changed, you'll be seen as often as you need.
- Once you're settled, your script and treatment are reviewed every 4 months.
- Each review covers symptoms and side effects, blood pressure and heart rate, dose adjustments and script renewals.
- Request repeat scripts or a script review from your ADHDconnect file between visits.
* Where clinically appropriate. Some people need more than one appointment before a diagnosis or treatment decision is made.
After your assessment
Clear answers. Clear next steps.
If ADHD is diagnosed, you’ll receive written clinical documentation setting out your diagnosis, the clinical basis for the decision, your treatment plan, and medication where applicable.
Before your first appointment
- Review of your intake and questionnaire responses.
- A comprehensive assessment with your doctor, face-to-face at the clinic.
- Clear outcome, recommendations, and next steps.
- Set aside quiet, uninterrupted time for your intake.
- Have any past reports or notes handy if you have them.
- Bring questions or goals you want to cover in the session.
- Adults seeking a structured ADHD assessment.
- People who want clarity and a practical next-step plan.
- Anyone looking for doctor-led assessment with ongoing care afterwards.
Privacy and secure telehealth. Your responses are treated as health information. Your intake link is unique to you and saves progress as you go. Where an appointment is delivered by telehealth it runs over secure video, and only clinical staff involved in your care access the data.