hi everyone
I was recently contacted by a family concerned about their daughter having difficulties in continuing her pre-nursing course. I guess they are thinking this could be discrimination and stereotyping other peoples difficulties with AD/HD to their daughter. Anyway they have provided information about this situation in an E-mail to me to relayed on to you. If anyone has a helpful ideas you can E-mail them directly or I can act as a relay. See their message below.
Andy
www.hi2u.org
My daughter Sian was diagnosed with ADHD in 1997. Since then she has been on Ritalin, purely for concentration reasons. She is now 16 and has just finished her GCSE's. She has obtained good results which have enabled her to start a pre-nursing at the beginning of September at the Cambridge Regional College. She is currently spending 3 days a week at the college and 2 days at Addenbrookes Hospital. Sian has had to fill in an occupational health form which has resulted in a various telephone calls asking for additional information. Information was only provided by Sian's consultant, which was seen and approved by us. The occupational Health department at the hospital have now informed us via the college that Sian will no longer be able to continue as because she may lose concentration when on the ward and consequently put a patient at risk. This decision was made by a doctor who has had no personal contact with Sian in order to assess her.
Any advice or information that you could provide would be greatly appreciated. In particular we would like to hear from anybody who has been in the same or similar position, especially if they work in a hospital with ADHD.
Stephen and Tracey Douglas
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