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What Can General Practice Do to Support the Increasing Number of Adults and Children with Neurodiversity?

Dr Yasmin Husain
MBChB BSc Biochem MRCGP
Nora Young
Founder of BREWS CIC
Thursday 15 May 2025
Start Time: 19:30 |
Finish Time: 21:30
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2 hours CPD
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Learning Objectives

More and more Parents are presenting to General Practice with their children asking for a referral because they think their child has ADHD and/or autism.

Many parents say that they have realised that they may also be neurodiverse after reading up on the topic and being told that it can run in families. We are therefore making more referrals to the Adult ADHD and Autism services as well for formal diagnosis.

There are long waiting times for children and adults to get a diagnosis on the NHS.

So, what can we do to support our patients while they are waiting? To answer this question and others, I will be co-delivering this training session with Nora Young, a person with lived experience, ex-teacher and cofounder of Birmingham Resilience, Education and Well-being Services (BREWS CIC).

Together, we will cover the following Learning Outcomes: 

  • What is neurodiversity? And what is it not? - dispelling myths
  • ADHD in detail: the three types, the role of dopamine, emotional regulation, RSD
  • Autism and the overlap
  • Neurodiverse families and the issues they face
  • The Neurodevelopmental pathway including which questionnaires to use
  • How General Practice can help support patients whilst waiting for the diagnosis to be made
  • How General Practice can support children and parents after the diagnosis has been made
  • Resources to support adults, children, parents and Health Professionals

Meet the Speakers

Dr Yasmin Husain
MBChB BSc Biochem MRCGP

Yasmin has been practicing as a GP for 28 years. She currently does one clinical session a week in a Practice in Birmingham. She started her career in safeguarding in 2014 as a “Safeguarding Champion” for Birmingham Cross City CCG. She has been a named GP For NHS Birmingham and Solihull ICB Safeguarding team since 2018 and does 5.5 sessions a week. As part of this role, she has responsibility for the Learning and Development programme in Birmingham and Solihull and has therefore been very active in providing training for all General Practice Staff- clinical and non- clinical. She designs bespoke presentations depending on the audience and their safeguarding learning requirements. She is also a Clinical Educator for the IRISi Domestic abuse programme, which is a collaboration between Primary Care and local Domestic Abuse services across England, and a trainer for Prevent (radicalisation). She understands the learning needs of General Practice Staff by participating in Domestic Homicide Reviews, Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and Safeguarding Adult Reviews and keeping up to date with RCGP, GMC and CQC expectations of General Practice in safeguarding.

Nora Young
Founder of BREWS CIC

Nora Young founded BREWS CIC in 2021. She has ADHD and is the proud parent of autistic/ADHD children.

She was a schoolteacher for 27 years, working in Birmingham and in Hull. She then worked in the voluntary sector and with Early Help for Families.

Having lived experience of the impact ADHD has had on her own mental health and her children’s she is passionate about supporting the mental health and wellbeing of neurodivergent families in Birmingham.

She runs courses for parents and carers of children with ADHD called Nurturing ADHD Kids and also trains school staff, support workers, third sector organisations and medical practices in how to support neurodivergent families.

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