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ADHD insights from confirming diagnoses to initiating stimulant treatment

Video

FREE WEBINAR: A brief overview of the landscape for Aroreretini/ADHD in Primary Care since February 1 2026, and the change in legislation allowing RNZCGP Fellows and Nurse Practitioners with additional appropriate training to authorise initiation of stimulant treatment as part of a comprehensive management plan for Tangata Whaiora with a confirmed diagnosis of Aroreretini/ADHD.

Covering:

  • Responsibilities and obligations for primary care providers since the legislation change, and some common questions and queries from patients and practitioners.
  • Practitioner upskilling, available training and existing and emerging supports for practices and practitioners wanting to provide better neuroaffirming care for Tangata Whaiora with Aroreretini/ADHD and Takiwatanga/Autism.
  • Ideas and suggestions for models of care in practices embracing and looking to incorporate assessment for and confirmation of diagnosis of ADHD, where appropriate, as part of their neuroaffirming care.
  • Embracing emerging tools and resources in 2026 to help make this component of neuroaffirming care more achievable and sustainable.
  • Emerging associations and wider related conditions that practices and practitioners embracing neuroaffirming care for Tangata Whaiora with Aroreretini/ADHD and Takiwatanga/Autism will start to make more sense and have an understandable framework for approaching and walking with their Tangata Whaiora on their journey.
  • Reminders about how to keep practitioners and practices healthy and neuroaffirming through this process.

As always, we will answer as many questions as possible

Presenter

Michael Buckley

Specialist General Practitioner

Michael is a specialist General Practitioner and an associate at a Wellington suburban general practice.

He is the Inaugural Chair of the RNZCGP Aroreretini/ADHD Specific Interest Group and a member of the Wellington Primary Liaison Group for improving access to diagnosis and initiation of stimulant treatment in General Practice for children with Aroreretini/ADHD. Michael is also a member of the NZ National GP ADHD Peer Group and a member of AADPA (Australasian ADHD Professionals Association) and has lived experience with ADHD (adult diagnosis).

He is a father of teenage kids in a modern family.