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
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.
Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from:
