Top health civil servant urged to play no role in clampdown on ADHD clinics

Four MPs raise conflict of interest concerns over Samantha Jones’s past links to a big provider of ADHD assessments A senior civil servant should play no part in ministers’ crackdown on private ADHD and autism clinics because of her recent ties to the industry, MPs have said. Lab

Four MPs raise conflict of interest concerns over Samantha Jones’s past links to a big provider of ADHD assessments A senior civil servant should play no part in ministers’ crackdown on private ADHD and autism clinics because of her recent ties to the industry, MPs have said. Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs are demanding that Samantha Jones, permanent secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), steps away from any role in plans to toughen regulation of the booming market in private neurodiversity assessments. Continue reading...