Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 263-2026
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
1. Service Provision
For each locality or service area covered by your Trust, please confirm whether your Trust provides each of the following services:
- Adult ADHD assessments
- Adult ADHD medication initiation or titration
- Adult ASD/ASC assessments
- CYP ADHD assessments
- CYP ADHD medication initiation, titration or physical monitoring
- CYP ASD/ASC assessments
- Neurodevelopmental triage or screening services, where separate from full diagnostic assessment
If any of the above services are not provided by your Trust in a particular locality, please state which organisation is responsible for providing or commissioning that service.
Our response:
The Trust provides the following services:
- CYP ADHD assessments
- CYP ADHD medication initiation, titration or physical monitoring
- CYP ASD/ASC assessments
- Neurodevelopmental triage or screening services, where separate from full diagnostic assessment
You asked:
2. Service Locations and Pathways
For each service listed in Section 1, please provide all:
– Clinic, hub or service names
Our response:
Main base is Evergreen House, Charlton Lane, Cheltenham, GL53 9DZ and Admin base is – Rikenel, Montpellier, Gloucester, GL1 1LY
We have ADHD assessment; straight-forwards and complex, and Autism assessments; straight-forwards and complex, Dual assessment for Autism and ADHD, Occupational Therapy Assessments, ADHD Medication reviews, Speech and Language Assessment, Cognitive assessments
You asked:
– Towns/city’s and postal addresses
Our response:
| Battledown, Cheltenham General Hospital, Second floor, College Road Wing, Sandford Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL53 7AN |
| The Oaks Children and Family Centre, Holmleigh Road, Tuffley, Gloucester, GL4 0RN |
| Hester’s Way, Children and Family Centre, Dill Avenue, Cheltenham GL51 0ES 01242 222490 |
| Lexham Pavilion, Copt Elm Road, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, Glos, GL53 8AG |
| Community Services Clinic, 38-39 Barton Road, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, GL20 5QL |
| Evergreen House, Charlton Lane, Cheltenham, GL53 9HD |
| Acorn House, Horton Road, Gloucester, GL1 3PX |
| Rikenel, Montpellier, GLOUCESTER, GL1 1LY |
| Cirencester Hospital, Community Hospital, Tetbury Road, Cirencester, GL7 1UY (if you go to main reception in outpatients to let them know you have arrived and then go to the waiting room in the Quern’s Suite). |
| Collier’s Court, Latimer Road, Cinderford, GL14 2QA |
| Woodlands, Park House, Park Road, Stroud, GL5 2JG – YP Rooms 1,3,4 |
| Avon House, Green Lane Business Park, Tewkesbury, GL20 8SJ (at entrance please use the buzzer for Red / Green /Blue Room) |
| Forest of Dean Community Hospital, Steam Mills Road, Cinderford GL14 3HY |
You asked:
– Functional team email addresses
Our response:
Ghc.caaas.team@nhs.net – email for parents/carers and professionals to email queries
Ghc.caaasreferrals@nhs.net – email for professionals to send in referrals to our service
Ghc.caaasclinicians@nhs.net – for team members to email admin, admin tasks and requests
Ghc.caaas.appointments@nhs.net – email address we use to email parents/carers and professionals details of appointments we are offering (assessment side)
Ghc.caaasmedication@nhs.net – use for sending medication review appt details, inbox for families to email repeat prescription request – medicated under our team
•Team telephone numbers
You asked:
– Team telephone numbers
Our response:
0300 421 4224 – Evergreen House
0300 421 4690/4692 – Rikenel admin
You asked:
3. Use of External Providers
Please confirm whether your Trust currently uses external providers for any of the following:
- Adult ADHD assessments
- Adult ADHD medication initiation or titration
- Adult ASD/ASC assessments
- CYP ADHD assessments
- CYP ADHD medication initiation, titration or physical monitoring
- CYP ASD/ASC assessments
If yes, please provide:
- Supplier name
- Service provided
- Locality or pathway covered
- Whether the model is insourcing, outsourcing, subcontracting, framework call-off, direct award or another arrangement
- Contract start date
- Contract end date or review date
- Procurement route, such as framework, open tender, direct award or other
- Estimated annual contract value, if available
Our response:
The Trust uses an external provider for:
- CYP ASD/ASC assessments
Supplier – Psicon
Services provided – ASD assessment and diagnosis
You asked:
4. Future Commissioning and Pathway Review
Please confirm:
- Whether your Trust expects to procure additional ADHD or ASD/ASC assessment capacity within the next 24 months
- Whether your Trust is reviewing or redesigning its ADHD or ASD/ASC diagnostic pathways
- Whether your Trust plans to expand, reduce or change its use of external providers
Our response:
- Whether your Trust expects to procure additional ADHD or ASD/ASC assessment capacity within the next 24 months – Not known at this stage.
- Whether your Trust is reviewing or redesigning its ADHD or ASD/ASC diagnostic pathways – Yes.
- Whether your Trust plans to expand, reduce or change its use of external providers – Not known at this stage.
You asked:
5. Key Contacts
Please provide the name, job title, NHS email address and telephone number, where applicable and publicly available, or a generic team email address and duty/team telephone number, for the following roles:
- Head of Neurodevelopmental Services
- Head of Adult Mental Health Services
- Head of Mental Health Adult Services responsible for ADHD or ASD/ASC pathways
- Head of CYP Mental Health Services
- Head of Mental Health CYP/CAMHS
- Head of CAMHS or CYP Neurodevelopmental Services
- Head of Pathways or Head of Integrated Care Pathways responsible for ADHD or ASD/ASC pathways
- Adult ADHD Service Lead
- Adult ASD/ASC Service Lead
- CAMHS ADHD Service Lead
- CAMHS ASD/ASC Service Lead
- CYP ADHD Service Lead
- CYP ASD/ASC Service Lead
- Operational Manager responsible for Neurodevelopmental Services
- Operational Manager responsible for Adult ADHD or ASD/ASC services
- Operational Manager responsible for CAMHS or CYP ADHD or ASD/ASC services
- General Manager responsible for Neurodevelopmental Services
- Director of Operations responsible for these service lines
- Clinical Director overseeing these service lines
- Procurement Lead for Mental Health Services
- Procurement Lead for Community Services
- Procurement Lead for Neurodevelopmental Services
- Any equivalent, differently named or additional contact roles responsible for ADHD, ASD/ASC, neurodevelopmental pathways, service operations or procurement where the role titles above do not match the Trust’s structure
Our response:
Information below for roles the Trust has in place:
- Head of CYP Mental Health Services HARRISON, Melanie, melanie.harrison22@nhs.net
- Head of Mental Health CYP/CAMHS HARRISON, Melanie, melanie.harrison22@nhs.net
- Head of CAMHS or CYP Neurodevelopmental Services HARRISON, Melanie , melanie.harrison22@nhs.net
- CAMHS ADHD Service Lead -Emma Wright – DSD emma.wright134@nhs.net
- CAMHS ASD/ASC Service Lead – Emma Wright – DSD emma.wright134@nhs.net
- CYP ADHD Service Lead – Emma Wright – DSD emma.wright134@nhs.net
- CYP ASD/ASC Service Lead – Emma Wright – DSD emma.wright134@nhs.net
- Operational Manager responsible for CAMHS or CYP ADHD or ASD/ASC services – Anna Walkden, anna.walkden@nhs.net
Next steps:
Should you have any queries in relation to our response, please do not hesitate to contact us. If you are unhappy with the response you have received in relation to your request and wish to ask us to review our response, you should write to:
Louise Moss
Head of Legal Services / Associate Director of Corporate Governance
c/o Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth, GL3 4AW
E-mail: louise.moss20@nhs.net
If you are not content with the outcome of any review, you may apply directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for further advice/guidance. Generally, the ICO will not consider your case unless you have exhausted your enquiries with the Trust which should include considering the use of the Trust’s formal complaints procedure. The ICO can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.