Age Range
Children from 9+, young people and adults
The ADHD Centre is listed for private ADHD assessment support in Bournemouth and the wider Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole and Dorset area. If you're comparing private ADHD assessment routes, what matters is what you actually get: a NICE-aligned assessment, a report schools and employers will accept, clear treatment guidance, and follow-up that doesn't leave you on your own afterwards.
For Bournemouth, local fit matters: Bournemouth families often need advice for school attendance, dyslexia, anxiety, neurodevelopmental overlap and BCP recommendations. Ask how the provider gathers school, home, college, workplace or family evidence, and whether the report is written clearly enough for EHCP evidence and SEND support across BCP and Dorset.
This route is marked as online / clinic network rather than a guaranteed fixed city clinic unless the provider confirms a local appointment. Before you commit, it's worth checking a few things that protect your family: that the clinician is registered, that the process follows NICE guidance, the options for medication or titration, current fees and waiting time, and whether the report is accepted by schools, universities, employers, NHS teams or shared-care arrangements.
Assessment scope: Specialist ADHD assessment, psychiatrist or clinician review, treatment planning and follow-up.
Children from 9+, young people and adults
Online / clinic network
Provider to confirm current ADHD assessment wait time
Provider to confirm assessment, report, medication and titration fees
Specialist ADHD assessment, psychiatrist or clinician review, treatment planning and follow-up
Families, adults, schools or professionals can enquire; confirm referral route with provider
Written ADHD assessment report usually available; confirm scope before booking
Feedback, recommendations, school/work adjustments and treatment or medication guidance where appropriate
Can consider attention, executive function, emotional regulation, sleep, sensory and autism overlap where in scope
School, work, organisation, routines, planning, emotional regulation and everyday executive functioning
Ask whether recommendations are written for EHCP evidence and SEND support across BCP and Dorset
Online / clinic network
Ask provider about DBS, safeguarding, named clinicians and parent/chaperone attendance for child assessments
Ask provider to confirm clinician registration and prescribing arrangements where relevant
The ADHD Centre, Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole and Dorset
Bournemouth