About Seen Sooner
Seen Sooner is a free UK tool that helps adults, children, and families find the fastest route to an ADHD or autism assessment — whether that is NHS Right to Choose or a private provider.
Seen Sooner is an information and navigation tool — not a medical service. Nothing on this site constitutes medical advice or a clinical recommendation. Always consult your GP or a registered healthcare professional before making decisions about assessment or treatment.
Why we built this
Finding an ADHD or autism assessment in the UK means piecing together NHS guidance, provider websites and word of mouth, usually while already struggling.
NHS waiting lists for ADHD assessment can stretch to five years or more in some areas. Many people are unaware that NHS Right to Choose — a policy that lets patients in England ask their GP to refer them to a private CQC-registered provider at no cost — even exists.
Seen Sooner was created to fix this. Three questions, under two minutes, and you have a personalised shortlist of providers matched to your location, age group, and preferences — ranked by cost-effectiveness and wait time.
The service covers ADHD, Autism (ASD), and combined AuDHD assessments for both adults and children, across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
Founder's Story: The “Hard Boiled Egg” Moment
I'm 45 now, and I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult at 42. For my whole life, I knew I was different, but I always thought it was just a black cloud following me around... that everything I did somehow went wrong.
Years ago, someone sent me a meme that stuck with me forever: “People will judge you by your actions and not your intentions... you may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard boiled egg!”
From then on, we had a saying in our house. Whenever something went wrong despite the absolute best of intentions, we called it a “hard boiled egg moment.”
Being diagnosed so late in life as an adult means I have spent a lot of time longing for what might have been. I cannot complain about my life or where I am today, but I would have liked to have got here just a little bit easier than it was.
I've grieved. I've cried. I've been angry. I've been upset. I've laughed. And of course, in true ADHD fashion, I've pored over every single little thing a million times—replaying conversations from 15 or 20 years ago: the “I said,” the “they said,” and the endless “I wish I'd saids.”
The diagnostic journey wasn't the easiest, but I am so incredibly glad I did it when I did. Today, my local NHS Wales waiting list has stretched to 4+ years. I am medicated now—some days it helps, and some days it doesn't—but at least now I finally have a reason for the way I am and the way I feel, and that is half the battle.
My one hope is that this directory helps at least one person. To show them that there is help available, that they are not alone, and that a diagnosis helps you understand who you are.
— Steve Banks
Founder, Seen Sooner
Our principles
Always free
Seen Sooner will never charge you to use the matching service. We are funded by advertising and by subscription fees paid by listed providers. Neither affects how results are ranked.
Independent
Providers pay a subscription to keep a listing active, but no provider can pay to rank higher or be featured. Rankings are produced algorithmically from objective factors: regulatory rating, wait time, cost, and distance from your postcode.
Built for the community
Seen Sooner was created out of direct experience with the difficulty of navigating ADHD and autism assessment in the UK. The aim is to make the first step simpler.
How Seen Sooner works
Our matching engine uses your postcode to detect your UK nation and your nearest Integrated Care Board (ICB) area in England — this determines whether NHS Right to Choose applies and which providers are geographically close to you.
Providers are sourced from the CQC register and cross-referenced with publicly available information on wait times, pricing, age groups, and accepted funding routes. We refresh this data regularly and integrate with the CQC's public API at build time to surface the latest regulatory ratings.
Results are ranked by a value score that weighs cost, wait time, CQC rating, and distance from your postcode — so the most cost-effective and practical option appears first, not the most commercially promoted.
Our data sources
We check every provider against the public registers and sources below. Where we cannot find a matching registration, we say so on the listing rather than leaving it out — some legitimate services, such as non-prescribing psychology practices, fall outside the regulator's scope. The sources we use:
Care Quality Commission (CQC)
England's independent regulator of health and social care. We verify CQC registration, location, and inspection rating for all English providers.
Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS)
Regulatory body for independent healthcare providers in Scotland. Used to verify Scottish clinic registrations.
Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW)
Regulatory body for healthcare services in Wales. Used to verify Welsh provider registrations.
RQIA (Northern Ireland)
The Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority regulates health and social care in Northern Ireland.
NHS ICB and Health Board websites
We consult each Integrated Care Board (England) and devolved health board (Wales, Scotland, NI) for Right to Choose status, referral pathways, and local guidance.
Provider websites and published fee schedules
Prices, wait times, and service scope are taken from providers' own published information and updated when changes are reported or detected.
Editorial standards and data quality
Regular updates: Provider data is reviewed and updated on an ongoing basis. We cross-check registration status, pricing, and wait time estimates against provider communications and NHS publications. Prices and waits change often, so always confirm directly with a provider before booking.
Payment never affects ranking: Listed providers pay a subscription fee, but it buys a listing and nothing more. No provider can pay to rank higher or be featured, and ranking is applied identically to subscribing and non-subscribing providers, using distance from the postcode entered, regulatory rating, wait time, and cost.
Editorial notes: Some listings carry a short comment from us — that a provider is a good budget option, say, or that its price range is wide. These are our own editorial observations based on published prices, waits and service scope. They are not part of the ranking calculation and no provider can pay for or influence them.
Reader corrections: We rely partly on users to flag inaccurate or outdated data. If you spot an error, please report a problem and we will review and correct it promptly.
Frequently asked questions
How does Seen Sooner make money?
Two ways. We display advertising through Google AdSense, and listed providers pay a subscription fee to keep their listing active. Neither buys a better position in results — ranking is algorithmic and uses the same criteria for every provider, paid or not. Providers who do not subscribe are still listed where we hold verified information about them.
Are the provider details on Seen Sooner verified?
We cross-reference provider information with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) database and publicly available information. However, wait times, prices, and availability change frequently — always confirm details directly with the provider before booking.
Does Seen Sooner store my postcode or health information?
Your postcode, age group and preferences are used within your browser session to generate results and are not stored against you. We do record anonymous click-out counts when you follow a link to a provider, and community wait time reports are stored if you choose to submit one. Our privacy policy sets out exactly what is kept and for how long.
Can I suggest a provider to be added?
Yes. Use the report a problem page to send us the provider details and their registration number, and we will review the submission. We add providers that meet our listing criteria.
Contact us
We welcome feedback, provider suggestions, and correction requests. If you spot an error in provider information, please let us know and we will review it promptly.
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