Archive · Guardian World

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

Global Published 15 October 2026, 19:34 · archived 15 Oct 2026

Four MPs raise conflict of interest concerns over Samantha Jones’s past links to a big provider of ADHD assessmentsA 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, the Department of Health and Social Care’s permanent secretary, steps away from any role in plans to toughen regulation of the booming market in private neurodiversity assessments. Continue reading...

ZAZTEK archives the headline, summary and publication date so the story stays findable. The full article remains the publisher's. Read it at Guardian World →