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NHS Right to Choose: Autism assessment.
Adult NHS waits for diagnostic autism assessment routinely run into multiple years across most Integrated Care Boards. Under NHS Patient Choice Guidance (19 December 2023) you have a legal right to ask your GP for a referral to any NHS-contracted provider. We draft the letter that names the guidance, names your provider, and goes on your medical record.
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- A referral via the NHS e-Referral Service to the NHS-contracted autism assessment provider you name, in line with NHS Patient Choice Guidance (2023).
- The diagnostic pathway described in NHS guideline CG142, quoted in the letter alongside the difficulties you described.
- Written confirmation of any post-diagnostic support the surgery is willing to offer or co-ordinate.
- A written request that any decision, including a refusal, is recorded in your notes. The letter itself is filed on your medical record.
Two letters. £39.
A formal Right to Choose letter to your NHS GP for adult autism diagnostic assessment naming the provider you pick, plus a pre-written complaint to the commissioner that you keep in reserve and only send if your GP refuses or does not reply.
RTC Letter
Two letters: a Right to Choose letter to your GP, plus a complaint to the commissioner held in reserve.
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- A personalised Right to Choose letter to your NHS GP, so your request is on the record
- Cites NHS Patient Choice Guidance (2023) verbatim
- Names the NHS-contracted provider you chose
- A second letter: a pre-written Stage 1 complaint to your commissioner, to send only if your GP refuses or does not reply
- Letter-quality PDF and plain-text version
- Free redraft if anything reads wrong, no limit
- A free redraft, and a refund on request: 180 days. For any reason or for no reason at all. Email us and we refund you.
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My GP says there's no NHS autism pathway in our area, what now?
NHS Patient Choice Guidance (2023) is clear that referrals under the legal right to choice can be made to any qualifying NHS-contracted provider, even when the ICB has no existing relationship with that provider. The letter names your chosen provider and cites the guidance verbatim.
Can my GP refuse my Right to Choose referral for autism assessment?
Not on cost or local-contract grounds. NHS Patient Choice Guidance (2023) is explicit that prior commissioner approval is not required where a patient exercises a legal right to choice. The letter asks for any refusal to be put in writing.
Which providers are NHS-contracted for adult autism assessment?
A small number of independent providers hold NHS contracts and accept Right to Choose referrals for adult autism diagnostic assessment. You name the provider in the form; the letter cites them verbatim. Our Right to Choose: autism guide covers what to look for.
Right to Choose autism, by ICB.
England moved from 42 Integrated Care Boards to 36 on 1 April 2026. The guides below are organised by the 42 historic footprints the evidence was gathered against, and each card names the successor commissioner where the old body was abolished. Each guide covers local providers, the smaller pool of NHS-contracted autism RtC providers, NHS waits and what to do if your GP refuses.
London
North East London ICB
Tower Hamlets, Hackney
North Central London ICB (historic area)
Camden, Islington
Abolished 1 April 2026, now part of West and North London ICB
North West London ICB (historic area)
Westminster, Brent
Abolished 1 April 2026, now part of West and North London ICB
South East London ICB
Bromley, Greenwich
South West London ICB
Wandsworth, Croydon
South East
Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB
Southampton, Portsmouth
Kent and Medway ICB
Maidstone, Medway
Sussex ICB (historic area)
Brighton, Eastbourne
Abolished 1 April 2026, now part of Surrey and Sussex ICB
Surrey Heartlands ICB (historic area)
Guildford, Woking
Abolished 1 April 2026, now part of Surrey and Sussex ICB
BOB ICB (historic area)
Oxford, Reading
Abolished 1 April 2026, now part of Thames Valley ICB
Frimley ICB (historic area)
Frimley, Camberley
Abolished 1 April 2026. Abolished 1 April 2026, split between Thames Valley, Hampshire and Isle of Wight, and Surrey and Sussex
South West
East of England
BLMK ICB (historic area)
Luton, Milton Keynes
Abolished 1 April 2026, now part of Central East ICB
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICB (historic area)
Cambridge, Peterborough
Abolished 1 April 2026, now part of Central East ICB
Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB (historic area)
Hertford, Stevenage
Abolished 1 April 2026, now part of Central East ICB (Hertfordshire) and Essex ICB (West Essex)
Mid and South Essex ICB (historic area)
Chelmsford, Basildon
Abolished 1 April 2026, now part of Essex ICB
Norfolk and Waveney ICB (historic area)
Norwich, Great Yarmouth
Abolished 1 April 2026, now part of Norfolk and Suffolk ICB
Suffolk and North East Essex ICB (historic area)
Ipswich, Colchester
Abolished 1 April 2026, now part of Norfolk and Suffolk ICB (Suffolk) and Essex ICB (North East Essex)
Midlands
Birmingham and Solihull ICB
Birmingham, Solihull
Black Country ICB
Wolverhampton, Walsall
Coventry and Warwickshire ICB
Coventry, Warwick
Derby and Derbyshire ICB
Derby, Chesterfield
Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB
Worcester, Hereford
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB
Leicester, Loughborough
Lincolnshire ICB
Lincoln, Boston
Northamptonshire ICB
Northampton, Corby
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB
Nottingham, Mansfield
Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB
Shrewsbury, Telford
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB
Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford
North East and Yorkshire
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