Ark Clinics – Medical British Academy

Ark Clinics is a private outpatient clinic at Werneth Grange in Oldham, Greater Manchester, offering ADHD and autism assessments for children, young people and adults up to 65, with follow-on treatment where needed. It is a medical clinic rather than a neurodivergent-led practice: ADHD and autism sit within a wider psychiatry service and a separate neurorehabilitation service for people aged 16 and over. For a family or adult who has been told the NHS wait runs to years, the practical draw is speed — the clinic offers appointments in as little as 48 hours, including evenings and weekends, and people can book directly without a GP referral.

The ADHD assessment lasts two hours and includes a QB Check, a computer-based measure of attention, impulsivity and activity, alongside the clinical interview. The autism assessment lasts three hours and uses the ADOS-2 and ADI-R. Unusually for a private clinic, the team is named on the site: consultant child and adolescent psychiatrists Dr Lourence Hanna, who is also medical director, and Dr Hayat Khan; consultant adult psychiatrists Dr Mary Morcos and Dr Hossam Marey; specialist speech and language therapist and ADOS assessor Sally Giles; and consultant in rehabilitation medicine Dr Fayez Morcos.

After diagnosis, the clinic offers 30-minute medication titration appointments, therapy sessions and repeat prescriptions. Because neurodevelopmental work is one part of a broader psychiatric caseload, Ark Clinics may suit people who want assessment and ongoing care in one place more than those looking for a lived-experience-led service; it is worth asking which clinician will carry out a given assessment when booking.