Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I thank Senator Xenophon for his supplementary question. With regard to the question as to the guidelines and whether they should be reviewed, I can take you to Professor David Forbes, who is the chair of the college’s guidelines working group and what he said earlier this week:

The college has and is looking carefully at the evidence around ADHD and through the process has responded to new evidence and submitted comments. At this point the evidence base has not changed sufficiently to warrant starting this process again.

I expect that the latest draft guidelines, along with supplementary information that summarises and provides further references for the analysis and management of ADHA will be released in the very near future. (Time expired)