Please use this checklist to allow you to monitor your child following starting ADHD medication or should any changes be made.

• When first starting medication: you will be booked an appointment with a member of the clinical team at six to eight weeks for a telephone review. We request that you obtain your child’s weight, height, blood pressure and pulse in preparation for this call. This can be completed at your child’s GP surgery or some pharmacies.
• If at any time you have non-urgent medical concerns for your child you can contact the service on 0300 123 4087 or by email at CommunityPaediatrics@nhs.net (please note that the phone lines are very busy, you may consider email as a preferred option)
• Should you have any urgent medical concerns for your child you should see your child’s GP or contact 111 or 999 as required.
• After the first month we will request your child’s GP to undertake repeat prescriptions for your child under a shared care agreement. Your child’s GP surgery will be able to regularly review your child’s height, weight, blood pressure and pulse. We will undertake a minimum of an annual medication review (this may be sooner as advised by the member of the clinical team) and advise the GP should there need to be any changes to your child’s prescription.

Please seek urgent help if your child develops any of the following:

• Fast or irregular heartbeat, your child may say their heart is beating much faster than usual or say it is racing
• Has serious changes in mood or personality
• Has thoughts about harming themselves
• Starts seeing, feeling or hearing things that are not real
• Has started to get facial tics (quick, little movements in the muscles of the face that cannot be controlled.

In very rare cases it is possible to have an allergic reaction, please call 999 or get to A&E if:

• trouble breathing
• swelling of tongue, face, lips
• tightness in chest or throat
• wheezing
• skin rash that may include itch, red, swollen, blistered or peeling skin.