Sadiqur Rahman

ADHD Specialist Pharmacist Assessor · Adult ADHD Assessment

Clinical experience

Clinical pharmacist in general practice (Hopwood House Surgery) and community pharmacy (Rowlands, Ashcroft Pharmacy), delivering NHS clinical services, structured medication reviews, clinical governance, incident reporting and audit.

Trained by the UK Adult ADHD Network (UKAAN); interested in recognition of ADHD missed in childhood and culturally sensitive assessment in under-served communities.

ADHD experience

Carries out comprehensive adult ADHD assessments with structured clinical interviews, developmental history, collateral information and assessment of functional impairment, with careful consideration of differential diagnoses and comorbidities.

Prescribing

Not currently a prescriber — undertaking the University of Bradford Prescribing for Pharmacists programme. Medication is managed by an ADHD Path prescriber.

Areas of expertise

Adult ADHD assessment and diagnostic formulation
Developmental history taking
Differential diagnosis
ADHD psychoeducation
Cardiovascular risk assessment

Assessment approach

Assessment is not a checklist exercise but a careful reconstruction of a patient's history across their whole life, with findings explained in plain language.

Our assessment methodology