About Seen Sooner

Getting an ADHD or autism assessment in the UK should not require hours of research, confusing NHS guidance, and dead-end phone calls. Yet for millions of people, that is exactly what it involves.

NHS waiting lists for ADHD assessment can stretch to five years or more in some areas. Many people are unaware that NHS Right to Choose — a policy that lets patients in England ask their GP to refer them to a private CQC-registered provider at no cost — even exists.

Seen Sooner was created to fix this. Three questions, under two minutes, and you have a personalised shortlist of providers matched to your location, age group, and preferences — ranked by cost-effectiveness and wait time.

The service covers ADHD, Autism (ASD), and combined AuDHD assessments for both adults and children, across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

Our matching engine uses your postcode to detect your UK nation and your nearest Integrated Care Board (ICB) area in England — this determines whether NHS Right to Choose applies and which providers are geographically close to you.

Providers are sourced from the CQC register and cross-referenced with publicly available information on wait times, pricing, age groups, and accepted funding routes. We refresh this data regularly and integrate with the CQC's public API at build time to surface the latest regulatory ratings.

Results are ranked by a value score that weighs cost, wait time, CQC rating, and distance from your postcode — so the most cost-effective and practical option appears first, not the most commercially promoted.