{
  "id": 9707277,
  "title": "Two-year NHS waiting times reveal system’s struggle with rise in ADHD and autism awareness",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/two-year-nhs-waiting-times-reveal-systems-struggle-with-rise-in-adhd",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-25T05:00:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Health",
    "slug": "guardian-health",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/25/two-year-nhs-waiting-times-reveal-struggle-rise-adhd-autism-awareness"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "NHS assessment bottlenecks have knock-on effects, leading to delays in medical help and lack of access to specialist support That NHS boards have imposed minimum two-year waiting times for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism assessments shows a health service struggling to deal with the consequences of huge changes in understanding of and social attitudes to these conditions.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}