26/01/2026
For neurodivergent and complex patients, especially those on ADHD medication, there’s a lot of monitoring involved.
Dr Nick Walsh, consultant psychiatrist, needs to know what’s changed in patient NHS records. With live access to comprehensive information, he can check before prescribing every time, without going back to the GP practice for another summary - which also means fewer admin requests landing on already very busy GP teams.
He says, “You might be prescribing for a patient, seeing someone for six months and writing to the GP about them - how else do you know if the GP summary has changed unless you’re requesting a copy of it every month? The patient will tell you, but ORB Connect is live, so you can see if anything changes and you can just check it each time. So, it’s safer as well.
It’s also much more comprehensive, usually. There are different layers of access in terms of what the GP practices send. So not everything is always available, but for a lot of people, you can see consultations with the GP and all the test results and letters from other specialists.”