{"id":429360,"date":"2026-02-16T22:39:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429360\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T22:39:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:39:25","slug":"diagnose-fast-to-cut-autism-suicide-risk-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429360\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnose fast to cut autism suicide risk &#8211; report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Moseley&#8217;s previous research identified the major driving factors behind a higher suicide risk included stigma faced by autistic people and being missed for diagnosis in childhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Negative encounters in healthcare&#8221; also emerged as contributing to suicide risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A major theme from participants was the need to improve autism diagnostic services, ensuring that autistic people not diagnosed in childhood are assessed accurately, quickly and with sensitive post-diagnostic care,&#8221; Dr Mosley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report also called for inequalities faced by autistic people in education, employment and healthcare to be tackled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said &#8220;appropriate support in the community&#8221; was needed to improve inclusion of autistic people within society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last month Health Secretary Wes Streeting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5y229z8m3mo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">admitted the NHS was &#8220;falling short&#8221;<\/a> on meeting demand for adult autism and ADHD diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Streeting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ce8q26q2r75o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched an independent review<\/a> last year into rising demand for mental health, ADHD and autism services in England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Moseley&#8217;s previous research identified the major driving factors behind a higher suicide risk included stigma faced by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-429360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}