Experts react to NDIS review findings
UTS Professor Indigenous Disability Health and Wellbeing Scott Avery joins experts giving their initial thoughts about plans to reform the NDIS and make it sustainable.
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Findings from an extensive review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) have been released with ideas on how to transform it. Led by co-chairs Bruce Bonyhady and Lisa Paul, the review heard from around 10,000 people before making 26 recommendations with 139 supporting actions. Presenting their findings, co-chairs wrote:
We must return to the principle that NDIS eligibility is based first and foremost on functional impairment rather than medical diagnosis.
The review identified challenges including greater than expected growth and unclear criteria for reasonable and necessary supports, “which create complexity, stress, inconsistency and mistrust”.
Key recommendations include:
- National Cabinet to jointly design and fund foundational disability support outside the NDIS
- navigators to help participants get the services they need
- providers to be registered and compliant with new standards
- needs assessments to gauge the impact of disability rather than lists of diagnoses for access
- more consistent housing supports for people with disability
- disability support access for older Australians.
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