Disability
Tightened eligibility and cuts to plans: what the NDIS changes mean for participants
In sweeping reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) announced today, the government will cut 160,000 participants from the scheme over the next four years and reduce funding for the average plan by A$5,000 in the next two years.
NDIS reforms aim to make the scheme fairer. But we’ve found the groups struggling to gain access
When the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was established in 2013, one of its driving aims was to make disability services and support systems fairer.
The entwinement of social determinants of health, the social model of disability and the Disability Royal Commission
The medical profession must understand and addresses the social influences on the lives of people with disability in order to improve the health, wellbeing and lives of people with disability.
Language matters when talking about diabetes
Our words — the way we speak, and are spoken to, what we read, and what we write — create our reality. The words and phrases used in relation to diabetes influence how people with diabetes think about themselves, and how society views people living with diabetes.
How will the response to the Disability Royal Commission’s recommendations impact people with disability?
With complex interplay between health and other aspects of life, it remains to be seen how the Disability Royal Commission’s work will impact the health of Australians with disability.
Disability awareness improves health care
Doctors are in the perfect position to be forerunners when integrating disability awareness into health care. Access for all: disability awareness for health providers is the perfect platform to instigate this change.
The Australian Government’s first response to the Disability Royal Commission
After 4.5 years of investigation, the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability delivered their final report to the Australian Government in September 2023. Volume 6, section 4 outlined health care and treatment. On 31 July 2024, the Australian and joint governments released their first response to the DRC final report.
