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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
