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Navigating the NDIS: For Participants and Healthcare Professionals

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This article is intended to help healthcare professionals and people living with disability understand, access and navigate The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). As a healthcare professional, your compassion, professionalism and guidance can greatly help to facilitate a patient’s NDIS journey.

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The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a government-led initiative intended to support Australians who are living with intellectual, physical, sensory, cognitive and/or psychosocial disability. Supports offered by the NDIS can range from assistance with daily personal activities, to mobility aids and home modifications, to therapeutic supports

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Hanadi Doumit
03 Sep 2021
it was very helpful and it vital informative
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Sharon Gardiner
13 Sep 2021
Better understanding
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Mary Kumar
16 May 2021
Informative.
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CAROLE QUINN
12 Nov 2022
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Sandra Wood
01 Mar 2023
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It was brief but answered many quest
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Elizabeth Atanasow
17 May 2021
Clarity of NDIS role, learn new information about that insurance
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Carolyne Winskill
22 Aug 2022
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03 Sep 2022
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