The National Centre is advocating to the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission about a review of the NDIS Standards and Quality Indicators. These standards and indicators help NDIS providers to assess their performance and NDIS participants to know what service they should expect from NDIS providers.

The NDIS Commission has followed the National Roadmap for Improving the Health of People with Intellectual Disability and made many changes to the Standards and Indicators. We think that they could be improved more in some areas.

We are asking for the following changes to the Standards:

1. That NDIS disability support needs to include support for participants to maintain healthy lifestyles including diet, exercise, smoking and use of drugs and alcohol.
    
2. That the Standards give clear responsibility to disability support services to work with hospitals before and during admission to meet the disability support needs of participants while they are in hospital.
    
3. That NDIS providers support participants who may have underlying health conditions to have comprehensive health assessments and for the providers to work with medical practitioners who are prescribing psychotropic medication.
    
4. Support workers need to be active in linking participants with complex physical or mental health needs to the right health professionals to ensure that all their needs are met.

Read our submission. Not in plain English.