Introduction to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a national insurance scheme that is designed to provide people who have permanent and significant disability with the reasonable and necessary supports they need to:
- build and maintain function to optimise independence
- exercise choice, control and self-determination
- participate in the social and economic life of their communities.
The scheme focuses on long-term outcomes, and provides ‘front loaded’ funding to optimise opportunities, improve quality of life and potentially decrease lifetime healthcare costs.
Contact the NDIS through the NDIS website or phone 1800 800 110. NDIS booklets and factsheets, including resources for general practitioners and other health professionals, are available.
The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) is the body that administers the NDIS.
The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (NDIS Commission) [URL] is the agency responsible for quality of service delivery, regulating NDIS providers, and protecting people with disabilities from abuse, neglect, restraint and seclusion.