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Add or update disability-related health supports

Appendix C – Guide to capital supports

This article provides guidance for a planner to understand:

  • capital supports for disability-related health needs.

Recent updates

October 2023 Current guidance.

Before you start

You have read and understood relevant guidance from:

  • Our Guideline – Disability-related health supports (external)
  • Our Guideline – Continence (external)
  • Our Guideline – Diabetes management supports (external)
  • Our Guideline – Dysphagia supports (external)
  • Our Guideline – Epilepsy supports (external)
  • Our Guideline – Nutrition supports including meal preparation (external)
  • Our Guideline – Podiatry and foot care supports (external)
  • Our Guideline – Wound and pressure care supports (external)
  • Our Guideline – Creating your plan (external)
  • Our Guideline – Justice system (external)
  • Our Guideline – Plan reviews (external)
  • article Guide – Respiratory supports.

You have also read and understood articles:

  • Add or update disability-related health supports and meal preparation supports
  • Calculate disability-related health supports and meal preparation supports

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  • Add or update disability-related health supports Appendix A – Guide to core supports
  • Add or update disability-related health supports Appendix B – Guide to capacity building supports.

You have:

  • checked if the disability-related health support needs advice from the Technical Advisory Branch (TAB) or Children’s Taskforce (CT)
  • received TAB or CT advice, if needed, before you include the disability-related health support in the participant’s plan.

Refer to TAB intranet page Requesting Advice.

Use the relevant disability-related health support (DRHS) Our Guideline and article Add or update disability-related health supports and meal preparation supports to work out if capital supports meet the NDIS funding criteria.

The list below outlines the broad type of support and the estimated cost for each of the relevant support categories to include in the participant’s plan.

Wound and pressure care

Assistive technology (AT)

Purchase or lease of pressure-support AT over $1500 per item, including:

  • pressure cushions
  • mattress
  • air-filled garments and compression units for managing circulation problems and lymphoedema
  • lymphoedema machine if needed for maintenance
  • negative pressure wound therapy including vacuum assisted closure (VAC).

General

Assistive Technology

We may fund DRHS for air conditioning or heating if the participant has a disability that affects their ability to regulate their body temperature. You must create a technical advice case for any

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request for air conditioning or heating. Refer to article Mandatory and non-mandatory technical advice.

Next steps

  1. Add disability-related health supports to the participant plan, refer to article Add or update disability-related health supports and meal preparation supports.

Article topics and case names – internal use only

User roles

  • Add: dc_users_plannerdelegate

Topics

This article relates to the following topics:

  • t_continence
  • t_diabetes
  • t_disabilityrelatedhealthsupports
  • t_dysphagia
  • t_epilepsy
  • t_motorneuronedisease
  • t_nutrition
  • t_podiatryandfootcare
  • t_respiratorysupports
  • t_therapysupports
  • t_woundandpressurecare

Case names

You can use this guidance for the:

  • dc_case_technicaladvice

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1.1 MGC723 Article aligned to SOP Create or update a knowledge article during CI. Changes also applied following consultation with TAB during amendments of SOP.
Including:
  • update to guidance for training for delegated disability-related health support tasks to cover all skill areas and support staff.
  • new before you start and next steps sections.
  • Aligning to PACE system steps and language
  • renamed from Add or update disability-related health supports Appendix C - Core supports to Add or update disability-related health supports Appendix C – Guide to capital supports. | DRAFT | 2023-09-14 | | 1.2 | BTM847 | Peer review | DRAFT | 2023-09-21 | | 1.3 | MGC723 | Action peer review | DRAFT | 2023-09-22 | | 1.4 | CTM829 | EL1 review | DRAFT | 2023-09-22 | | 1.5 | JS0082 | Class 1 review to progress to BiLs for endorsement | DRAFT | 2023-09-25 | | 1.6 | MGC723 | Collate BIL feedback | DRAFT | 2023-10-06 | | 1.7 | MGC723 | Action feedback | DRAFT | 2023-10-06 |

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