Record equipment and consumables information

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This article provides guidance for a local area coordinator, early childhood coordinator and all NDIA staff (planner, payment officer, internal review officer, complaints officer, participant service officer, access officer, quality officer, technical advisor, SDA officer, NCC officer, provider support) to understand:

• disability related health supports
• consumable products
• when the NDIS would fund consumable products.

Recent updates

July 2023 Update to system steps and language to align with PACE release 1.13.

Before you start

You have:

• read and understood Our Guidelines — Disability-related health supports
• read article, Add disability-related health supports Appendix C – Guide to disability-related Core supports
• read article, Complete personal and environmental circumstances case
• read article, Create Personal and Environmental Circumstances case
• read article, Update informal, community and mainstream supports during a check-in.
• read Conversation Style Guide.

Personal and environmental circumstances — equipment and consumables information

Explain disability-related health supports

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SGP KP Publishing – Record equipment and consumables information

Disability-related health supports help a participant manage a health condition that relates to their disability.

The equipment and consumables questions help identify what supports a participant may need in their plan.

Understand consumable products in a participant’s plan

Consumable products are items a participant uses daily to help them with a condition related to their disability. These can include:

• dysphagia supports for those who have trouble eating, drinking, or swallowing daily
• continence supports such as nappies, pads, liners, bedding, and seating protection, as well as catheter consumables such as tubing and bags
• wound and pressure care supports for those that have slow to heal wounds, and need regular skin, wound, and pressure care.

When will we fund equipment and consumables?

A participant can have some disability-related health supports funded through the healthcare system. These supports may not meet the reasonable and necessary criteria of the NDIS.

You should support the participant to navigate other service systems to get the disability-related health support they need.

Record equipment and consumables information

Ask the person the Equipment and Consumables questions in the Personal and Environmental Circumstances case and record their answer.

Note: Don’t read the response options to the person out loud. Instead, listen carefully to their answers. You may need to select the most appropriate option for each question.

Use your interpersonal skills in a guided conversation to seek answers to each question. Explain to the person we need the right information before we make an eligibility decision.

You must record a response for each mandatory field marked with an asterisk. Then select Next to continue.

Note: The PEC case Steps and questions are dynamic and may change. This will depend on the person’s situation and age, as well as the response options selected for some questions.

Next steps

There are no further steps.

Article topics and case names — internal use only

Topics

This article relates to the following topics:

• Add: t_continence
• Add: t_disabilityrelatedhealthsupports
• Add: t_dysphagia
• Add: t_woundandpressurecare

Case names

You can use this guidance for the:

• Add: dc_case_personalandenvironmentalcircumstances

Version control

Version	Amended by	Brief Description of Change	Status	Date
2.0	EMN960	EL2 review and approval - no feedback from SD and Partners	APPROVED	2023-06-20
2.0		Article ID: 143397597 Description: Added active published article links and labels.