Record information – the Care and Needs Scale

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Table of Contents

• Recent updates … 4
• Before you start … 5
• Understand and record the Care and Needs Scale … 6
• Next steps … 7

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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 the Care and Needs Scale
• record information from the Care and Needs Scale.

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Recent updates

July 2023

Updated to align with current steps in PACE.

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2 Before you start

You have:

• read Our Guidelines – applying to the NDIS
• read article Understand functional capacity assessments
• read article Create a new functional capacity assessment case.

3 Understand and record the Care and Needs Scale

We use the care and needs scale for people older than 16 years with traumatic brain injury. The scale has 8 categories to measure the support level a person needs. An allied health professional completes the assessment. You enter the assessment score in PACE.

Record the Care and Needs Scale information

To record a Care and Needs Scale assessment, at the Select Tools step in the Functional Capacity Assessment:

1. Select No to Carry out a new assessment.
2. Select Yes to Manually enter scores.
3. Select The Care and Needs Scale (CANS).
4. Select Next.
5. Enter Assessment completion date.
6. Select Score or rating.
7. Select Next.
8. Check the Confirmation details.
9. Select Done.

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Next steps

There are no further steps.

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