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To: Community Affairs, Committee (SEN); s
Subject: sub928Submission to the Inquiry into the National Disability Insurance Scheme Bill 2012 Date: Thursday, 17 January 2013 1:53:09 PM
Please consider this email a formal submission by me to the Senate Standing
Committee on Community Affairs Inquiry into the National Disability Insurance
Scheme Bill 2012.
The current disability system has many problems that need to be addressed.
It doesn’t work for the community of patients that I care for. I believe it is more economical to keep people at home and care for them adequately, than to offer substandard assistance that ultimately leads to health problems, which in turn leads to hospital admission, which increases costs, which overloads the health system, and on, and on, and on.
The main features of the NDIS that will make a difference to the community are:
Ensure support and equipment is available when needed, Better access to education and work opportunities, More employment of people with disability and less reliance on social welfare
The most important services for the NDIS to provide are:
Equipment and home/vehicle modifications, Education support (technology/services/equipment), Employment support
I support the introduction of the NDIS.
I am a nurse. I see the impact of disability on a daily basis.
I agree for my submission to be made public