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Stephanie Searle

Jul 16, 2026

24:15
And Steph, what things about the NDIS health interface that do you believe is really important that doctors should understand better?
24:21
better?Yeah, I think the NDIS can be a really complicated system for most people to navigate, including us as healthcare workers.
24:29
And there, there's almost two very distinct categories.
24:33
The NDIS is a system that was set up to be supporting people's permanent lifelong disability.
24:40
The system isn't about treatment or trying to change a person's disability, but supporting the care needs that exist around that.
24:48
And obviously, our health system is very much set up with the intent that we are treating people's health and trying to address any short-term medical conditions that may come up and be reversible, as opposed to that NDIS space that's permanent lifelong.
25:05
I think as, as doctors, people can often be presented with various forms and paperwork that goes with, with the NDIS, and if in particular it's something around confirmation of a person's disability or an access request form, for example, which might be used to support a person gaining access to the NDIS as a first port of call, it's really important that we don't use medicalized language in any of those reports that are going to the NDIS.

14 MINS LATER

39:36
I think Steph is actually really well-placed to answer this one as an OT.

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