Ms Elish Kelly1, Mrs Kiara Hurt
1Fiona Stanley Fremantle Hospital Group, , Australia
Abstract:
The purpose of the presentation:
Importance of a dedicated inpatient NDIS team in staying across the NDIS legislative changes, resulting in; creation of innovative processes, user-friendly digital report templates, comprehensive education series review, thereby a reduced impact from NDIS legislation changes across a Tertiary Hospital and affiliated sites.
The issue under consideration:
Ongoing fast changes happening within NDIS legislation that are occurring with minimal notice, resulting in reduced funding, stricter eligibility criteria and increased hospital discharge barriers.
Strategies implemented.
– Collaboration with NDIS to work through the legislative changes
– Collating and analysing date to identify themes and proactively find solutions to reduce impact across the organisation.
– Development of process to identify NDIS patients presenting to organisation.
– Patients identified on admission which feeds into a live database for accurate tracking of Length of Stay/outcomes/delays.
– Development of a new Functional Capacity Assessment Template
– With interactive drop-down boxes.
– Prompting within the document to pre-empt NDIS queries and to allow for additional simplified justification for supports.
– Pre-filled sections to outline risk without supports.
– Extended templated home access explanations
– Patient centred capacity building requests to prevent hospital readmission.
– Education review and ‘blitz’
– Education series reviewed and revitalised to reflect the new NDIS legislation
– 48 education sessions completed in 4 months in 2025, across 4 hospital sites.
Conclusion:
– Requires a considered change management approach
– Dedicated inpatient NDIS team is crucial to remain proactive not reactive to the NDIS legislative changes