What's the NDIS Support Coordinators Role for INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME (Ventilation/Tracheostomy)?

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What's the NDIS Support Coordinators Role for INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME (Ventilation/Tracheostomy)?

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Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from Intensive Care at Home, where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies, and where we also provide tailor-made solutions for hospitals and intensive care units whilst providing quality services for long-term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies and medically complex patients at home, including home TPN.

So, in today’s blog post, I want to talk about, “What role NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) support coordinators or specialist support coordinators play with Intensive Care at Home clients, or also what role NDIS support coordinators or specialist support coordinators play when it comes to long-term ventilation with tracheostomy for adults and children?” So, let’s break this down today because with us working in the NDIS space in Australia, we work with a number of NDIS support coordinators and we talk to a lot of NDIS support coordinators, or in some instances NDIS specialist support coordinators. As a matter of fact, given that our NDIS participants are medically complex, generally speaking, with a high degree of disability, we often work with specialist NDIS support coordinator. So, let’s get to the nitty gritty of it.

Obviously, for anyone watching this, the NDIS is the National Disability Insurance agency in Australia. We, as a service, operate all around Australia with NDIS participants, but also with other funding schemes, of course.

So, one thing has become apparent when we talk to NDIS support coordinators, they don’t even know that the NDIS is funding nursing care. As a matter of fact, they’re funding specialist nursing care like they do with Intensive Care at Home. We send intensive care nurses into the home predominantly for long-term ventilation and tracheostomy, but also for clients or non-invasive ventilation, or for clients that are not ventilated, but have a tracheostomy. We provide home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition), which is IV or intravenous nutrition. It’s all NDIS funded as well as it’s funded through other often government bodies, or private health insurance, or hospitals directly.

Anyway, the purpose of this video is to not only educate NDIS support coordinators or especially support coordinators, but also to educate families or NDIS participants that funding is available through the NDIS for intensive home care nursing. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be in business. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be standing here making this video.

So, a lot of NDIS support coordinators unfortunately don’t have a clinical background, and they often don’t understand the advocacy process as well that needs to go in to getting the 24-hour nursing care for someone on a ventilator with a tracheostomy, whether they’re an adult or a child.

Now, before I go deeper into the subject, there’s also the issue of what does the Department of Health do? Is it health versus disability? Both is playing a role, and as you may well be aware, the state governments in Australia, as well as the federal governments, have the so-called COAG (Council of Australian Governments) agreement where the NDIS is paying for parts of the healthcare sector and vice versa, from what I understand, anyway. So, the notion that the NDIS should not be paying for any healthcare related issues is not accurate because of, once again, the COAG agreement between the states and the federal government.

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