APA NDIS Campaign

APA NDIS Campaign

The Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) is appalled by the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s (NDIS) decision to lower price limits for physiotherapy supports, which ignores five years of price freezes and ongoing pressures of rising operational costs.

This decision will diminish access to critical care for many of Australia’s most vulnerable people, creating unsustainable pressure on physiotherapists providing support under the NDIS. 

The APA is working with other allied health organisation around Australia to implore the government to reconsider this decision and avoid creating a workforce crisis that will severely impact the availability of services to NDIS participants.  

The APA urges the NDIA to reverse this decision and engage in meaningful consultation.

 

The Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) is appalled by the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s (NDIS) decision to lower price limits for physiotherapy supports, which ignores five years of price freezes and ongoing pressures of rising operational costs.

This decision will diminish access to critical care for many of Australia’s most vulnerable people, creating unsustainable pressure on physiotherapists providing support under the NDIS. 

The APA is working with other allied health organisation around Australia to implore the government to reconsider this decision and avoid creating a workforce crisis that will severely impact the availability of services to NDIS participants.  

The APA urges the NDIA to reverse this decision and engage in meaningful consultation.

 

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Talking Points 

  • State your name and where you live. 

  • Provide a short one to two sentence background about your experience as a NDIS participant or physiotherapist. 

 
Outline the problem in your own words 

  • NDIS participants are facing the removal of critical physiotherapy care as the new pricing limits create an unviable practice model. Physiotherapists are already struggling to deliver safe, person-centred care within the current pricing constraints, this decision threatens the viability of services. 

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Talking Points 

  • State your name and where you live. 

  • Provide a short one to two sentence background about your experience as a NDIS participant or physiotherapist. 

 
Outline the problem in your own words 

  • NDIS participants are facing the removal of critical physiotherapy care as the new pricing limits create an unviable practice model. Physiotherapists are already struggling to deliver safe, person-centred care within the current pricing constraints, this decision threatens the viability of services. 

  • Physiotherapy is not an optional service, or a cost to cut. Physiotherapists play a vital role in supporting people with disability to maintain and enhance independence, and improve quality of life. It’s an investment in preventing functional decline. Keeping people mobile keeps them out of hospital and supporting their independence reduces the need for high-cost care in the longer term. 

  • Rural and regional NDIS physiotherapists will suffer greatly from the new removal of regional loadings, with local practices inevitably shutting their doors due to lack of funding.  

  • People with disabilities throughout Australia, particularly in rural and regional areas will face a significant decline in health and quality of life. 

  • Other public health systems that are already overloaded will face the brunt of this workforce crisis, with NDIS participants left with no choice but to visit emergency departments to get the care they need.  

  • Physiotherapists will be forced to make heartbreaking decisions: take on financial losses, limit services, or leave the NDIS altogether. 

  • NDIS participants face human rights crises, as the new pricing limitations will prevent them from getting the critical care they need to live abundant and fulfilling lives.  

 
Share the solution 

  • The NDIA must reverse this pricing decision.  

  • In future, decisions regarding physiotherapy funding and pricing should be made in consultation with physiotherapists to ensure the workforce and its vulnerable patients have a voice and appropriate methodology is reflected.  

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