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Diabetes management supports
Diabetes is a health condition which people manage with help from their doctor and the health system. If you have diabetes, your doctor or diabetes nurse will create a Diabetes Care Plan with you.
The Australian health system provides health services to everyone for illnesses or chronic health conditions. We can only fund diabetes supports if they’re related to your disability. If you have trouble managing your diabetes on your own because of your disability, we may fund NDIS supports to help you. We call these ‘Diabetes management supports’.
Diabetes management supports may include a nurse to identify any disability-related supports you need to follow your Diabetes Care Plan, or a support worker to help you manage your diabetes. For example, to help check your blood sugar levels regularly if you have trouble doing this because of your disability. We may fund a nurse to train your support workers in your diabetes management needs. We may also fund a nurse to help you manage unstable diabetes if you have complex disability support needs.
Note:
- When we say ‘your plan’, we mean your NDIS plan.
- As part of the recent changes to the NDIS laws we are moving towards a new framework for planning. Rules need to be developed for this new framework. We’re working on how and when we’ll introduce these changes.
Until then, the information in this Our Guideline is about our ‘old framework’ for planning, which includes the legislative changes that became operational when the law commenced. All current plans will be known as 'old framework' plans, and we'll continue to develop these until all participants have transitioned to the new framework.