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Wound and pressure care supports
The Australian health system provides treatment of wounds, including wound management to everyone. We can only fund wound and pressure care supports if they're related to your disability. We may fund these NDIS supports if your disability means you can’t monitor or manage your wound or pressure care on your own. Or, if your wounds are caused by your disability.
Wound and pressure care supports can include funding to help develop and carry out a wound and pressure care plan. They can include equipment to prevent pressure areas or wounds occurring or products to help manage wounds like bandages. We may also fund support workers and their training to help you manage your wounds if you can’t do this on your own.
Note:
- When we say ‘your plan’ we mean your NDIS plan.
- As part of the recent changes to the NDIS laws we're 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 will continue to develop these until all participants have transitioned to the new framework.