NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: provision of supports
core-19.8 Support planning: preventative health supports in the plan
Clause and reference core-19.8, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Where required, the support plan includes arrangements for proactive support with preventative health, such as access to recommended vaccinations, dental check-ups, comprehensive health assessments and allied health services.
Our wording of the requirement: our statement of what the clause asks, not the instrument verbatim. Source: NDIS Practice Standards on the compliance desk.
The evidence to bring
- Support plans with a preventative health section
- Records of supported vaccination, dental and annual health assessment appointments
- Health appointment tracker or calendar for each participant
- Referrals to allied health services
What assessors commonly find
- No record of an annual health assessment for participants who need support to arrange one
- Preventative health left to families without agreement
What evidence do I need?
For core-19.8 Support planning: preventative health supports in the plan, the evidence to bring is: Support plans with a preventative health section. It sits under Core module: provision of supports and our reference for it is core-19.8. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me support plans with a preventative health section, and tell me who owns it and when it was last reviewed.
That is the question a quality assessor opens with for this requirement. Have the record on the desk and the date it was last reviewed to hand.
Read your own evidence against this clause
Paste your policy or evidence pack and the reading marks, line by line, whether a phrase from this requirement appears and quotes your own words when it does. It is a reading of your text, not a compliance result; a quality assessor decides whether a requirement is met. Read your pack, free See the paid reading