NDIS Practice Standards
Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities
m1-4a.3 Severe dysphagia: participant-involved plan with needs, preferences and escalation
Clause and reference m1-4a.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Each participant needing severe dysphagia management is involved in developing their plan, which records their individual needs and preferences, such as food, fluids, preparation techniques and feeding equipment, and how risks, incidents and emergencies will be managed, including required actions and escalation.
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
- Severe dysphagia management plans with food and fluid textures, techniques and equipment
- Emergency and escalation section for choking and aspiration
- Record of participant input into the plan
What assessors commonly find
- Plan omits feeding equipment and positioning
- No escalation steps for suspected aspiration
What evidence do I need?
For m1-4a.3 Severe dysphagia: participant-involved plan with needs, preferences and escalation, the evidence to bring is: Severe dysphagia management plans with food and fluid textures, techniques and equipment. It sits under Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities and our reference for it is m1-4a.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me severe dysphagia management plans with food and fluid textures, techniques and equipment, 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