NDIS Practice Standards
Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities
m1-5.1 Tracheostomy: participant-involved plan, practitioner review, escalation
Clause and reference m1-5.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Each participant is involved in assessing and developing the plan for their tracheostomy suctioning and management; with consent, an appropriately qualified health practitioner reviews their health status regularly and in good time; and the plan sets out how risks, incidents and emergencies are 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
- Tracheostomy management plan covering suctioning, tube changes and stoma care
- Emergency tube dislodgement or blockage procedure for the participant
- Practitioner review records
- Equipment check logs such as suction units and spare tubes
What assessors commonly find
- No emergency spare tube or equipment checks recorded
- Plan not updated after a practitioner review
What evidence do I need?
For m1-5.1 Tracheostomy: participant-involved plan, practitioner review, escalation, the evidence to bring is: Tracheostomy management plan covering suctioning, tube changes and stoma care. It sits under Module 1: High intensity daily personal activities and our reference for it is m1-5.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me tracheostomy management plan covering suctioning, tube changes and stoma care, 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