Powerless facing the wave of change: the lived experience of providing services in rural areas under the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

CONCLUSION: These findings offer insights into the particular challenges for rural clinicians in providing services under the NDIS. While there is improved funding support for people with a disability, this places additional pressure on rural clinicians who are already likely to be working at or beyond their workload capacity. Issues with recruitment and retention of new clinicians into rural and remote areas appear to be ongoing, which was identified as compounding the impact of the NDIS on existing service providers. Supporting the rural and remote workforce appears critical to avoid de-registration of existing NDIS service providers. PMID: 31554407 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Rural and Remote Health - Category: Rural Health Tags: Rural Remote Health Source Type: research