New Report Highlights NDIS Gaps for People With Severe Mental Illness
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- Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 April 2018 15:47
A new report has warned that the transition to the National Disability Insurance Scheme will leave many people with psychosocial disability without appropriate mental health support.
The Mind the Gap report, compiled by the University of Sydney and Community Mental Health Australia, details the experiences of consumers, providers and advocacy groups in the mental health sector.
The National Insurance Disability Agency (NDIA) has estimated the full roll out of the scheme in 2019-20 will support only 64,000 people with primary psychosocial disability. The report estimates that there are 690,000 Australians living with severe mental health issues.
This means up to 91 per cent of people with severe mental illness would have to rely on non-NDIS community mental health services to support them.
