What do you think are important priorities for the National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health?
People with intellectual disability live with a greater risk of dying from preventable disease or illness. One of the actions we can take to improve health outcomes for people with intellectual disabilities is through consultations with the people and health professionals who are directly involved in intellectual disability health care.
The National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health is running a survey to inform their work plans. The survey is open for submissions until Monday 24 June 2024.
'The Disability Royal Commission showed us that people with intellectual disability have much poorer health and don’t always get the health care that they deserve,' says Troy Hakala, Disability Service Development — Senior Social Worker at Metro South Health.
'The new National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health will be vital to address these inequities.'
Sharing your insights and experiences through this survey will help support the delivery of the Australian government’s National Roadmap for Improving the Health of People with Intellectual Disability .
How to participate in the survey
You can access the survey online.
The survey is open to all people and organisations, including:
- health and allied health professionals
- people with intellectual disability
- supporters of people with intellectual disability
- disability professionals
- First Nations people and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
If you find it hard to do online surveys, you can share your views through a phone call or focus group.
Please email nceidh@unsw.edu.au or call 02 9348 2265 if you want to do a phone call or focus group.
About the National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health
The National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health was designed to ensure people with intellectual disability have improved access to quality, timely and comprehensive health care.
Read more about the Centre and its aims in the Hon Gend Kearney MP, Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care's media release: www.health.gov.au/ministers/the-hon-ged-kearney-mp/media/national-centre-to-improve-health-outcomes-for-people-with-intellectual-disability.