Áine speaks to Susi Tegen, CEO of the National Rural Health Alliance about the proposed changes to the NDIS travel allowance which will be introduced on 1st July 2025. Service providers and people living with a disability in rural, regional and remote communities have expressed serious concerns around the potential impacts to the delivery of essential support services in their communities which already suffer from inequity in health care provision; a lack of access to local services and long travel times to seek appropriate health and disability care.“Under the proposed changes, providers will face limits on the travel they can claim when supporting participants in harder-to-reach areas.  This poses a major threat to cliniciansworking in rural Australia [who are] assisting people with disability, where long-distance travel is a necessity, not a choice”.

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