NDIS data that matters

The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) is now releasing infographic-style monthly summary reports, so everyone can see how the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is tracking compared to the same month in the past year. Read on to see how you can access this data, as well as how you can tap into a broader range of NDIS insights.

The NDIS are now sharing a monthly one-page visual snapshot, which provides year-on-year comparisons for the following statistics:

How many participants are in the Scheme
The average annualised level of payment per participant
Overall amounts of NDIS payments to participants. For example the April 2022 report shows that the ‘year to date paid support to participants’ is up 20% from last year.

Other data sources

Beyond these monthly summary reports, the NDIS holds a vast amount of valuable data for health providers. This link will take you to the main data dashboard, and from there you can search through the following data sources:

See how many providers are active each month; broken down into whether this is the provider’s first time or they are a returning provider.
Scroll through category support payments, including related age bands of participants and their prevalence each month.
Review a wide range of participant-led goals and outcome reports.
Use the interactive data table to look at participant, provider, market and utilisation data.
Access market dashboards that capture data such as:

- Participants per provider
- Provider concentration
- Provider growth and shrinkage
- Utilisation
- Choice and control.

More information

Given vast amounts of data can become a little abstract; here are some other ways to bring its relevance back to your role.

See what the NDIS demand is like in the area you work in. Head to the NDIS demand map. This map also includes likely 2023 forecasts for your area (note that it is in BETA mode right now).
Learn more information about any NDIS data sets that you have questions about, by contacting scheme.actuary@ndis.gov.au
Access information for providers on disability related health supports, which includes a section on podiatry, wound and pressure care supports (see pages 5 and 6).
Explore why such data may be relevant for future planning by watching this explainer video. On this page you can download state-based presentations that show the growth curve of providers in your state over a period of years, as well as market data on what types of assistance is being required by Scheme participants. This information is a little out of date, last published in October 2019, but the insights are still useful.
If you have any questions relating to this article, or about the NDIS more broadly, reach out to our advocacy team at advocacy@podiatry.org.au

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