Mark Butler has insisted “choice and control” remained the core philosophy of the NDIS, despite sweeping cuts.
“What I have announced today, though, is a move away from the ‘let it rip’ market that, I think, has built up over the last 10 years where there’s very little oversight or line of sight about the quality and the qualifications of providers,” the health minster said.
Butler said providers should have to apply and demonstrate their compliance with performance standards.
“Then from that panel, yes, people can choose,” he said.
“We’re not going to say to individual participants, ‘you have to deal with this provider’. There will be a panel. There will be still choice and control, but it won’t be this free-for-all market that has developed over the last 10 years and is serving no one’s interest.”
