‘Desperate for staff’: the NDIS crisis afflicting regional Australians
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Regional areas are suffering from a lack of providers for people with complex disabilities while behavioural therapists are also ‘swamped’
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Fiona Way of Tamworth in the New South Wales New England region has lived with high complex care needs since a 1999 car accident in Sydney left her with an acquired brain injury and paralysis at the age of 31.
Had she not been in a coma, she would have had one of the best views of the millennium fireworks from her room at Royal North Shore Hospital.