NDIS nursing and disability support, delivered at home.

We provide nurse-led continence assessments, community nursing, personal care and daily support, and dementia, palliative and respite care across Melbourne and Geelong. Community nursing covers catheter care, wound management, medication management, bowel and stoma care, diabetes management and overnight nursing. Support services cover domestic assistance, social and community participation, companion care and hospital-to-home support. Every clinical service is delivered by an AHPRA-registered nurse.

Community nursing covers clinical tasks that must be performed or supervised by a registered nurse, things like wound care, catheter management, medication administration and enteral feeding, funded under NDIS item 0114. Personal care covers non-clinical help with daily living, like showering, dressing, grooming and meal preparation, delivered by support workers and funded under NDIS item 0107. Plenty of participants receive both.

Yes, we do. We're registered for high intensity daily personal activities under group 0104, which call for advanced clinical training, and our registered nurses deliver them. Our registration covers complex wound management, urinary catheter management (in-dwelling, in-out and suprapubic), complex bowel care, enteral feeding, tracheostomy and ventilator management, subcutaneous injections and severe dysphagia management.

Yes, it does. Nursing care delivered in a participant's home is funded under NDIS support item 0114, Community Nursing Care, and it's available whether your plan is self-managed, plan-managed or NDIA-managed. We bill at current NDIS price limits, so if the funding's in the right category, there's no out-of-pocket cost.

To check whether your plan includes this funding, call us on 0405 468 427.

An NDIS continence assessment is funded under Capacity Building, Improved Daily Living, and billed at current NDIS price limits. If that funding's available in your plan, you pay nothing out of pocket. We invoice against the relevant support item rather than charging you directly.

For a quote against your specific plan, call us on 0405 468 427.

For most people there is nothing to pay out of pocket, because every visit is billed to your plan at NDIS price limits. Weekend and evening visits have higher NDIS rates, so they use your funding a little faster, and we'll show you the difference before you book. If you cancel with less than 2 clear business days' notice, the NDIS allows us to claim the visit from your plan, but we'd always rather reschedule, so call us as early as you can.

No, you don't. A GP referral isn't required for NDIS-funded services. If you have an active NDIS plan with the relevant support category, you can contact us directly. Support coordinators, plan managers and family members can also refer someone without a GP being involved at all.

You can refer a client by phone on 0405 468 427, by email to info@healthfocusnursing.com.au, or through the referral form on our website. We acknowledge every referral within one business day, provide a service agreement within 48 hours, and keep you updated with progress for as long as the engagement runs.

Of course. A call or message costs nothing, doesn't commit you to anything, and you'll speak with someone who understands the NDIS. Send us your suburb and a phone number, and we'll call you back within one business day.

There's no waitlist, and we respond to every enquiry within one business day. Referrals from support coordinators are acknowledged just as quickly, and we issue service agreements within 48 hours. From there, scheduling depends on what you need and when you're free, and we'll always try to accommodate anything urgent.

To ask about availability this week, call us on 0405 468 427.

Yes. We take discharge referrals from hospital social workers, discharge planners and ward nurses across Western Health, Mercy Health and Barwon Health, as well as from families directly. If your NDIS plan already includes community nursing, we can usually have a registered nurse at your home within 2 business days of the referral, and sooner for wound or catheter care that can't wait. Ask the ward to call us on 0405 468 427 before you're discharged, and we'll line up the first visit with them.

Your nurse sends the written report within 5 business days of the home visit, and we'll send a copy to your support coordinator or planner if you ask us to. The report recommends the products and the funding category they fit, which is usually Consumables in your Core Supports budget. Products then come from your chosen supplier, so the time to delivery depends on them, and we can help you set that up on the day of the visit.

Yes, we are. Health Focus Nursing (trading name of THF Melbourne Pty Ltd) holds NDIS Organisation ID 4050159566, registered across eight support classes, including community nursing care and high intensity daily personal activities.

Yes, we can. We work to match participants with workers who speak their preferred language, and we'll ask about language needs at the very first consultation so the right person is rostered from day one.

Yes. Every support worker holds a current NDIS Worker Screening Check, and every nurse is registered with AHPRA.

We visit participants across metropolitan Melbourne and the Geelong region. Melbourne coverage includes the Maribyrnong, Brimbank, Melton, Hobsons Bay, Wyndham, Moonee Valley, Hume and Merri-Bek council areas, taking in suburbs such as Footscray, Sunshine, Werribee, Caroline Springs, Yarraville, St Albans, Williamstown, Brunswick and Preston. Geelong coverage includes Geelong, Geelong West, Newtown, Belmont, Highton, Corio and surrounding suburbs.