The 2024/2025 NDIS Pricing Review has made some key recommendations that will impact NextSense and our sector more broadly from 1 July 2025. These recommendations, which have been accepted, include the following key impacts to NextSense: a 50% cut to the amount claimable for travel to deliver home and community-based therapy services; a $10 per hour cut to the agreed price for physiotherapy services; a $10 per hour increase to the agreed price for psychology services; and no increase to the hourly rate for all other therapies.

We share the concerns expressed in the sector about the latest NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits. We also want to be clear that we will continue to provide high-quality services to all those who need us. Our wide range of experienced therapists, including physiotherapists, psychologists, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, orthoptists, audiologists, Teachers of the Deaf, and Teachers of Vision will continue to provide best-practice care as they have always done.

We will monitor the ongoing impact of changes such as reduced rates for physiotherapy and travel to home appointments and appointments in community or education settings. And we will endeavour to work with the NDIS to better support evidence-based therapies such as intervention for children in their home or community environments.

Working with families in their own environment means that children who need it can receive true wraparound support, where families can continue the work that we do in scheduled appointments to maximise their child’s potential. This is critically important for children’s development and their ability to progress and meet their milestones and goals.

As a leading provider with specialist insights and expertise we believe we have an important role to play in co-designing an NDIS that is sustainable and recognises client-first quality services. We hope to be able to work with our peers in the disability services sector and with the NDIS leadership on these important conversations moving forward.

The current one-size-fits-all approach to NDIS service funding puts quality specialist providers at a disadvantage and does not support the long-term sustainability of the sector. It will make us even more reliant on the generous philanthropic support we receive.

Future pricing structures should recognise registered providers who deliver complex, specialist care so participants get the choice and control the NDIS wants to provide.