Advisory Committee for the COVID-19 Response for People with Disability

Role

The committee provides expert advice on the health care needs of people with disability, their families and the disability service sector. This includes access to COVID-19 screening, prevention and health care.

This advice helped to develop the Management and Operational Plan for COVID-19 for People with Disability. The committee is overseeing the plan’s implementation.

Management and Operational Plan for People with Disability

The Australian Health Sector Emergency Response Plan for Novel Coronavirus guides the Australian health sector response. This management and operational plan focuses on people with disability. An Easy Read version is also available.

Members

The committee includes experts from various backgrounds including:

people with lived experience
disability organisations
the disability service sector
the research sector
the health care sector, including medical practitioners, allied health professionals and nursing
Australian Government officials
state and territory government officials

Representatives

Allied Health Professions Australia
Australian Association of Developmental Disability Medicine
Australian Government Department of Social Services
Australian Human Rights Commission
Council for Intellectual Disability
Department of Developmental Disability Psychiatry, University of New South Wales
First Peoples Disability Network
Get Skilled Access
Inclusion Australia
Melbourne Disability Institute, University of Melbourne
National Disability Insurance Agency
NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
Northcott
Office for Disability ACT
People with Disability Australia
people with lived experiences of being a carer
Victorian Disability Advisory Council

Meetings

The committee regularly to discuss COVID-19 issues relevant to people with disability. The committee has also participated in several Roundtable discussions with a broader range of stakeholders across the disability sector.

Communiques

Advisory Committee on Health Emergency Response to Coronavirus (COVID-19) for People with Disability – Communiques

This collection is a list of the meeting communiques for the Advisory Committee on Health Emergency Response to Coronavirus (COVID-19) for People with Disability, and roundtables on COVID-19 and the particular risks for people with disability.

Related committees or groups

The committee reports to the Chief Medical Officer, and regularly informs the:

Find out more

Read our coronavirus (COVID-19) advice for people with disability.

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