NDIS PPE Request

Overview

The Australian Government has a strategic reserve of vital drugs, vaccines, antidotes and protective equipment for use in national health emergencies.

As Australia is moving towards COVID normal, and with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) readily available, National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) self-managing participants and providers should first source appropriate PPE from commercial suppliers. 

What is a Commercial Supplier?

A commercial supplier may be wholesale PPE suppliers and any retail stockists of PPE such as Chemists and Trade/Hardware chains.

More information regarding PPE is available on the NDIS website.

• for providers - Connecting with and helping participants and
• for self-managed participants – COVID-19 information and support. 

Who can access emergency PPE from the National Medical Stockpile (NMS)?

In the unlikely event that NDIS providers and self-managing participants are unable to source PPE from commercial suppliers, an application for a 7-day emergency supply from the NMS can be submitted.

Eligibility criteria that must be met for emergency PPE supply is an NDIS provider or a self-managing participant who:

• cannot access PPE through commercial suppliers, and
• the Australian Government or State or Territory Government have issued a health directive for workers to wear PPE, and
• they receive or deliver personal care or activities that require close physical contact, where:
  • the participant has a confirmed case of COVID-19, and
  • there is an immediate threat to the continuity of safe quality care due to a lack of access to PPE supplies, and
  • there is a clinical need for PPE.

Should providers or participants be approved for an emergency supply, they should continue to source adequate supply to meet their long term needs through a commercial supplier. Providers and participants are to use their own supply of PPE first.