‘Robo-planning’ will ‘blow-up’ NDIS: key architect. By Denham Sadler, InnovationAus

During April 2021, I was interviewed a number of times about the (then) government’s proposal to introduce the highly risky proposal of ‘Independent Assessments’ into the NDIS - a proposal which was rejected by health advocates across the board, and eventually rejected by the Australian State and Territory Governments. InnovationAus also interviewed Professor Bruce Bonyhady for this article.

From my commentary in the article:

‘The [independent assessments] go to the agency, which looks at these checkboxes and then robo-generate a plan. A lot of peoples’ circumstances aren’t being taken into account,’ Ms Johnson told InnovationAus.

“What this will mean is that people won’t get the opportunity to provide additional information. The original assessment can’t be reviewed, people will get a plan or a budget that does not meet their needs and people will fear for their health and wellbeing.”

Thank you InnovationAus for carrying this story. Read online here. PDF of the article here.