PEG & Tube Feeding on the NDIS: A Participant & Family Guide
PEG and tube feeding on the NDIS: how enteral feeding is funded, who can safely deliver it, and how to find a trained worker to support you at home.
A PEG or feeding tube delivers nutrition, fluids and medication straight into the stomach when eating and drinking by mouth isn't safe or possible. On the NDIS, tube (enteral) feeding is treated as a high-intensity support, which means it should be delivered by a worker who has been trained and assessed for the task, with a nurse behind them. This guide explains what tube feeding involves, what…
What PEG and tube feeding involves
When the NDIS pays, and when the health system does
What the NDIS funds for tube feeding
Who can deliver tube feeding safely
The plan your worker follows
Getting tube feeding into your NDIS plan
Finding and checking a worker on Novida
Frequently asked questions
What is PEG or tube feeding?
A PEG (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) or feeding tube delivers nutrition, fluids and medication straight into the stomach when eating and drinking by mouth isn't safe or possible. Enteral feeding is the general term. It's a routine part of daily life for many people, but it carries real…
Does the NDIS or the health system pay for tube feeding?
The NDIS funds the ongoing, disability-related support to run feeds safely at home: trained worker time, consumables, and often the formula and pump. The health system handles the medical side, such as inserting or replacing the tube and treating complications. The line is everyday disability…
Who can deliver tube feeding safely?
A support worker can deliver tube feeds if they've been trained and assessed as competent for your specific set-up, working under registered-nurse oversight and following your task-specific plan. Tube feeding is a high-intensity support, so competency for your exact tube and routine, not general…
What does the NDIS fund for tube feeding?
It can fund the trained worker time (from Core, at the high-intensity rate), everyday consumables like giving sets and syringes, the feeding pump and pole as assistive technology, and often the formula as consumables on a dietitian's advice, plus nursing oversight and worker training.
How do I get tube feeding into my NDIS plan?
Bring a clinician letter confirming the need, a task-specific feeding plan, and a dietitian's recommendation for formula. Ask for worker time in Core, consumables and formula as consumables, and the pump as assistive technology, plus funding for nurse oversight and training, so every part is…
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