UC Physio

25/07/2025

Happy Friday! Here’s a few words of advice from your favourite physios🤓🫀🦾

09/07/2025

The pressure is building

29/06/2025

Stop the cuts, fix the freeze. NDIS cuts to allied health start tomorrow 1st July. It’s clear the Labor Government and the NDIA don’t care.
They say these cuts make the NDIS fairer. We know that’s not true for Participants.
But they are justifying these cuts with lies, mistakes, inaccurate data…And they know it’s wrong, and they’re doing it anyway. That doesn’t sound fair. It’s not a good look.
Remember to sign the petition

27/06/2025

What’s All the Fuss About?
Here’s the truth: the NDIA has made a decision that fundamentally undervalues the work of therapists in paediatrics and disability. Using flawed data and a complete lack of understanding about the skills, time, and cost involved, they’ve slashed therapy prices in the 2025–26 Price Guide — and it’s nothing short of insulting.
Let’s be clear: working in paediatric or disability therapy is not general therapy. It requires advanced skills, emotional labour, and specialised training — often at higher costs to providers. Yet the NDIA has based its pricing model on irrelevant Medicare, WorkCover, and Private Health Insurance data that has no bearing on the realities of NDIS therapy.
To make matters worse — the NDIA simply guesstimated the minutes of therapy provided under these schemes and drastically underestimated the true cost of each session. Their inaccurate assumptions have created a pricing structure that fails to reflect the real financial and professional demands of delivering quality care.
This isn’t just bad news for NDIS participants and therapists — it’s a dangerous precedent for the entire allied health sector. Other third parties will now look at this incorrect reporting and base their own expected fees and projections on these flawed numbers. The sector cannot afford to be undervalued like this.
Even more concerning is the fact that supporting workforce sustainability is part of the NDIA’s core mandate — yet that responsibility has been completely ignored. Therapists are being driven out of the sector. Providers are walking away. And participants are being left without the essential care they deserve.
No consultation. No transparency. No respect.
This isn’t just a policy issue — it’s a systemic failure that risks collapsing the therapy workforce for those who need it most.
📣 Visit our website to access important articles, data, and tools to take action:
👉 https://www.ucphysio.physio/advocacy-tools

26/06/2025

NDIA stop the freeze

24/06/2025

💼 A night of collaboration, evidence and clinical pearls!

Our UC Physio team — Stuart, Naomi, Jess, Jordan & Dan — attended the Zaparas Lawyers Presentation Night alongside other passionate health professionals from across the Gold Coast.

🧠 Presentations included:

🔹 Stuart Macleod () – Collaborative Strategies in Managing Workcover Patients
🔹 Nick Criticos ( ) – Acute Upper Limb Injuries: Misconceptions, Management & When to Refer
🔹 Dr Neil Stevenson ( ) – Upper Limb Injuries & the Team Doctor 🏉 Sport & Exercise Physician | Team Doctor Qld Reds | CMO QAS & Aus Triathlon

🙏 And a special mention to Dr Annabella Stabler, Orthopaedic Surgeon, who was unable to attend but was scheduled to present on Base of Thumb Pain.

It’s always a privilege to learn alongside others who are just as committed to best practice care. Thanks to Zaparas Lawyers for hosting an exceptional evening 💙

20/06/2025

8 Allied Health Peak Bodies have united with one single message … Put people first - Stop the NDIS Pricing changes. Huge thankyou for your support!!

Australian Physiotherapy Association is the peak body representing the interests of 30,000+ physiotherapists & their patients. See PD, resources & advocacy.

18/06/2025

The sad reality is these stories are not isolated cases. All physiotherapists working in Paediatrics and Disability have many clients who will suffer under these changes. Don’t forget the mental anguish that each physio and business owners now face knowing we can help but are financially constrained in providing the care and capacity building support required.

17/06/2025

These are tough decisions for Jan. How can the NDIS put providers in this position? This will end up creating more problems for the state run hospitals as many preventative admissions will now start to occur.

17/06/2025

More of the actual data needs to be shown to the independent review committee as they don’t actually know how to do their own research.

15/06/2025

We are all in this together …. “You cannot build a sustainable NDIS by gutting it. You cannot claim to support choice and control while making it impossible to access services. And you cannot keep sidelining the voices of people with disability and expect silence.”

On 1 July, NDIS pricing changes take effect. The NDIA and the government are calling it “reform,” “efficiency,” “sustainability.

12/06/2025

Concerning times for anyone who has any common sense. This needs to be addressed

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