Response to the Health care for people with cognitive disability: Issues paper. Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability

PANDDA Inc welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Health care for people with cognitive disability: Issues paper as part of the national consultation by the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability. The purpose of this submission is to express our concerns for the health and wellbeing of people with intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) from the perspective of professional nurses who work in the disability space and in response to questions as set out in the Health care for people with cognitive disability: Issues paper. Our approach is to express our concerns that are supported by the literature, together with offering a number of lived experience situations from a professional IDD nurse perspective. These are presented as narratives. A series of recommendations for the Commissioner is offered.