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NDIS Budgets - How to Make Sure You Get it ...


NDIS & Tube Feeding - What to Include (& How to Make Sure You Get it!)
Presented by Surgical House with Lina Breik, Tube Dietitian, Nutria and Avanos
Recorded: Wednesday 19th February 2025

Webinar Highlights

This webinar focuses on how you can get the best support for individuals with enteral feeding needs via the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). It features expert insights from a dietitian, product specialists and a consumables provider, emphasising the importance of accurate and comprehensive quotes to get NDIS Budgets right.

Features leading Tube Dietitian Lina Breik with product knowledge expert from Nutricia and Avanos and healthcare consumables experts from Surgical House.

The speakers provide key tips, covering topics such as building relationships with suppliers, understanding the key equipment, navigating formula trials, advocating for plan reviews and considering those products that also add to quality of life for clients. Followed by a Q&A.

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By listening to this webinar you will learn more about:

  • Working with tube fed clients in community dietetics.
  • How to secure funding for the right Enteral Nutrition, Equipment and dietitian services.
  • Nutrica’s specialised Home Nursing Service and how Nutricia can support clients and dietitians in community settings.
  • Tube feeding accessories from Avanos including MIC-Key products, extensions sets and more and importantly, understanding their longevity.
  • How to evidence the needs of your NDIS clients based on manufacturer guidelines.
  • Working with healthcare consumables and equipment providers like Surgical House to get accurate annual equipment quotes to ensure client’s get the right NDIS budget from the start.

A Trusted Enteral Nutrition Supplier

Surgical House is a registered NDIS provider of Healthcare Consumables and Equipment and a leading provider of supplies, equipment, accessories and oral nutritional supplements for children and adults who are tube-fed.

We ship Australia-wide with warehouses in Perth and Melbourne and a retail showroom in Osborne Park. We are here to make life easier for Tubies, their parents/ carers and clinicians. We provide free quotes for NDIS budgets and expert advice and support on our products.



Presenter Information

Lina Breik - Founder of Tube Dietitian and an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian with 15 years of clinical nutrition hospital experience in tube feeding. Lina has a passion for helping those with a disability and a feeding tube to nourish their bodies to optimise their wellbeing and independence. She is serves on the Board of Directors at Dietitians Australia.

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