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of health conditions, including ongoing or chronic health conditions; or

(b) other activities that aim to improve the health status of Australians, including general practitioner services, medical specialist services, dental care, nursing, allied health services (including acute and post-acute services), preventive health, care in public and private hospitals and pharmaceuticals or other universal entitlements; or

(c) funding time-limited, goal-oriented services and therapies:

(i) where the predominant purpose is treatment directly related to the person's health status; or

(ii) provided after a recent medical or surgical event, with the aim of improving the person's functional status, including rehabilitation or post-acute care; or

(d) palliative care.

Mental health

    7.6 The NDIS will be responsible for supports that are not clinical in nature and that focus on a person's functional ability, including supports that enable a person with a mental illness or psychiatric condition to undertake activities of daily living and participate in the community and social and economic life.

    7.7 The NDIS will not be responsible for:

(a) supports related to mental health that are clinical in nature, including acute, ambulatory and continuing care, rehabilitation/recovery; or

(b) early intervention supports related to mental health that are clinical in nature, including supports that are clinical in nature and that are for child and adolescent developmental needs; or

(c) any residential care where the primary purpose is for inpatient treatment or clinical rehabilitation, or where the services model primarily employs clinical staff; or

(d) supports relating to a co-morbidity with a psychiatric condition where the co-morbidity is clearly the responsibility of another service system (eg treatment for a drug or alcohol issue).

Early childhood development

    7.8 The NDIS will be responsible for personalised supports, specific to a child's disability (or developmental delay), which are additional to the needs of children of a similar age and beyond the reasonable adjustment requirements of early childhood development service providers.

    7.9 The NDIS will be responsible for early interventions for children with disability (or developmental delay) which are:

(a) specifically targeted at enhancing a child's functioning to undertake activities of daily living, but not supports which are specifically for the purpose of accessing a universal service such as school readiness programs that prepare a child for education; and

(b) likely to reduce the child's future support needs, which would otherwise require support from the NDIS in later years, including through a combination and sequence of supports.

    7.10 The NDIS will not be responsible for:

(a) meeting the early childhood education and care needs of a child with a developmental delay or disability required by children of a similar age including through inclusion supports that enable children to participate in early childhood education and care settings; or

(b) supports,