Comprehensive Care Standard

Intellectual disability and the Comprehensive Care Standard

An inclusive approach to implementing the Comprehensive Care Standard will build the capacity of the health service organisation and its clinicians to address the needs of people with intellectual disability.^{2,19,27,28,29,58} 

The Commission’s Implementing the Comprehensive Care Standard – A conceptual model for supporting comprehensive care delivery^[70] emphasises the importance of involving the person in the planning and the processes of ‘risk screening, goal identification, care coordination and care’.

Comprehensive planning for people with intellectual disability should include identifying reasonable adjustments and alternative or augmentative communication needs.