The Nationwide Health and Disability Advocacy Service (the Advocacy Service) offers free, independent, and confidential advice and support to help you resolve issues with health and disability services (such as a doctor, occupational therapist, residential care facility, or home support service).
Their advocates can let you know about your rights, answer your questions, and talk through your options for making a complaint.
Advocates can:
- Help you understand your rights when using health or disability services
- Listen to your concerns
- Talk through your options
- Help you to formulate your complaint and make a complaint
- Support you while you resolve your issue.
Get support from the Nationwide Health and Disability Advocacy Service (external link)
The Advocacy Service also have self-advocacy resources to help you resolve problems yourself.
Self-advocacy resources from the Advocacy Service (external link)
Last updated on Tuesday, 16 August 2022