The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability issues paper on health care for people with cognitive disability outlines our preliminary understanding of the key issues experienced by people with cognitive disability when accessing health care. The paper includes 10 questions to help people and organisations to provide responses.
The Royal Commission encourages responses from individuals and organisations to the issues paper by 20 March 2020, although submissions will also be accepted after that date.
The issues paper on health care for people with cognitive disability is available in PDF, Word and easy read formats on our website.
Responses to the issues paper can be provided, either:
- electronically to DRCEnquiries@royalcommission.gov.au
- in writing to GPO Box 1422, Brisbane, Queensland 4001
- by phone on 1800 517 199 or +61 7 3734 1900, we can make a time with you to take your response over the phone (between 9:00am to 6:00pm AEDT Monday to Friday)
- by audio recording
- by video recording.
Responses can be in any language. The Royal Commission will translate the response to English.