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Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples experience high levels of diabetes. If you provide care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples living with diabetes, there is a lot you can do to support them.

Registering people with the NDSS

Registering people with the NDSS is easy. As an authorised health professional, sign up to the NDSS Health Professional Portal with your AHPRA or CDE registration number and you’ll be able to register the people in your care within minutes. 

The following health professionals are authorised to use the NDSS Health Professional Portal to certify NDSS forms:

  • Nurse Practitioner
  • Practice Nurse
  • Physician
  • Paediatrician

Featured resources

Find information and resources to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with diabetes get even more support.

Diabetes Yarning

A comprehensive handbook to help support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living with diabetes.

FootForward

A training package to support the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce provide diabetes foot care in community.

Access Diabetes e-learning

Online modules for the health workforce supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with diabetes.

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Diabetes Yarning Online

The Diabetes Yarning program aims to encourage more yarning about diabetes, and is for people living with diabetes or those who support people living with diabetes.

NDSS News

  • Health professional
    21 February, 2025

    Dexcom G7 to be Subsidised Through the NDSS from 1 March 2025

    The Australian Government has confirmed that from 1 March 2025, the Dexcom G7 Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) sensors will be…

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  • Health professional
    25 September, 2024

    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners now authorised to certify select NDSS forms

    Through the National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS), the Australian Government and Diabetes Australia are dedicated to reducing the impact of…

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  • Health professional
    7 June, 2024

    Health Professionals Needed for NDSS Evaluation Study by UTS

    Are you a health professional working with individuals living with or at risk of diabetes? The University of Technology Sydney…

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Diabetes Australia acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this Country. We recognise their connection to land, waters, winds and culture. We pay the upmost respect to them, their cultures and to their Elders, past and present. We are committed to improving health outcomes for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people affected by diabetes and those at risk.

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