The NDSS provides access to diabetes self-management information, education, support programs and subsidised diabetes products to australians diagnosed with diabetes and registered on the ndss. the scheme aims to enhance the capacity of people with diabetes and assist them to live a life in which the impact of diabetes is minimised, and their overall health is improved. the scheme ensures that persons with diabetes have timely, reliable and affordable access, on a nationally consistent basis, to the supplies and services required for effective self-management of their condition.
the ndss, an initiative of the australian government, is administered by diabetes australia.