Rules that apply statewide. Registration with the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission is national; NSW runs the NDIS Worker Check through the Office of the Children's Guardian, with applications started at Service NSW; and supported independent living became a registered support on 1 July 2026. Our Sydney NDIS provider page explains each with sources, and our Coffs Harbour page covers the Mid North Coast district as a whole. Here we stick to the Hastings.
Where the numbers are. The council area's 3,934 participants make up about 42% of the Mid North Coast district's 9,428. Within it, Port Macquarie West and East hold 2,399 between them, Wauchope 722, Laurieton–Bonny Hills 623 and the rural Port Macquarie Region area 190. That rural figure rose from 118 in 2022, a reminder that participants out at Telegraph Point, Beechwood or Ellenborough are searching too, and want to know before they ring whether anyone will travel to them.
Two districts meet at your southern edge. Kempsey Shire to the north (1,574 participants) is part of the same Mid North Coast district. Mid-Coast Council, which starts beyond Kendall and the Camden Haven and takes in Taree and Harrington, is counted in the Hunter New England district instead, with 3,282 participants, and Uniting is the local area coordination partner there. Northcott runs the early childhood approach in both districts and lists a Port Macquarie Hastings office in Home Street, so a children's referral may come from the same organisation whichever side of the line a family lives on. If you work both sides, name the towns on each.
Hospitals and training. Port Macquarie Base Hospital on Wrights Road is a 228-bed level five facility of Mid North Coast Local Health District, with occupational therapy, physiotherapy, social work and Aboriginal health among its listed services. Wauchope's hospital carries the rehabilitation unit described above, and Charles Sturt University has offered occupational therapy and physiotherapy degrees in town. A site that speaks to hospital staff and to job-seeking graduates, as well as to families, reflects how a Hastings provider actually gets its referrals and its workers.
How we work with you. We're an Adelaide team and work with Port Macquarie providers by phone and email. We haven't built a site for a Hastings business, or for one whose main work is NDIS supports; the projects below were picked for their forms and layouts. You send your supports, towns, registration details and photos, and we send a draft link to check before you pay anything.