Melbourne 2026 NDISDA & Impact Housing Hospital-to-Home Summit
About this Event
NDISDA & Impact Housing National Strategic Alliance
Hospital-to-Home National Leadership Summit 2026 -
Navigating Hospital Discharge in a Time of National Reform
Australia’s Premier National Forum on Hospital Discharge Reform
The NDISDA & Impact Housing National Strategic Alliance Hospital-to-Home Summit 2026 brings together Australia’s most influential leaders across health, disability, housing, mental health, aged care, psychosocial recovery, and government policy to address one of the most urgent system challenges of our time:
How do we ensure vulnerable Australians transition safely, sustainably, and with dignity from hospital to home under the new 2026 reform environment?
Held at the prestigious RACV City Club in Melbourne, this national leadership summit arrives at a pivotal moment as sweeping NDIS and aged care reforms reshape eligibility, funding pathways, discharge responsibility, and the interface between health, housing and disability systems.
Across Australia, hospitals are under increasing pressure from bed block, delayed discharge, psychosocial complexity, homelessness risk, and fragmented system accountability—creating urgent demand for coordinated, cross-sector solutions.
This summit moves beyond policy discussion into real-world operational, legal, clinical and strategic action.
Why this Summit matters
Australia is entering a new era of reform across the NDIS, aged care, housing and mental health systems, fundamentally changing how people transition from hospital into the community.
At the same time, systems are facing rising complexity, including:
- Delayed discharge and hospital bed block pressures
- Housing shortages and SDA/SIL instability
- Psychosocial disability reassessment uncertainty
- High-acuity and behavioural discharge complexity
- Fragmented responsibility across health, housing and disability systems
- Increasing legal and clinical risk in discharge decisions
This summit brings these challenges into one national conversation -focused on practical solutions that work in real systems, not theory.
What you will explore:
Across a full-day national program, delegates will examine the future of hospital-to-home transition under the 2026 reform landscape, including:
- The impact of NDIS reforms on discharge, eligibility and psychosocial supports
- The emerging “discharge divide” between health, housing and disability systems
- SDA and SIL funding volatility, vacancy risk and housing instability
- Psychosocial disability, mental health recovery and hospital avoidance models
- Legal duty of care, clinical governance and discharge liability risk
- Expansion of Support at Home and Hospital in the Home (HITH) models
- High-acuity discharge challenges including bariatric and complex care pathways
- National and Victorian innovation in mental health accommodation and recovery models
Who should attend?
This summit is designed for leaders and practitioners working across the full hospital-to-home continuum, including:
- Hospital executives, CEOs and clinical directors
- Discharge planners, hospital social workers and nursing leaders
- Mental health services and psychosocial recovery providers
- NDIS providers, support coordinators and recovery coaches
- SDA developers, investors and housing providers
- SIL operators and community housing organisations
- Aged care providers and Support at Home organisations
- Government departments, policymakers and regulators
- Allied health professionals and case managers
- Transitional accommodation and homelessness services
- Legal, compliance and governance professionals
- Behaviour support and complex care specialists
- NGOs and community sector organisations
The Hospital-to-Home Summit 2026 is more than a conference.
It is a national leadership forum addressing one of Australia’s most complex system challenges - How to ensure safe, coordinated and dignified transitions from hospital to home in a rapidly changing reform environment.
As the boundaries between health, housing, disability and aged care continue to blur, collaboration is no longer optional -it is essential.
This summit brings together the people, systems and ideas needed to build that future.
Book Now
- Individual tickets available
- Table bookings for groups of 8 available
Secure your place at Australia’s leading hospital-to-home reform summit.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
AUD 527.94 to AUD 580.62
