The algorithm has no liability. The assessor has no override. The TGA says it falls outside its remit. AHPRA’s standard requires a registered practitioner — the IAT and I-CAN have none. The Department of Health and Ageing wrote the parameters. The minister set the policy.

A departmental spokesperson told MWM,

“The Government decided in 2024 that funding allocations and priority classifications would be determined by assessor input and application of algorithms, without the ability for an assessor to override the outcome.”

The accountability gap is not an accident. It is the design.

Is this supposed to be an efficient way to get NDIS and aged care patients to die sooner?