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Monday 25 September 2017

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This is an all day event.

Times: 09:00 - 16:30

Course Overview

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 was enacted to ensure that the capacity of adults is assessed consistently by all Healthcare professionals. Its approach is prescriptive but provides an appropriate platform for determining capacity regardless if you are a doctor, nurse or healthcare support worker. The legislation intended all who provide care to be in a position to assess capacity where there are concerns. The legislation also covers advanced directives, power of attorney as well deprivation of liberty safeguards. The 2005 Act establishes a statutory framework for determining a person’s capacity and introduces a checklist of factors that needs to be considered when determining if care and treatment is in a person’s best interests. As care givers, you will be required to abide by the provisions of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and its code of practice in order to avoid liability in trespass when caring for an incapable person (Mental Capacity Act 2005, section 5).

Course Content

The course would covers the entirety of the legislation including case scenarios to take you from theory to practice:

• Guiding principles
• Capacity
• Best interest
• Restraint & Deprivation of liberty
• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
• Advance decision refusing treatment (ADRT)
• Lasting power of attorney (LPA)
• Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA)
• Court of Protection
• Court Appointed Deputies (CAD)
• Court of Protection Visitors
• Public Guardian
• Office of Public Guardian (OPG)
• Wilful neglect & ill-treatment - Criminal offences
• Research

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