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Mental Capacity Act: Top Five Things you Need to Know
May 3, 2018
I’ve been challenged to give you, in five ‘Top Tips’, the headlines of what health and care staff need to know and put into practice to be compliant…
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MCA in Nursing Homes
March 29, 2018
Get the Basics Right Most of you will know by now that I do get bees in my bonnet and am likely to let them fly in your direction and…
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Advance Decisions: What do we Need to Know?
January 3, 2018
 I’ve been asked this a lot recently – particularly after recent publicity about a woman named Brenda, whose advance decision was ‘lost’ by hospital staff for well over…
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Managing Risk When Someone Might Lack Capacity
December 7, 2017
It’s a real puzzle when someone who lacks capacity to understand risk is nonetheless determined to do something where you can see the risk of harm to them. There…
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Hearing The Voice Of The Person With Dementia
November 17, 2017
Last week, I was honoured to be part of the 8th National Dementia Care Awards, which were sponsored by QCS. It was a great night out, and immensely inspiring: I…
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Happy Birthday MCA!
October 9, 2017
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) came into effect on 1 October 2007. After a full ten years of the MCA providing the legal framework for health and social…
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Brain Injury – A New Identity Card
September 25, 2017
Identity cards get a bad press, with their suggestion that ‘Big Brother’ is watching us. And the last thing that many people with a brain injury want is to be…
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What does a DoLS authorisation allow us to do?
September 12, 2017
I’m inspired to take a look at this ‘deceptively simple’ question by David Beckenham’s excellent piece, on the powers the Mental Health Act 1983 gives to doctors and nurses. Now…
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