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Posts by Rachel Griffiths:
Vaccination, consent, and capacity in a care setting: How to decide?
At last, the first approved vaccine is here and is being rolled out first to vulnerable people in care homes...
Human rights the foundation of great care
Human rights: the foundation of great care We hear about human rights but can get confused when we think about how they...
Out of sight – who cares? Restraint, segregation and seclusion review – Lessons for all sectors
Out of Sight: Who Cares? The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published an excellent and much needed review of restrictions and...
Mental Capacity and Human Rights – New NICE Quality Standard (Last update: 08.09.20)
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has brought out a useful Quality Standard (QS) on decision-making and...
The Road to Liberty protection safeguards (LPS)
The liberty protection safeguards (LPS) were scheduled to come into force this October. Providers who have been worried about how...
Getting it Right: Human Rights during a Pandemic
COVID-19 has changed all our lives. And it’s changed the lives of people who live in care settings more than...
Care homes, Coronavirus, and Human Rights
The phony war is over. After the weeks of ‘what should we do if this disease gets close to home?’,...
Risk Assessment and the Mental Capacity Act (MCA)
Care providers sometimes consult me when they’ve had a critical inspection – and often the decision-making around the Mental Capacity...
Getting Ready for the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS)
We updated you in the summer on how things were getting on with plans to put the LPS into practice. ...
How to assess capacity right
Managers are horrified if their rating goes from ‘Good’ to ‘Requires Improvement’. Three common errors relate to mental capacity assessment: ...