Human Rights

I’ve written already about the proposed new Liberty Protection Safeguards. These will make life a bit easier for providers, by making it the responsibility of the commissioners of services, or…

Removal of the duty to notify coroners if someone dies when subject to a DoLS authorisation Many of us are really pleased to learn that the coroner will no longer…

The Law Commission has published its ‘draft Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill’, together with a lucid but long report explaining how they reached their proposals. There are two main themes to…

This arresting phrase comes from a Hadith, a report describing what the prophet Mohammed said or did on some occasion: ‘Tie your camel first, then put your trust in Allah.’…

I wish there was a new, fresh way of saying this, but we need to come up with some better ways to embed the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) in the…

The magazine Community Care has published an article, written by Andy McNicoll,  that is causing many of us to scratch our heads. This piece is about a care home that…

When my mum trained as a nurse, the first Sister she worked with clearly didn’t have much time for the patients. She used to complain that she’d get through the…

I never for a moment dreamed that this would happen, but I was awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List. I was listed for my work with the…