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Mental Capacity Act
Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS): what do they mean, how can care providers be ready? [including a free webinar!]
Rachel Griffiths, Human Rights and Mental Capacity Consultant to Quality Compliance Systems (QCS), the leading provider of content, guidance and...
Mental Capacity Act Myth Busters
True or false, only a doctor can assess someone’s capacity? Still unsure? Don’t worry Rachel Griffiths, MBE, dispels 10 common...
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...
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: ...
The risks of a ‘closed culture’
In recent internal guidance, CQC inspectors have been told to operate a ‘low threshold for deciding to carry out a...
Liberty Protection Safeguards: Dates for your diary!
Caroline Dinenage, Minister for Care at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has published an open letter in...
Overview of the Liberty Protection Safeguards: Frequently Asked Questions
When will we have to start using the LPS instead of DoLS? The government hasn’t yet decided on that, though it is...
Liberty Protection Safeguards: What will they mean for Adult Social Care?
The liberty protection safeguards (LPS) have now finished their parliamentary journey, and at last we can see what the framework...