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Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS): what do they mean, how can care providers be ready? [including a free webinar!]
April 27, 2022
Rachel Griffiths, Human Rights and Mental Capacity Consultant to Quality Compliance Systems (QCS), the leading provider of content, guidance and standards for the social care sector, discusses what the new…
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Mental Capacity Act Myth Busters
September 30, 2021
True or false, only a doctor can assess someone’s capacity? Still unsure? Don’t worry Rachel Griffiths, MBE, dispels 10 common myths surrounding the Mental Capacity Act. You can download the…
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Mental Capacity and Human Rights – New NICE Quality Standard (Last update: 08.09.20)
September 8, 2020
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has brought out a useful Quality Standard (QS) on decision-making and mental capacity (QS 194, available here). Each NICE QS identifies…
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Risk Assessment and the Mental Capacity Act (MCA)
January 31, 2020
Care providers sometimes consult me when they’ve had a critical inspection – and often the decision-making around the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) has been identified as poor. Risk assessments are…
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Getting Ready for the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS)
January 31, 2020
We updated you in the summer on how things were getting on with plans to put the LPS into practice. At the moment, it’s slowed down a bit due to…
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How to assess capacity right
January 31, 2020
Managers are horrified if their rating goes from ‘Good’ to ‘Requires Improvement’. Three common errors relate to mental capacity assessment: Confusion among staff about how to assess capacity or who…
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The risks of a ‘closed culture’
January 31, 2020
In recent internal guidance, CQC inspectors have been told to operate a ‘low threshold for deciding to carry out a responsive inspection’ in homes that they consider to be at…
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Liberty Protection Safeguards: Dates for your diary!
July 29, 2019
Caroline Dinenage, Minister for Care at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has published an open letter in which she outlines the progress so far with LPS…
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