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Royal recognition for the Mental Capacity Act
June 5, 2017
I hesitated long and hard in case I seem vain, but I’m going to talk about how the Mental Capacity Act got to Buckingham Palace the other day! I’m truly…
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Action on Brain Injury Week: 8 – 14 May
May 9, 2017
Headway is a great charity, and very close to my heart for the way it works within the empowering framework of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA). The charity is devoted…
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The Mental Capacity Act and protection from liability
April 21, 2017
This is my final article (for the time being!) about the changes proposed to the Mental Capacity Act (MCA). The biggest is the introduction of a new framework to replace…
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Getting better: Mrs. Lloyd’s story
April 11, 2017
Mrs. Lloyd* was very unwell when she was admitted to a care home. Due to her progressive dementia, she had been forgetting to eat and drink or keep warm.…
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What Humpty Dumpty can tell us about recording
April 5, 2017
“‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’” In Alice Through the…
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A (small) proposed change to how we make best interests decisions
March 29, 2017
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…
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DoLS update: Notifying Coroners
March 22, 2017
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…
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Proposed changes to the Mental Capacity Act and DoLS: what do they mean to us?
March 22, 2017
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…
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