Winner of the Greater London Training Award
Winner of the Greater London Training Award
The Mental Capacity Act 2005
The Mental Capacity Act (MCA) provides a new statutory framework to empower and protect people who may lack the mental capacity to make decisions for themselves. The Act applies to people over the age of 16 and its provisions come into effect from April 2nd 2007.
This course aims to deliver basic awareness training on the introduction of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. These staff will have duties that involve the care and support of people who lack capacity (those unable to provide informed consent in many areas of decision making)
The course will identify issues of capacity and consent and address those issues which have hitherto been questions of the ‘common law’ alone – best interests, necessity and duty of care. The training will outline the scope of the new legislation, the supportive guidance and its implications for professional practice. There will be the opportunity to consolidate learning through practice scenarios.
Learning objectives:
By the end of this course participants should be able to:
Identify the key provisions in this new
legislation and apply them directly to their professional responsibilities.
Promote the well-being of those who lack capacity within a positive
rights-based perspective
Recognise the best practice approaches to decision making in the lives of
those who lack capacity
Determine concepts such as capacity, consent, best interests and apply these
to their work with users of health and social care services.
Course content:
Confusion over the law
Decision making processes
Whose right to decide what?
Capacity and incapacity –consent
Common law – necessity and best interests –‘Bournewood’
The rights of the incapacitated person
Essential principles of the Act
Determining capacity and best interests
Identifying pitfalls for professional practice
Managing an incapacitated persons affairs
Acts in connection with Care or Treatment
Lasting Power of Attorney
New Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA)
New Court of Protection
Appointment of Court of Protection Deputies
Advance Decisions to refuse treatment
Research (Research Ethics Committees)
New Public Guardian
Code of Practice
Local authority responsibilities
Case studies to facilitate learning
Training methods
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