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Understand the principles of mental capacity in adult care

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Click on the link to open this page from the Social Care Institute for Excellence ‘Mental Capacity Act 2005 at a glance’. The page contains five videos covering each of the five key principles of the act. Watch the video and make notes. Is there anything that you can relate to your role? What can you learn from watching the video?

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Click to read ‘Decision making and mental capacity’ from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. The recommendations in this guideline represent the view of NICE, arrived at after careful consideration of the evidence available. When exercising their judgement, professionals and practitioners are expected to take this guideline fully into account, alongside the individual needs, preferences and values of their patients or the people using their service. It is not mandatory to apply the recommendations, and the guideline does not override the responsibility to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual, in consultation with them and their families and carers or guardian.
This article from the Community Care website looks at ‘Assessing mental capacity’.

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