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Understand the principles of mental capacity in adult care
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Click on the icon to the left to open an activity sheet containing tasks for you to read and complete. If you have any questions you should contact your tutor who will be able to offer guidance.
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Reading Materials
‘Mental Capacity Act’ on the NHS website
‘Mental Capacity Act (MCA)’ from the Social Care Institute for Excellence
‘Regulation 11: Need for consent’ from the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014: Regulation 11
‘Consent – the basics - England’ on the Medical Protection website
‘Consent to treatment’ from the NHS
‘What are Liberty Protection Safeguards?’ from the Social Care Institute for Excellence
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Evidence Opportunities
Extended Learning
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’.
Extended Learning
