Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA) Resource
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 introduced the role of the independent mental capacity advocate (IMCA).
IMCAs are a legal safeguard for people who lack the capacity to make specific important decisions: including making decisions about where they live and about serious medical treatment options. IMCAs are mainly instructed to represent people where there is no one independent of services, such as a family member or friend, who is able to represent the person.
About IMCAs
Information for...
- Information for IMCAs
- Information for doctors about medical decisions
- Information for people who instruct IMCAs
- Information for commissioners
- Information for health and social care staff
- Information for family and friends
What's new
- New guidance on accessing the Court of Protection
- New guidance on IMCA and paid relevant person's representative roles in the MCA's DOLS
- The Neary Judgement on Deprivation of Liberty
- Local authority decision to move a man with autism found unlawful
- Research on the difference IMCAs make
- New films about the MCA on Social Care TV
- Report on Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards published by CQC
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