MCA resource - specialist resources
These resources are intended to provide more detailed guidance to either a specialist audience or within a specialist field of practice.
- This resource is aimed at everyone working with and supporting people with dementia, including those with overall responsibility for implementation in care services – managers, commissioners and inspectors – and those who provide frontline services – social workers, nurses, care home and domiciliary staff - Supporting People with dementia using the MCA (PDF) (Produced by Alzheimer’s Society)
- Mental Capacity Act 2005: Short Reference Guide for Psychologists and Psychiatrists (external website) - The development of a shorter reference guide leaflet and a more detailed set of professional practice guidelines for psychologists and psychiatrists. (Produced by British Psychological Society)
- Best Interests: Guidance on determining the best interests of adults who lack the capacity to make decision(s) themselves (external website) - Additional guidance in relation to both clarifying the types of factors which might need to be considered in making a decision, and in considering the process of best interests decision-making. This guidance would be useful both for those chairing best interests meetings and for those participating in them, that will include a review of relevant case law. (Produced by British Psychological Society jointly with Estia)
- Guidance on the MCA for primary care professionals (external website) (Produced by Collingham Healthcare Education Centre)
- Approved mental health professionals, approved clinicians and best interests assessors – guidance on changes to qualifying requirements for psychologists from 1 July 2009 (external website) - Statutory regulation of psychologists has resulted in changes to the qualifying requirements for approved mental health professionals and approved clinicians under the Mental Health Act 1983 and best interest assessors under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 deprivation of liberty safeguards. This guidance explains the changes, which take effect from 1 July 2009. (Produced by Department of Health)
- Best Interests at End of Life - Practical Guidance for Best Interests Decision Making and Care Planning at End of Life (PDF) (Produced by East Lancashire Teaching PCT and Central Lancashire PCT)
- Guidance for Care Homes on the Mental Capacity Act (external website) - Guidance for care home staff and care staff in the community. This will be developed into on-line briefings on an accessible website. (ECCA - Loughborough University)
- Guidance on Advance Decisions to Refuse Treatment (PDF) (Produced by End of Life Care Programme)
- Mental Capacity Act (external website) - A web based resource for clinical ethics committees. The project would be a joint project between the Ethox Foundation, the Ethox Centre and the UK Clinical Ethics Network. (Produced by Ethox - The Oxford Foundation for Ethics and Communication in Health Care Practice)
- Banking on good decisions (external website) - This publication provides detailed information about how the Mental Capacity Act 2005 can help people with mental health problems deal with their money when they go into banks, building societies and post offices. (Produced by Mental Health Foundation)
- Foundation Guidance for people with mental health problems and/or learning disabilities as customers of banks or building societies (external website) (Produced by Mental Health Foundation)
- Advance Decisions To Refuse Treatment (ADRT) website (external website) - Development of an Advance Decisions to Refuse Treatment Policy in the East Midlands with a view to its adoption as a "national" template and the development of accompanying training and clinical effectiveness tools including a DVD. (Produced by Mid Trent Cancer Network)
- The Mental Capacity Act in Practice: Guidance for End of Life Care (external website) - Complete revision & updating of NCPC’s existing Guidance on the Act; a brief accessible short summary of the Act; specialised guidance on templates for policies & procedures; a study on the impact of the Act in hospices, specialist palliative care units & care homes Please note: downloads from this website are not free of charge. (Produced by National Council for Palliative Care)
- Guidance for Adult Community Services Staff on the MCA 2005 (PDF) - This is designed to provide adult community practitioners with a clearer understanding of the law covering mental capacity. It is presented in such a way that busy community practitioners can quickly familiarise themselves with the contents. The Guidance contains checklists and case studies. The Guidance was created following research involving the adult community services staff at Nottingham City PCT and Nottinghamshire County Teaching PCT, whose views were invaluable. (Produced by Nottingham Trent University)
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