Published August 2025
Overview
We’re delighted to let you know that the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) is offering FREE sessions in a short tour to Leeds, London and Birmingham (October to December 2025) to explore our ‘Get me to hospital’ guidance and how it relates to your everyday practice.
The guidance covers issues around supporting people under the Mental Capacity Act (MCA, different to the Mental Health Act), who are assessed as unable to make their own decision to be conveyed to hospital for physical treatment, and therefore require a decision to be made in their best interests. SCIE created the guidance in response to evidence demonstrating that practitioners may struggle to make these decisions.
The focus is on supporting both the person at the centre of decisions relating to hospital admission, and the practitioner responsible for arranging, or undertaking, the process of getting someone to hospital. It also looks to address potential health inequalities where incorrect use of the MCA has led people to suffer harm, including death, from potentially preventable conditions.
Who is this guide for?
Each day will be divided into two sessions. The morning sessions will be for all health and social care professionals working with adults who may lack decision-making capacity, including those who work in care homes and for care providers. The morning session will be an opportunity to share more about how and why the guidance was created, and to discuss putting the guidance into practice.
The afternoon sessions will be for individuals, their carers and family members. The afternoon sessions will be an opportunity to launch the easy read version of the guidance and for us to find out more about what the guidance means for people, and what we can do to support use of the guidance.
When and where?
Friday 10 October Park Plaza, Leeds LS1 5NS
9:30-12:30: For health and social care professionals.
13:00 -16:00: A drop in for individuals, carers and family members.
Monday 24 November Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, London SE1 9NH
9:30-12:30: For health and social care professionals,.
13:00 -16:00: A drop in for individuals, carers and family members.
Tuesday 2 December Sense Touchbase Pears, Birmingham, 750 Bristol Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 6NA
9:30-12:30: For health and social care professionals,.
13:00 -16:00: A drop in for individuals, carers and family members.
Please follow the Eventbrite links above to register for the relevant session.
These events are in person only. We expect demand to be high, so please only book if you are available to attend. If you need to cancel your booking, please use the Eventbrite system to cancel as early as possible, so that we can release places for other participants. Final numbers need to be confirmed with the venue before the events.
We will be providing refreshments during each of the sessions; lunch will not be provided.
‘Get me to hospital’ is just one of SCIE’s range of evidence-based resources and practical information created to support best practice, co-production and innovation in social care.