Mental Capacity Act (MCA) Directory

MCA Forum works with stakeholders from health and social care, together with those from other sectors to improve implementation of the MCA.

This webinar looks at the challenges of implementing the Mental Capacity Act 2005 during the Covid-19 pandemic. It examines specific issues that frontline staff may face, for instance determining whether testing is a treatment, lessons learnt and examples of good practice.

This guidance covers the key principle of the Mental Capacity Act, assessing capacity and inability to consent, best interests decision making for patients, independent mental capacity advocacy, and deprivation of liberty safeguards.

This guidance looks at the practical implications of the Mental Capacity Act for end of life care. It takes into account subsequent developments, including the publication of the Code of Practice and the establishment of the Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA) service; the new Court of Protection; and the Office of the Public Guardian. It explains the MCA in the context of the current developments in palliative care, and sets out NCPC’s future work plans in relation to the MCA. This guidance is principally written for professionals and organisations in all settings that provide palliative care services, either within specialist...

The purpose of this document is to set out the safeguarding roles, duties and responsibilities of all organisations commissioning NHS health and social care. The framework’s aims include: identifying and clarify how relationships between health and other systems work at both strategic and operational levels to safeguard children, young people and adults at risk of abuse or neglect; setting out the legal framework; promoting empowerment and autonomy for adults, including those who lack capacity for a particular decision as embodied in the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA), implementing an approach which appropriately balances this with safeguarding.

This flowchart sets out the steps needed to provide care and treatment to patients who re not under DoLS or MHA, patients with a DoLS authorisation, and patients detained under the MHA.

This protocol has been produced to offer guidance to staff about good practice in case management prior to accessing the Court of Protection in relation to welfare disputes and the procedure to follow when an application may be needed.

Consent form for examination, care, treatment or support.

Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards form.

Future wishes form.

Lasting power of attorney form.