Decision-making and mental capacity: NG108

This guideline covers decision-making in people 16 years and over who may lack capacity now or in the future. It aims to help health and social care practitioners support people to make their own decisions where they have the capacity to do so. It also helps practitioners to keep people who lack capacity at the centre of the decision-making process. It includes recommendations on supporting decision-making, advance care planning, assessing mental capacity to make specific decisions at a particular time, and best interests decision-making. The guideline should be read in conjunction with the Mental Capacity Act 2005. It does not cover Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards processes.