This form is to be used where it would be usual to seek written consent but an adult patient (16 or over) lacks capacity to give or withhold consent to treatment.

Forms to be used for the assessment and best interest review of patients who lack capacity to make a specific decision.

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 services or as part of their day-to-day care. People working in specialist palliative care units, hospices, hospitals, care homes, and primary and community care will all find it relevant. However, it is also intended to help patients, care home residents, people who want to understand how they can influence their future care and informal and family carers.

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.

Lasting power of attorney form.

Mental capacity assessment form.

A resource to help health and social care staff apply learning from MCA courses to their practice. The document lists the five guiding principles; outlines some of the things care workers do every day showing they are applying the MCA; and contains a reflective log template to help staff identify when they have applied one of the 5 principles in their work.