Explains that creating a lasting power of attorney is quick and easy, especially when using the online service. The service guides users through answering the questions and explains the process along the way. The service can be found here: service at www.lastingpowerofattorney.service.gov.uk/home.

Ann explains how simple she found it to make a lasting power of attorney using the new digital service on GOV.UK.

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.

This quality standard covers decision making in people aged 16 and over, who use health and social care services and may lack capacity to make their own decisions (now or in the future). It aims to support implementation of the aims and principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and relevant Codes of Practice but it is not a substitute for these. The standard covers: supported decision making; advance care plans; assessment of capacity; and best interests decision making.

UK Government’s publications, guidance and forms relating to lasting power of attorney.

This guidance provides an overview of deputyship. It covers: who can apply to be a deputy; responsibilities; apply to be a deputy; fees; after you’ve applied; when you’re appointed; supervision, support and visits; accounts, gifts and expenses; complete your deputy report; change your deputyship or make a one-off decision; end your deputyship.

Annual report and fees forms and guidance for anyone appointed as a deputy.

An e-learning course on advance care planning. This session discusses Advance Care Planning and decision-making with disabled people of all ages, including using the framework and elements of the Mental Capacity Act.

This guidance provides you the key legal and ethical considerations that need to be taken into account when seeking consent for treatment or research, and signposts to other sources of support and information. Topics covered include: key questions about consent and refusal; capacity to consent; sharing information with patients; who is responsible for seeking consent; refusal of consent; advance care planning; consent for emergency treatment; compulsory treatment under mental health legislation; consent for research; consent for teaching purposes.

This resource provides information and advice about deputyship for a person with dementia. It covers the types of deputyship; duties of a deputy and limits to a deputy’s powers; how to apply to become a deputy for a person with dementia; who to inform when you become a deputy; supervision and support from the Office of the Public Guardian; deputies and dementia – frequently asked questions.

This factsheet explains how advance decisions and advance statements work,
and what they can and cannot do. It also provides practical advice to help
draft an advance decision.

This factsheet explains what an LPA is and why individuals might consider making one. It also provides practical advice and information about how to appoint an attorney, and what powers can be given to them.