This webinar was chaired by Baroness Ilora Finlay and the technical host was Prof Wayne Martin. It was about sharing voices in response to COVID-19.

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 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.

Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards form.

The purpose of this policy is to provide guidance and support for staff to protect adults at risk of abuse who are receiving care in our hospitals and departments. This includes guidance on what to do when a patient lacks mental capacity (Mental Capacity Act), is being deprived of liberty in hospital (Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards), or is at risk of radicalisation (Prevent Strategy).

Prompt cards on safeguarding adults for staff within health services. The cover: staff responsibilities; categories of abuse; staff role as alerters; information sharing; capacity and consent; the Mental Capacity Act 2005; and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.

Service user “I” statements of the five principles of the Mental Capacity Act.

Flowchart illustrating the four routes to admitting to hospital a person needing treatment for mental health disorder: voluntary admission; Mental Health Act 1983; Mental Capacity Act; and Court order.

This presentation provides an overview of the process of assessing capacity and the thresholds for decisions; the practical skills needed to assess capacity; and how to ensure appropriate record keeping.

A tool to help assess compliance with the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.