A best interests decision making e-learning course. This session explores ‘best interests’, what it means for disabled people and how best interest decisions are made for disabled people who lack capacity.

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.

A deprivation of liberty safeguards e-learning course. This session explores the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) to help understand what they are, their aim and their purpose.

The HEE e-LfH Mental Capacity Act e-learning programme (MCA) is made up of 11 e-learning sessions, which cover the following titles: Mental Capacity Act as part of human rights; assessing mental capacity; making decisions; best interests; restraint; deprivation of liberty; relationship between the Mental Capacity Act and the Mental Health Act; Mental Capacity Act and young people aged 16 or 17; research involving people who lack capacity; Mental Capacity Act and adult safeguarding; settling disputes and disagreements. Each e-learning session will take approximately 20 to 30 minutes to complete and is made up of knowledge, case scenarios, short interviews and self-assessment questions to test your knowledge. The resource can be accessed on smart phones, tablets and laptop/desktop devices.

This guide is for people detained under section 2 and 3 of the Mental Health Act or if you are staying in hospital as a voluntary patient. A voluntary patient (also called an informal patient) is someone who is in hospital but is not detained under the Mental Health Act. They can leave hospital at any time. However, if health professionals are concerned about their safety or the safety of others, they can stop them from leaving for up to 72 hours. The guide explains what rights individuals have and what should happen to them at different stages through their journey in hospital. There are six parts to this guide. The first four parts (A-D) relate to the different stages of stay in hospital in time order, covering: the decision to detain; being detained in hospital; staying in hospital; and leaving hospital. Part E explains how to make a complaint at any stage of one’s stay in hospital; and Part F explains some of the key terms used in this document.

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 document sets out to inform and support psychologists to make informed, sound clinical judgements and decisions across a range of sometimes very different situations where a client’s capacity to make their own decisions is being questioned. The document is the culmination of a consensus which has developed since the implementation of the MCA 2005 in England and Wales, itself drawing on Scottish experiences, including clinical practice and experience, research studies and case law. The document’s structure follows the chronological flow of a considered approach to assessment. It starts with an overview of the current legal context, followed by necessary preparatory steps and aspects of completing a best practice assessment (including consideration of the use of psychometric inventories) before drawing together the threads of information collected and forming defensible, balanced, well evidenced opinions, conclusions and recommendations.

A summary of the key themes included in the Law Commission’s consultation paper on deprivation of liberty.

This document sets out to define the process that professionals should follow when making judgements about a person’s capacity to consent to medical treatment.

Guidance for care providers on how to apply the Mental Capacity Act during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The resource considers the issues that should be considered when thinking about care and treatment that might involve restrictions because of Coronavirus; the cases where DoLS authorisations have already been granted; and the impacts of the Coronavirus Act 2020.

A dementia-friendly financial services charter designed to enable the sector to work towards becoming dementia-friendly. In addition to the charter, the document sets out the expectations for a dementia-friendly financial services sector and provides guidance on the commitments in the charter.

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.