Title:

Mental Health Assessor DoLS Training Programme

Description:

The Mental Health Assessor DoLS Training Programme provides elearning training for qualifying doctors who wish to become DoLS mental health assessors.

The training includes a Mental Capacity Act Test of Understanding to ensure trainees have a good knowledge of the MCA before they proceed to the DoLS training. Trainees will also need to complete and pass the DoLS Test of Understanding once they have completed the e-learning training programme. Only when a trainee has successfully completed and passed both the MCA and DoLS test will they be able to generate a certificate, which can be presented to a supervisory body as evidence that they have satisfactorily completed the Mental Health Assessor DoLS Training Programme.

Created:

17 Nov 2010

Last Major Update:

13 Aug 2026

Keywords:

DoLS, Deprviation of Liberty Safeguards, Mental Health Assessor, Mental Capacity Act, MCA, Mental Health Act, MHA