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- Title:
- Assessing mental capacity
- Description:
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The session links to the statutory principles in session Mental Capacity Act as Part of Human Rights (783-001), and explains the requirement to do everything practicable to empower people to make their own decisions, with practice examples. It also outlines the Mental Capacity Act test for lack of capacity with practice examples and explains who is responsible for the assessment, what should trigger an assessment, how should it be done and how lack of capacity to consent should be recorded.
- Hierarchy:
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) > Resources for Staff Working in a Primary Care and Community Setting > General Practitioners (GPs), including resources for returning GPs > Resources for Returning GPs > Specific consultation and clinical topics > Mental Capacity Act > Assessing mental capacity
- Created:
- 30 Jul 2019
- Last Major Update:
- 15 Jan 2024
- Keywords:
- 783-002, MCA, Mental Capacity Act, human rights, DoLS, Deprivation of Liberty, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Assessment,Assess
- Quicklink:
- 783-002
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- Title:
- Assessing mental capacity
- Description:
-
The session links to the statutory principles in session Mental Capacity Act as Part of Human Rights (783-001), and explains the requirement to do everything practicable to empower people to make their own decisions, with practice examples. It also outlines the Mental Capacity Act test for lack of capacity with practice examples and explains who is responsible for the assessment, what should trigger an assessment, how should it be done and how lack of capacity to consent should be recorded.
- Hierarchy:
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) > Resources for Staff Working in a Primary Care and Community Setting > General Practitioners (GPs), including resources for returning GPs > Resources for Returning GPs > Specific consultation and clinical topics > Mental Capacity Act > Assessing mental capacity
- Created:
- 30 Jul 2019
- Last Major Update:
- 15 Jan 2024
- Keywords:
- 783-002, MCA, Mental Capacity Act, human rights, DoLS, Deprivation of Liberty, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Assessment,Assess
- Quicklink:
- 783-002