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Children and Young People’s Intensive Support Team The new service will support children and young people across Warrington, St Helens, Knowsley and Halton and will work with partners to…
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At Mersey Care, we support healthcare professionals to develop into ACP roles while continuing to work. Mersey Care can support staff through structured development programs, providing access to…
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The Training section serves as a comprehensive hub for your digital training needs. The hub provides information and links to support you to access the digital training required for your role.…
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Here are some quick links to policies that you might find useful. Supporting health and wellbeing (HR07) This policy is aimed at supporting attendance consistently and fairly across Mersey Care.…
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The Government's 10 Year Health Plan for England has been launched, setting out a bold, ambitious and necessary new course for the NHS. The plan fundamentally reinvents our approach to…
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Meet Jenny Parker, Advanced Clinical Pharmacist What inspired you to follow your current career path? I became interested in pharmacy as a teenager as my mum was a pharmacy technician with Boots and…
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What is speaking up? Speaking up is about anything that gets in the way of providing good care. When things go wrong, we need to make sure that lessons are learnt and things are improved. If we…
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The over-arching policies detailed below are available via the Trust's website. Click the box below for an overview of each policy. These policies are supported by local procedures and…
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MC01 Overarching Mental Capacity Act
The purpose of this corporate policy and procedure is to provide support and guidance for those working within the framework of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. This policy reviews and replaces the Trust-wide policy last reviewed in 2020
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MC04 Implementation and Management of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards within the Meaning of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
The purpose of this corporate policy and procedure is to provide support and guidance for those working within the framework of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. This policy reviews and replaces the Trust-wide policy last reviewed in 2020
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7 min briefing Mental Capacity Act - Shared Decision Making
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Mental Capacity Act flowchart
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Dietary referral Mental Capacity Act flowchart
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Dietician Mental Capacity Act flowchart
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Mental Capacity Act or Mental health Act
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MH01 Overarching Policy and Procedure of the Mental Health Act 1983
The objectives of this policy are to describe the standards expected and the supporting processes for 1 Clinical and administrative application of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA). 2 Describing the interface processes that exist between the Mental Health Act 1983, the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. 3 Monitoring the clinical and administrative application of the MHA. 4 Supporting those applying or monitoring the MHA through cross-referencing with the Act’s Code of Practice and other relevant literature, documentation. 5 Review and monitoring of the above process.
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Absent Without Leave (AWOL) Procedure
The purpose of this procedure is to ensure an effective and consistent response to reports of service users who are either detained under the Mental Health Act (MHA) 1983 (as amended 2007) or under Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) as per the Mental Capacity Act (2005) who abscond from an inpatient setting; are absent without leave (AWOL); or fail to return from a period of leave and how to return them safely to the ward if appropriate.
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HR27 Supporting colleagues with Mental or Physical Disabilities
This Policy is about ensuring that employees with long term physical or mental health conditions are supported to remain in work and have access to the same opportunities as people who do not have health conditions, in line with the 2010 Equality Act.