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The Safeguarding Children Service consist of four Safeguarding Children Teams. Our practitioners are all qualified nurses and have backgrounds such as health visiting, school nursing, youth offending…
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Routine Outcome Measures (ROMs) are standardised assessment tools which can be completed by a patient, family member / carer or practitioners and can give an overall rating or score across one or more…
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All services in Mersey Care are to access British Sign Language and related communication to support deaf and deafblind people via the specialist provider Signalise Co-op. Services within the…
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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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The Multi-Professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England Developed by Health Education England (HEE), this national framework defines Advanced Practice, detailing the required…
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Communicating with empathy in response to data breaches Data protection is fundamentally about people, not just systems or technology. The information we handle reflects the lives of individuals…
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This page has been set up to support the implementation of electronic job planning. Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust are about to embark on the implementation of an electronic job planning system…
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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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Dietician Mental Capacity Act flowchart
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Mental Capacity Act or Mental health Act
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Mental Capacity Act flowchart
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7 min briefing Mental Capacity Act - Shared Decision Making
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Dietary referral Mental Capacity Act flowchart
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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.