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Listening Rooms You may already know that as a Mersey Care employee, you can get Access to Staff Psychological and Mental Health Support if you ever feel you need it. In the current situation,…
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The Intermediate Care transformation is focussed on enabling and delivering improved, consistent pathways to step up and step-down care. This includes taking a system-wide approach ensuring timely and…
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Help Us Help You this winter Cheshire and Merseyside residents are being urged to think first before contacting emergency services this winter and instead allow Merey Care to ‘Help…
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Hello All, As you are now aware because of staffing challenges that Byron ward has experienced, the Service has made a decision to ensure patient and staff safety is maintained to close Byron ward.…
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Single use vapes ban From 1 June 2025 it will be illegal for the sale and supply of single use disposable vapes in England, Scotland and Wales. This is part of Government efforts to reduce…
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Your PACE 365 appraisal Personal, Achievement, Contribution, Evaluation Recognising the good work we all do.
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Mersey Care remains committed to low carbon, sustainable healthcare and we recognise the relationship between our impact on the environment and climate change on public health and the services we…
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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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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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7 min briefing Mental Capacity Act - Shared Decision Making
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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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SA07 HS8 Environmental Suicide Risk Assessment (ESRA)
The purpose of this policy is to describe how the organisation assesses and manages environmental risks for suicide and self harm, including ligatures and ligature anchor points, within all inpatient mental health wards. It is intended to support Trust staff in discharging their duty of care to service users, and to provide consistency and assurance of processes for the Trust.