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The Mental Capacity Act applies to individuals who lack the capacity to make certain decisions as a result of an impairment of their brain or mind. This framework covers both day-to-day…
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The Mental Capacity Team is responsible for supporting the application of the Mental Capacity Act across the Trust and promoting good practice across all divisions. Alongside providing specialist…
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Welcome to the Doctor's Mental Capacity Act (MCA) toolkit This is an important resource, designed to support our Doctor’s and responsible clinicians around the application of the Mental…
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Welcome to the Mental Health Act (MHA) Department The Medical Records/Mental Health Act Department separated late December 14, with the Medical Records Department remaining in the original office…
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Mental health awareness training
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What is Making Safeguarding Personal? Chapter 14 Care and Support Statutory Guidance sets out the following: “Making safeguarding personal means [safeguarding] should be person-led and…
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Nationally, for providers of healthcare, pressure damage is one of the highest clinical risks, yet with the right prevention strategies in place harm can be avoided. The reduction of pressure…
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What is financial abuse? Financial abuse includes a number of different scenarios. Below are examples, but the list is not exhaustive: Theft of money or possessions Fraud, scamming…
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The Community Framework makes clear that one of its purposes is to enable services to shift away from an inequitable, rigid and arbitrary Care Programme Approach (CPA) classification and bring up the…
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Savera UK provides support for professionals dealing with Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Honour Based Abuse and Harmful practices, more information can be found on their wesite. …
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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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7 min briefing Mental Capacity Act - Shared Decision Making
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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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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.