Mental Capacity Act

£5.00

Duration: 30 minutes

This Mental Capacity Act course, addresses the intricacies of assessing mental capacity and the legalities surrounding this area of healthcare. The course explores: the five main principles of mental capacity; the importance of consent; Duty of Care; and the legal mediums by which a person’s power to decide for themselves may be diminished, should it be decided they are incapable of their own personal care.

Duration: 30 minutes

This Mental Capacity Act course, addresses the intricacies of assessing mental capacity and the legalities surrounding this area of healthcare. The course explores: the five main principles of mental capacity; the importance of consent; Duty of Care; and the legal mediums by which a person’s power to decide for themselves may be diminished, should it be decided they are incapable of their own personal care.

Objectives

  • After completing the course, learners will be able to:

  • Understand the meaning and types of consent

  • Explain what is meant by Duty of Care

  • Understand the meaning of mental capacity and recall the five main principles

  • State the difference between ‘capacity’ and ‘limited capacity’

  • Recognise the difference between lasting power of attorney and deputy-ship orders

  • Understand the meaning of deprivation of liberty safeguards

  • Describe the conditions relating to a valid advance directive

Topics


  • Types of consent

  • Consent for children

  • The Gillick competency

  • The Fraser guidelines

  • Duty of Care

  • The dilemmas of Duty of Care

  • Mental capacity

  • The 5 key principles

  • Lasting power of attorney

  • Deputy-ship orders

  • Deprivation of liberty safeguards

  • Advance directives