Are you confident in applying the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) in your daily practice? Do you fully understand how to assess capacity, make best interests decisions, or navigate the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)?
This essential one-day course provides healthcare and social care professionals with a comprehensive, practical understanding of the MCA and its application in real-world scenarios. From conducting capacity assessments to making best interests decisions, this course will equip you with the skills and confidence to comply with the law and deliver patient-centred care.
Key Benefits
– Practical, hands-on training on applying the MCA in real-world healthcare settings
– Clear guidance on conducting capacity assessments and making best interests decisions
– Expert instruction on navigating complex ethical and legal challenges
– Increased confidence in managing situations involving restraint and deprivation of liberty
Course Objectives
- Understand the key principles of the MCA
- How to undertake capacity assessments and the test for “lack of capacity”
- How to implement best interests decision making
- Record keeping
- Advance care planning and advance decisions
- Restraint under the MCA, and the limits to this
- When does restraint turn into a deprivation of liberty?
- How are deprivations of liberty authorised?
Course Timetable
| 9:30am to 10:00am | Coffee and Registration |
| 10:00am to 10:30am | Background to the MCA and key principles |
| 10:30am to 11:15am | Capacity assessments and best interests decision making |
| 11:15am to 11:30am | Coffee break |
| 11:30am to 12:00pm | Record keeping |
| 12:00pm to 12:45pm | Advance care planning and advance decisions |
| 12:45pm to 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm to 2:00pm | Restraint under the MCA |
| 2:00pm – 2:45pm | Identifying a deprivation of liberty, and introduction to the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards |
| 2:45pm to 3:00pm | Coffee break |
| 3:00pm to 3:45pm | Other ways a deprivation of liberty can be authorised |
| 3:45pm to 4:00pm | Questions, feedback and finish |
