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Managing Risk When Someone Might Lack Capacity
December 7, 2017
It’s a real puzzle when someone who lacks capacity to understand risk is nonetheless determined to do something where you can see the risk of harm to them. There…
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Making Visits Matter
October 27, 2017
I do like the title of this recently published report into home care, based on a UNISON survey of 1,000 home care workers. I like it because it…
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What does a DoLS authorisation allow us to do?
September 12, 2017
I’m inspired to take a look at this ‘deceptively simple’ question by David Beckenham’s excellent piece, on the powers the Mental Health Act 1983 gives to doctors and nurses. Now…
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What does Human Rights have to do with Breakfast Time?
September 11, 2017
Human rights aren’t always popular, but they are a way of protecting the things that make life worth living for any of us. It’s thanks to our human rights that…
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Lasting Powers of Attorney: Still A Good Thing
August 25, 2017
I recently heard on the radio a retired judge saying some pretty startling things about Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs), which were then picked up in newspapers. The message seemed…
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Ombudsman’s focus report on the Mental Capacity Act
August 10, 2017
This is my second blog about the Ombudsman’s report, which is called ‘The Right to Decide: towards a greater understanding of mental capacity and deprivation of liberty’. You can find…
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Supporting people to make their own decisions: more than just a slogan?
July 20, 2017
This foundation stone of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) is one of the five statutory principles, the one that says we should never decide that people lack capacity to make…
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Staying up late
July 17, 2017
What time do you go to bed? We all long for an early night in theory, but then find ourselves watching telly, reading a book, pottering around the garden, meeting…
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