Learning outcomes
Module 1:
• Recognise duties and responsibilities regarding consent.
• Identify legal responsibilities and practice implications under the Care Act, MCA and DoLS.
• Understand how the MCA principles apply in practice.
• Identify the decision/time specific nature of mental capacity.
• Be able to complete and record capacity assessments in practice.
Module 2:
• Be able to complete and record best interest assessments in practice.
• Identify legal arrangements that relate to the MCA/DoLS.
• Understand the role of IMCA’s.
• Identify recording issues associated with restrictions and restraints in health and social care.
• Understand what constitutes a DoL as per the ‘acid test’.
• Understand how DoL is authorised in care homes, hospitals and in the community.
• Identify local authority responsibilities in relation to Deprivation of Liberty.
More details to follow, once the final version of the NEW MCA (LPS) Code of Practice and Regulations are published.