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Neary, Hillingdon and Best Interests Assessments

The judgement in the case of Stephen Neary was published yesterday. I held off commenting about the case when it first hit the press because sometimes I feel there is a lack of detail and an overwhelming presence of misunderstanding in relation to reporting...

Published 10 Jun 2011 7:05 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, work, mental health, MCA, local authority, london, long-term care, respite care, local government, imca, independent mental capacity advocate, Disability, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Court of Protection, personal, London Borough of Hillingdon, Best Interests Assessor, best interests assessment, best interests, bia, mark neary, neary judgement, steven neary
Press, Perception and the Court of Protection

Having had to study the Mental Capacity Act in fairly great detail, I often have to turn to judgements made by the Court of Protection to extend my general legislative knowledge. The Court of Protection has a number of functions … Continue reading...

Published 16 Feb 2011 7:06 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, work, MCA, learning disability, local authority, politics, human rights, mencap, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Court of Protection, pregnancy, personal, NHS Trust, Best Interests Assessor, cop, public guardian
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards – a few thoughts

I’ve written about the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (aka DoLs) and Best Interests Assessments before but the last time I touched on them in detail was a back in 2009 when I looked at some of the initial assessments I … Continue reading →...

Published 3 Feb 2011 6:20 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, older people, work, mental health, MCA, old age, mental health act, mental health act 1983, Mental Capacity Act 2005, approved mental health professional, Court of Protection, Human Rights Act 1998, personal, European Convention of Human Rights, Best Interests Assessor, bia
An Assessment of Capacity

I am constantly assessing capacity. It isn’t always done on the formal paperwork that we use when a major decision or one likely to have major consequences is being made. Sometimes it is a simple action that might be almost … Continue reading →...

Published 1 Feb 2011 5:37 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, mental health, MCA, old age, health, Alzheimer's disease, decision-making, Mental Capacity Act 2005, personal, Capacity (law)
The Decision Maker

Over the week, I have a few posts planned about different aspects of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 – it’s partly because I’ve been asked questions specifically about it and partly because I, personally, find the area enormously interesting. Working, …...

Published 31 Jan 2011 6:23 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, older people, dementia, work, mental health, MCA, old age, long-term care, health, carer, Home Care, nursing home, decision-making, mental capacity act, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Court of Protection, personal, Best Interests Assessor, mca 2005, assessing capacity, decision maker
The GJ judgement and DoLs

I’m coming back to Best Interests Assessments and DoLs for a while now so excuse my indulgence but it is something that has and is creeping back into my workload after a few ‘dormant’ months and a part of the reason has been the impact of the ‘GJ’ judgement...

Published 14 Dec 2009 6:50 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, older people, work, mental health, MCA, old age, health, mental health act, mental health act 1983, mental capacity act, Mental disorder, Mental Capacity Act 2005, approved mental health professional, personal, AMHP, Best Interests Assessor, bia, dols, Case law, deprivation of liberty safeguards, mental health act primacy, gj v foundation trust, court of protection case law, mental health act v mental capacity act, gj judgement
The Court of Protection

There was a curious headline in the Mail on Sunday yesterday. I was not curious enough to buy the paper but curious enough to investigate on the Mail website. Apparently, according to the journalist, Secret court seizes £3.2bn from elderly… and...

Published 26 Oct 2009 6:40 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, dementia, work, mental health, MCA, mental capacity, local authority, old age, politics, elderly, long-term care, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Court of Protection, power of attorney, daily mail spouting nonsense, archway tower, lasting power of attorney, enduring power of attorney
Choice

We have been taught and trained to regard choice and individuality, quite rightly, very highly. Choice is fundamental and giving people choice is a key task in developing strengths. Without allowing choice, we float around in a moral vacuum. Without choice...

Published 14 Sep 2009 6:56 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, social issues, older people, work, mental health, local authority, old age, health, mental health act, social worker, mental health act 1983, mental capacity act, Mental Capacity Act 2005, personal, AMHP, autonomy
Decisions

Sometimes the most frustrating aspect of working with adult protection (or rather, safeguarding adults procedures as I believe the common parlance is now) is the lack of ‘places to go’ when there is a lack of hard evidence of abusive behaviour. It is...

Published 22 May 2009 6:09 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, dementia, work, mental health, MCA, old age, elderly, long-term care, uk, health, nursing home, safeguarding adults, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Conditions and Diseases, adult abuse, Care Quality Commission, mca 2005, best interests decision
My First Best Interests Assessment

Yesterday I completed my first Best Interests Assessment since the relatively new Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards went live on 1 April 2009. In brief these assessments grew from the need to clarify the legal position of those who lack capacity when...

Published 18 Apr 2009 7:06 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, older people, dementia, work, mental health, MCA, local authority, old age, long-term care, assessment, health, mental health act assessment, mental capacity act, Mental Capacity Act 2005, General practitioner, AMHP, Best Interests Assessor, best interests assessment, bia, dols, Care Quality Commission, deprivation of liberties safeguards, dols assessment, deprivation of liberties
Assessing Liberty

Two weeks tomorrow, the Deprivation of Liberties Safeguards went live. As of this week, my borough have had two referrals for assessments. I know this as I was asked to complete the first assessment – after some discussion, gracefully withdrew as although...

Published 14 Apr 2009 6:57 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, social issues, older people, work, socialcare, MCA, local authority, old age, social worker, mental capacity act, Mental Capacity Act 2005, AMHP, Best Interests Assessor, best interests assessment, dols, deprivation of liberties safeguards
Do Something

I came across this article last weekend, in the Guardian, about a man, Gordon Stewart, who was a ‘hoarder’. It goes beyond the common definition of ‘hoarding’ though and becomes a major and almost life-threatening degree of hoarding and collection of...

Published 6 Apr 2009 6:17 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, socialcare, old age, elderly, london, human rights, health, local government, national assistance act, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Property, hoarder, s47 national assistance act, hoarding, national assistance act 1947, diogenes syndrome, Environmental Health, s47, Environment, Pest control
DoLs, IMHAs and CQC

Lots of jargon and initials today. I should apologise in advance but they are certainly new phrases and words that will be becoming ever more familiar. Sidelong @ flickr As, 1 April 2009 sees the implementation of three new nuggets of legislation which...

Published 1 Apr 2009 7:06 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, work, mental health, MCA, long-term care, Mental Health Act Commission, National Health Service, Commission for Social Care Inspection, England, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Healthcare Commission, Best Interests Assessor, Care Quality Commission, cqc, imha, independent mental health advocate
Assessing Capacity

We have, over the last 18 months or so, carried out a lot of capacity assessments in our team. Actually, truth be known, we were and have been carrying out capacity assessments for far longer but as far as codified assessments go, the paperwork has been...

Published 28 Mar 2009 9:32 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, older people, dementia, work, carers, MCA, old age, elderly, long-term care, assessment, health, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Court of Protection, Care of residents, mental capacity assessment, Best Interests Assessor
Compulsion

The big difference between the work I am doing now and the work I was doing 18 months ago is the role that compulsion plays in my day to day work. A couple of weeks ago, a nursing student came up to our office - her placement is on the attached ward and...

Published 11 Mar 2009 5:30 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, ASW, mental health, MCA, old age, elderly, london, uk, health, mental health act, social worker, mental health act 1983, mental capacity act, Mental Capacity Act 2005, personal, AMHP, mental health act 2007
Assessing Best Interests - Part 3

After some days back at work, the taught part of the Best Interests Assessor training resumed yesterday - and almost magically as we were promised, lots and lots of the pieces seem to have fallen into place. Just as a recap, this is a short university...

Published 27 Feb 2009 4:39 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, work, mental health, MCA, local authority, london, human rights, uk, health, United Kingdom, Mental Capacity Act 2005, AMHP, European Convention of Human Rights, Best Interests Assessments, Best Interests Assessor, best interests assessor training, deprivation of liberty guidelines, dols
Guardianship - Making decisions

From my earlier posts here and here, I discussed the possible uses of the Mental Health Act and the Mental Capacity Act in a particular scenario. It seemed that in general, the Mental Capacity Act seemed to be offering similar authority as the Mental...

Published 3 Sep 2008 6:21 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: work, mental health, mental health act, approved social worker, mental health act 1983, mental capacity act, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Guardianship, Human Rights Act 1998
Guardianship - What hope for the Mental Capacity Act?

So yesterday, I had found some of the reasons that the Mental Health Act could be used to apply for Guardianship in considering A. The Mental Capacity Act (2005) is fairly new ground - well, over a year now(don’t be fooled by that 2005 thing!) but...

Published 2 Sep 2008 6:13 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, work, ASW, mental health, MCA, local authority, health care, mental health act, mental health act 1983, mental capacity act, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Guardianship, five principles, Court of Protection
Guardianship - or a journey into Section 7 of the Mental Health Act

I was called into one of the CMHT (Community Mental Health Team) meetings last week. It was a bit of a surprise. We don’t tend to go into other peoples’ meetings. It is almost like entering an alternate universe. People have the same roles...

Published 1 Sep 2008 6:25 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, older people, work, ASW, mental health, MCA, old age, elderly, uk, health, mental health act, approved social worker, mental health act 1983, mental capacity act, Mental disorder, Mental Capacity Act 2005, approved mental health professional, Guardianship

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