[Shameless plug warning]. Three new books have landed on my desk in short order, in which chapters I have written… Read more
Sex, ageing, death and capacity – new books
Category: Miscellaneous
Equal Treatment Bench Book – new edition
A new (2024) edition of the Equal Treatment Bench Book (ETBB) has been published. As it notes in the preface: Treating… Read more
Mental Capacity & Homelessness – National Practitioner Survey 2024
[A message on behalf of this brilliant[1] project: Use of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 with people experiencing multiple exclusion… Read more
End of life care: improving DNACPR conversations for everyone
An important (but depressingly familiar) report from the Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman has been published today, 14 March 2024. The… Read more
Updated guidance note on relevant information for different categories of decision
As the Court of Protection judges have been very busy over the past little while looking at different categories of… Read more
10 years since Cheshire West, the House of Lords scrutinised the MCA 2005 in action, and this website started…
March 2024 contains three ten year anniversaries. One is national – indeed international – significance; one is of national significance,… Read more
Guest post – the risks of ReSPECT
[I am very pleased to be able to host here a guest post by Richard Charlton and Bharati Gidoomal, two… Read more
Independent review of disagreements in the care of critically ill children – the report and recommendations
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has today, 18 September 2023, published the report of the review it was commissioned in… Read more
“Proportional assessments,” remote assessments, the Care Act and the MCA – an update
I posted a few weeks ago about new guidance on carrying out proportionate assessments under the Care Act 2014 published… Read more
“Proportional assessments,” remote assessments, the Care Act and the MCA
Chief social worker for adults Lyn Romeo and principal social workers have issued (8 August 2023) guidance on carrying out… Read more