Emotions Clinic, Education and Training Centre
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Empowering People: Making them Partners in Diagnosis Making and Management
One day Conference
Mental Capacity Assessments: Practical Aspects & Legal, Ethical & Moral Dilemmas
North Staffs Medical Institute, Hartshill, Stoke on Trent, ST4 7NY
Organised by:
Emotions Clinic, Training and Education Centre Community interest Company
08 February 2025
14.40 -15.00 Harsh Jhingan, Consultant Psychiatrist, Leicestershire NHS Trust
Some reflections on why the rates of ADHD are Rocketing
Tentative Programme
- Mental Capacity Act – Salient features.
- The interface between law, social care and medicine.
- Mental Capacity Act: The grey areas, gaps in the law and controversies.
- Mental Capacity issues around Assisted Dying.
- Mental capacity assessments in Palliative care.
- DoLs: Implementation and other practical aspects, and future directions.
- Who can assess complex cases and the boundary issues.
- The complexities of capacity assessments in CAMHS settings.
- Group Discussion – Case scenarios of difficult cases and complex decisions.
- The need for Reforms – Future Directions.