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Stronger mental capacity assessments could be added to assisted dying bill

The assisted dying Bill could have “enhanced protections” added regarding assessments of mental capacity, Parliament heard during the final debate on the legislation this year. Labour peer Lord ...
Community Care

When mental capacity assessments must delve beneath what people say to what they do

A term that is often misunderstood, in the context of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, is ‘material time’, which is used at section 2(1) of the MCA: "For the purposes of this Act, a person lacks capacity ...
Community Care

Executive functioning and the Mental Capacity Act 2005: points for practice

Practical advice from a Community Care Inform guide on how to assess capacity and make best interests decisions where a person has executive functioning difficulties Photo: Krasimira ...
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Stronger mental capacity assessments could be added to assisted dying Bill

Lord Falconer of Thornton and Kim Leadbeater MP join Dignity in Dying campaigners in Parliament Square, London (David Parry Media Assignments/PA) The assisted dying Bill could have “enhanced ...