Understanding clinical decision-making at the interface of the Mental Health Act (1983) and the Mental Capacity Act (2005)
Source: The King’s Fund Health Management and Policy Alert
The Mental Health Act (1983) (MHA) and the Mental Capacity Act (2005) (MCA) both provide a legal means by which people can be deprived of their liberty and admitted to hospital on a formal basis when they lack capacity to consent to their admission and treatment. A key interface of the MHA and the MCA arises where an individual lacks the capacity to decide whether to be admitted to hospital to receive care and treatment, and are not objecting to admission or treatment, then the decision of which Act to use for these purposes is that of professionals involved. This report looks at that decision-making process.
The February edition of Community Mental Health Services Bulletin, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download. The links to abstracts have been activated in this bulletin, so if you click on the title. If you would like to read the full article, please contact the library team: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
Whether you’re a student or a team member tasked with writing a business paper, this article leads you through the basics of citing your sources: why it’s important, what the main kinds of citation are, and how to organize them.
(This report reveals the intersecting crises of rising unemployment, abusive employment practices, inadequate housing and increasing food poverty facing the Latin American community. This is compounded by digital exclusion and the language barrier, meaning that many find it difficult to access mainstream support. The lack of access to basic health care raises concerns about the rollout of the vaccine among the community.)
(Report looks at how effectively government identified and met the needs of clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) people. It found there was impressive initial support offered to many people, but it took time for people to be identified as CEV, and therefore access formal support.)
Binge eating disorder will affect one in fifty of us in our lifetime, it is the most common but least understood. It isn’t about being greedy or lacking in willpower, but a serious mental illness which many suffer with alone, often with the fear of how others might react the reason they don’t reach out for help.
Beat Eating Disorder have a range of resources to help spread awareness and start conversations on this topic. Click here to access.
The Library also has a selection of Eating Disorder texts. Visit our catalogue to view the range of titles. We can send these directly to you if you cannot access the Gosall Library. Please email: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk stating the book you would like to borrow.
QCovid® is an evidence-based risk prediction model that estimates a person’s combined risk of catching coronavirus and being admitted to hospital or catching coronavirus and dying.
Charlie Connelly is a bestselling author and award-winning broadcaster. His many books include Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round The Shipping Forecast, In Search of Elvis: A Journey To Find The Man Beneath The Jumpsuit and And Did Those Feet: Walking Through 2000 Years Of British And Irish History. Three of his books have featured as Radio 4′s Book of the Week read by Martin Freeman, Stephen Mangan and Tom Goodman-Hill.
Charlie was also a popular presenter on the BBC1 Holiday programme and co-presented the first three series of BBC Radio 4′s Traveller’s Tree with Fi Glover.
His book Gilbert: The Last Years of WG Grace was shortlisted for the 2016 MCC/Cricket Society Book of the Year. The book he wrote with his friend Bernard Sumner, Chapter And Verse: New Order, Joy Division And Me was shortlisted for Book of the Year at the NME Awards, while his most recent co-writing project, Winner: A Racing Life with the champion jockey AP McCoy was shortlisted for Sports Autobiography of the Year.
His book, Last Train to Hilversum, was published by Bloomsbury in 2019 and is followed by his latest work, The Channel, published in 2020.
He has written comedy scripts for BBC radio and RTÉ radio in Ireland and made documentaries for BBC Radio 4 on subjects as diverse as the poetry of Noel Coward and the legendary cricket coach Alf Gover.
As our featured author, Charlie has kindly answered a few questions for us about books that have entertained and inspired him and his work as an author.
February Reading for Health Book of the Month:The Wreck by Meg Keneally
I will go with the men when they rise. Women hunger, and women die, so women must also fight. 1820, London. Sarah McCaffrey, fleeing arrest for her part in a failed rebellion, finds herself alone and on the run. She boards the Serpent, bound from London to the colony of New South Wales – and when the captain’s reckless actions lead the ship to be dashed onto Sydney’s notorious rocks, Sarah is the only survivor. Adopting a false identity, Sarah determines to make a new life for herself. She takes the first work she can find, under the formidable Molly Thistle, who runs a sprawling trade empire. Sarah begins to see that there is more than one way of changing the world, but her new life is thrown into chaos when her past follows her across the seas.
The Wreck is a warm, intelligent and feminist novel, rich in history but deeply relevant to today’s world.
It’s currently available for free on the Borrow Box app as an eBook and eAudiobook. It is one of their always available titles, so it means that you won’t have to queue to borrow the book – Just download it instantly. For anyone to access this, you will just need a Lancashire library card (you can apply here if you don’t already have one) and download the Borrow Box app for free from the Google Play or App Store. Alternatively, you could also reserve a physical copy from one of the reopened libraries.
Monthly round-up of the latest NHS performance data.
Source: KnowledgeShare
NHS England and NHS Digital have published the latest data on key activity and performance measures for December of last year and January of this year. Urgent and Emergency Care Daily Situation Reports were also published for the first week of February, giving a more up-to-date analysis of how the NHS is coping this winter. They show some of these statistics and how they compare with previous trends.
