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Experiences of adults from a Black ethnic background detained as inpatients under the MHA
People from a Black ethnic (BE) background in England and Wales are disproportionately detained as inpatients under the United Kingdom's...
Mar 21, 2023


Facts About Refugees and Seeking Asylum
Sometimes, during Edge training courses a question may arise about a person that is seeking asylum or has been granted refugee status....
Mar 14, 2023


Secure Contracts (Wales) and the Mental Capacity Act 2005
If you have issued new Secure Contracts following the introduction of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016, it is important that the former...
Mar 8, 2023


Deprivation of liberty and children
In March last year Mr Justice MacDonald ruled on a case involving a 14 year old girl with Autistic Spectrum Disorder who was deprived of...
Feb 27, 2023


Ramadan and Diabetes
There are a number of FREE upcoming courses on the management of diabetes through Ramadan for patients, carers and professionals. IN...
Feb 23, 2023


Safe and Wellbeing Reviews: Thematic Review and Lessons Learned
On 21st February, the government published its report entitled Safe and Wellbeing Reviews: Thematic Review and Lessons Learned. The...
Feb 22, 2023


General Medical Council (GMC)- How we Approach Fairness and Bias- Actions for 2023
In order to produce this report, the GMC spoke to over 40 GMC and Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) staff and 900 additional...
Feb 20, 2023


The Mental Health Tribunal First Edition by Neil Hickman & Christine Hutchison
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Feb 10, 2023


CONSENT, CONFIDENTIALITY & INFORMATION SHARING IN MENTAL HEALTHCARE & SUICIDE PREVENTION
A useful new guide funded by the DHSC is now available. It states: ‘Consent, confidentiality and the sharing of information, both between...
Feb 10, 2023


Consent and Health Screenings- Easy Read Guides
If you support someone that may need an easy read guide to health screenings, this collection of books by Beyond Words may be very...
Feb 8, 2023


DoLS - the right to see family and friends
The issue of restrictions on seeing family and friends for people living in care homes continues. BIAs assessing people for DoLS need to...
Jan 23, 2023


Ombudsman and DoLS
15th November 2022, the Ombudsman found that London Borough of Sutton was at fault for allowing a standard DoLS to expire. The case...
Jan 17, 2023


Medication and Local Authority responsibilities
Two recent Ombudsman cases have highlighted the responsibilities of local authorities in relation to medication Buckinghamshire Council A...
Jan 16, 2023


Community Treatment Orders (CTO) and the Mental Capacity Act
Community Treatment Orders (CTO) and the Mental Capacity Act The Court of Protection has recently published an interesting example of...
Jan 9, 2023


Mental Health Act or DoLS
Detention of people with mental disorder in England - what happens when you bring together two different sets of annual statistics.......
Jan 6, 2023


Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) and the Mental Capacity Act
A new report by the CQC looking at the use of Community Treatment Orders under the Mental Health Act raises a series of concerns about...
Jan 5, 2023
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