Mental Capacity and Dementia
Mental Capacity & Dementia
All of your patients, whatever their capacities and needs, must be able to use your services safely. Those who cannot make all of their own decisions must have their best interests both expressed and respected. You must help to protect the dignity and human rights of all patients. Mental capacity and dementia training from Rosette CPD will help you keep on top of this sensitive, demanding and evolving area of healthcare. Maggie Heath’s courses will ensure you meet your legal, regulatory, and compliance obligations, and that you can confidently provide safe and appropriate treatment to all your patients.
All Rosette CPD’s courses provide reportable, verifiable CPD training towards your General Dental Council (GDC) CPD (continuing professional development) goals. Training in the Mental Capacity Act and having dementia awareness knowledge and skills are applicable across the health care industry, so your team will learn transferable skills.
Rosette CPD delivers custom-designed CPD courses to healthcare and dental practices. Maggie Heath designs engaging, up-to-date training that adds real-life practical skills to proven technical expertise. Maggie is an experienced healthcare CPD specialist, who has been delivering outstanding in-house training to dental and healthcare practices for more than 10 years.
Mental Capacity and Dementia: The Law and Your Responsibilities
The rights of people who cannot make all decisions for themselves are protected by the Mental Capacity Act (2005). The Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice introduces the guidance to healthcare professionals and advises what is expected of them.
Guidelines from the National Institute for Healthcare Excellence also gives specific mental capacity guidance for health and social care practitioners. This includes advice on how to support people to make the decisions (the overriding assumption of the Act); to keep patients involved in decisions they cannot make fully on their own, and how to make decisions in a patient’s best interest.
The Care Quality Commission (in Wales, Healthcare Inspectorate Wales) inspects healthcare providers. The five questions – Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOEs), which CQC inspections are based on, include asking whether services and staff are Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led.
In its enhanced CPD scheme, the GDC recommends regular training in: Legal and ethical issues and safeguarding, including safeguarding for vulnerable adults.
The GDC has also published Standards for the Dental Team, which includes standards that help protect patients who may not be able to make all decisions about their care themselves. This includes assessing the ability of patients to make decisions; providing appropriate patient care in a holistic way that takes account of all of a patient’s needs; and providing treatment that is in a patient’s best interests.
Rosette CPD Mental Capacity and Dementia Training
Rosette CPD’s Mental Capacity and Dementia Training gives an excellent insight and provides a comprehensive guidance to managing and delivering safe care to patients that will equip you to meet all your legal and regulatory requirements.
The course includes:
The Mental Capacity Act (2005).
The principles of the Mental Capacity Act.
Making capacity assessments and understanding what the patient’s best interests are.
Who “decision makers” in health care, are.
Keeping decision records.
What assistance is available for patients and advocates
Understanding dementia.
Enabling and empowering patients.
This course can be taken alone or as part of Rosette CPD’s complete curriculum of training courses for dental and healthcare professionals and practices that includes a course in safeguarding.
After the course you will:
Be able to meet your duties under the Mental Capacity Act (2005) and associated guidelines and recommendations, including the CQC Fundamental Standards. (and Wales Healthcare Inspectorate Standards)
Be able to give all of your patients safe care that respects their wishes and their best interests, and protects their human rights.
Be able to report 2 hours of verified, certificated CPD training towards your GDC CPD targets.
Have a team who can support all patients in accessing your services safely and with dignity.
Demonstrate to all of your patients, their carers or representatives, with certificated course completions that all of your staff have the skills and information they need to meet their needs.
Healthcare Compliance Consultant
Maggie Heath is also an experienced compliance consultant and can provide expert advice for inspection preparation visits on this and all other areas of regulated health care.
Meet Your Healthcare CPD Training Needs Today
To find out more about Rosette CPD’s comprehensive programme of specialist dental and healthcare training call Maggie today on 07791 990297. Or visit our contact page to send an email and to start meeting your dental practice's CPD needs.