Mental Capacity and Best Interests
Join us for this lunchtime learning session aimed at GPs and other clinical staff working in Lincolnshire General Practice!
Delivered via Microsoft Teams this useful bitesize session will cover the following topics -
- Paternalism and autonomy – the shape of the Mental Capacity Act
- Making decisions and available options
- Assessing capacity
- The best interests decision maker, and the role of family and LPAs
- Best interests decisions, and when to go to Court.
- Q&A
A huge thank you to our trainer, Ben Troke, partner at Weightmans LLP, for providing this session.
Ben has 25 years’ experience working as a lawyer in the health and social care sector and is a Partner at the Weightmans Leeds office.
Acting for health and social care providers and commissioners nationwide, including the NHS, local authorities and private sector, Ben has been rated as one of the leading Court of Protection lawyers in the country for more than a decade.
Ben's expertise covers issues of consent and mental health and mental capacity/best interests decision making, both for adults and children, as well as wider issues around delayed or disputed discharges, deprivation of liberty, safeguarding, confidentiality and duty of candour. Ben routinely deals with out of hours and emergency issues about medical treatment, including urgent court applications.
Ben has a masters' degree in medical law and ethics, and is also a qualified mediator, with a particular interest in the use of mediation to resolve medical treatment disputes outside court.
