Failing to consult best interests consultees before revising a care plan

Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Health Authority, ex p Perry [2001] Lloyd’s Rep Med 73 (QBD)

Leave a Comment / Breaching article 8 by making it a condition of ongoing care that one moves home to new supported living, Failing to balance the pros and cons of changing an incapacitated person's daily living arrangements, Failing to consult best interests consultees before revising a care plan, Mental Capacity Act provisions relevant to care or support plan revisions, Public law principles relevant to care or support plan revisions, Rationality and relevant considerations, in the context of care planning, Reviews and Revisions (cuts or changes to content) /

Closure – hospital — home for life – consultation It was necessary to consider the individual circumstances of each resident of a long-stay hospital for people with profound learning disabilities before making a decision to close the hospital. It was also necessary to look at all that the health authority had said to the residents […]

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AG (by her litigation friend the Official Solicitor) v BMBC & SNH [2016]

Leave a Comment / Authority to consent on behalf of others to touching, bodily interventions, restraint or deprivation of liberty, Care Planning, Budgets and Choice Rights, DoLS and CoP authorisation of restrictive regimes in the context of care planning, Due process rights in care planning, Emergencies and vital acts justifying deprivation of liberty before a court application is heard, Failing to consult best interests consultees before revising a care plan, How the Mental Capacity Act affects the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act provisions relevant to care or support plan revisions, Overview of what is required by the rules on Deprivation of Liberty, under the DoL Safeguards, Procedural safeguards before meeting needs with a regime that amounts to Deprivation of Liberty, Remedies for breach of the Mental Capacity Act regarding deprivation of liberty, Reviews and Revisions (cuts or changes to content) /

AG (by her litigation friend the Official Solicitor) v BMBC & SNH [2016] Keywords: DoLS, restrictions, medication, covert administration FACTS: AG was 92 and had Alzheimer’s dementia. In October 2014, the council’s (BMBC) memory team had become concerned about her. She was described as living in squalor, with no food or means to prepare it

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