Update course for MHAAs

This course is specifically MHAA’s. It enables the more experienced to get together and learn and share skills using an evidence base approach in order to fulfil your statutory and non statutory duties as MHAAs on behalf of hospital managers

The course will include an update on recent legal developments which impact on the role of the MHAA

• The approach of the CGC
• A reflection on the extent of your responsibilities
• The basis of the statutory duties (MHA, Code, and Reference Guide)
• Your relationship with hospital managers
• Where do nearest relatives fit in?
• What are, and are not, MHAA responsibilities ?
• Update on Supreme Court decisions of PJ and MM (DoL in conditional discharge and CTOs)
• The implication of the Staffordshire case in managers appeals
  MHAA role in Part 4 (Consent to treatment)
• MHAA and keeping the tribunal happy (reports, capacity issues)
• Recent change to s.117
• Victims – Managers responsibilities and MOJ consultation on victims

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