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Mental capacity assessments: working in practice?: initial findings from the Mental Health Foundation's assessment of mental capacity audit tool (AMCAT)
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Mental Health Foundation has developed online resources to help staff working in health and social care, including those in the private and voluntary sectors, as well as unpaid carers, to improve the way they assess mental capacity. The Assessment of Mental Capacity Audit Tool (AMCAT) provides a free, confidential and simple way for staff working in health and social care settings to audit and evaluate mental capacity assessment of individuals that they have been involved with. The tool also provides an instantaneous, automated report that indicates to the person who has completed the tool how well the assessment accorded with the Mental Capacity Act and its Code of Practice. This report provides initial findings from an assessment of the tool. It shows the reasons for carrying out the assessment, noting that the main reasons were that the person had dementia (38%), a mental illness (27%), or a learning disability (18%). Although 33% of respondents said that they carried out the assessment because the person was having a problem making a decision, 38% said they carried out the assessment because of the person's disability, history, diagnosis, illness, age, appearance, or behaviour. The report also outlines how assessments were carried out.