Introduction This guidance support trusts and community providers to enable front line staff to fulfil their legal requirements around the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005; specifically when supporting ...

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Mental health is often treated as an afterthought, but employers would be wise to prevent stress in the first place.

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Health Secretary Wes Streeting told the Commons he is considering 'very carefully' a law change that Fiona Laskaris believes ...