Advocacy Blog Posts

• Empowering mental health service users to become more involved in decisions about their care: the DECIDE RCT

  28 Aug 2014

  • Laurence Palfreyman

  
• Challenges in respecting autonomy in end-of-life care of people with learning disabilities

  23 Jun 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• Experience of involvement of people with learning disabilities in staff recruitment

  03 Mar 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• Review finds lack of published, robust evidence on impact of advocacy in social care services

  03 Feb 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• CQC still concerned about lack of understanding of Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

  20 Jan 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• Best interests decision research reports complexity of practice and concerns about notion of capacity

  17 Jan 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• Effective circles of support recommended for success of strategies to reduce abuse in people with learning disabilities

  08 Jan 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• Good practice projects in supporting people with learning disabilities identified in DH project report

  13 Dec 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Adults with learning disabilities were able to consent to involvement in low risk health research if given information in appropriate format

  06 Nov 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Disability Hate Crime Awareness Week throws spotlight on campaign to improve understanding and support

  16 Oct 2013

  • John Northfield