The Autonomy Project Research Team is working actively with its partners to provide research support to policy makers and practitioners in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Please feel free to contact our team (autonomy@essex.ac.uk) if we can provide research support in the context of the pandemic.
Alex Ruck Keene’s guidance and resource page, updated regularly:
https://www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/resources-2/covid-19-and-the-mca-2005/
UPDATE: See below for a webinar on deprivation of liberty and 16/17 year olds, from Alex Ruck Keene and Camilla Parker.
Click here to register for future NMCF webinars, and to view recordings of previous webinars.
Click here to access materials about our work on ethical and human rights issues raised by scarcity of essential supplies.
Please feel free to contact our team (autonomy@essex.ac.uk) if we can provide research support in the context of the pandemic.
The National Mental Capacity Forum is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Justice and the Department of Health and Social Care. Its purpose is to work with stakeholders from health and social care to identify actions which member organisations can pursue, especially at a local level, to improve implementation of the MCA. This page will be used as a clearing house for information pertaining to a series of rapid response NCMF Webinars to be hosted by the Autonomy Project. Please return to this page to find information about registration, as well as materials from the webinars themselv
NMCF Webinar 1: (***THIS EVENT IS IN THE PAST***)
Sharing Voices in Response to COVID-19
1 April, 2020; 16:30-17:30
The information provided in these slides and in the webinar recording was correct as of the time of the webinar. Updated information on this fast-moving area of law and public policy will be provided at the next NMCF forum.
slides: 1st April Slides
Full webinar recording:
Chair: Baroness Ilora Finlay
Technical Host: Prof Wayne Martin
Panelists:
Alex Ruck Keene
Baroness Sheila Hollins
Rachel Griffiths
Ros Taylor
Margaret Flynn
Chelle Farnan
NMCF Webinar 2: (***THIS EVENT IS IN THE PAST***)
Covid-19, DoLS, and Best Interests
28 April, 2020 (16:30-17:30)
slides: 28th April slides
Full webinar recording:
Chair: Baroness Ilora Finlay
Technical Host: Prof Wayne Martin
Panelists:
Alex Wakefield
Tim Spencer-Lane
Elin Jones
Samantha Clark
Lorraine Currie
Alex Ruck Keene
Jack Parry Jones
See below for an additional recorded webinar from Alex Ruck Keene, Lorraine Currie and Chelle Farnan, on carrying out remote assessments during the pandemic:
NMCF Webinar 3: (***THIS EVENT IS IN THE PAST***)
Public Health and Human Rights in the COVID-19 Pandemic
3 June, 2020
Slides: 3rd June slides
If the above file is too large, a pdf version is available here: NMCF Webinar 3 Slides pdf
Full webinar recording:
Chair: Baroness Ilora Finlay
Technical Host: Prof Wayne Martin
Panelists:
Lorraine Currie
Grace Currie
Kelechi Nnoaham
Chelle Farnan
Ruby Farnan
Alex Ruck Keene
Sheila Hollins
Keith Brown
Additional Webinar on COVID 19 Testing
Alex Ruck Keene, Chelle Farnan and Dr Elizabeth Alton discuss testing for COVID-19, focusing in particular on dilemmas and good practice where the person has impaired decision-making capacity.
Full recording:
Additional Webinar on Deprivation of Liberty and 16/17 Year Olds
Alex Ruck Keene and Camilla Parker discuss the complexities of the law relating to deprivation of liberty in this area, and go through the practice guidance they have produced for Research in Practice.
Link to page with full recording:
Scarcity in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Bioethical and Human Rights Analysis
In collaboration with the Ethics of Powerless project and the Essex Human Rights Centre, the Autonomy Project has produced a technical report on bioethical and human rights issues raised by triage during the Covid-19 pandemic.
See the full report below:
In collaboration with the Essex Explores public lecture series, Prof Wayne Martin (Director of the Autonomy Project) delivered an online public lecture on Wednesday, 29 April, 7-8pm. Title: The Ethics of Triage: Philosophy in the Time of COVID-19.
See the full recording below:
