The Mental Capacity Act (MCA) came into force in 2007. It is designed to protect and restore power to those vulnerable people who may lack capacity to make certain decisions, due to the way their mind is affected by illness or disability, or the effects of drugs or alcohol. The MCA also supports those who have capacity and choose to plan for their future.
We asked the MCA team at Dorset Council how the Dorset Care Record (DCR) is helping them in their day to day work and here are their replies:
Val: “It has been useful to check on whether people have been discharged from hospital as it has the information very quickly. I was also recently able to find out that a person who moved out of our area had died… and was still on our Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS) waiting list. This information was not on Mosaic (Dorset Council’s adults system), so I was able to click straight onto the DCR tab for the update. Also (it) can confirm a diagnosis has been made of a mental disorder, eg. dementia and when.”
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