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Claire Webster @clairetheqsw.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

📢It's here - Get Me To Hospital www.scie.org.uk/mca/practice... A guide for people, families and practitioners when supporting someone to go to hospital who is deemed as unable to make the decision and is refusing. Co-produced with The Stop People Dying Too Young Group. Share away. #NHS #MCA

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Get me to hospital - SCIE

When and how to use the Mental Capacity Act to convey a person to hospital for physical health treatment. Download PDF.

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Claire Webster @clairetheqsw.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I haven't been this excited since the time I sat in a room with Lady Hale and Mr Justice Hayden. Will likely devour this later and report back.

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Claire Webster @clairetheqsw.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Rather pleased to see this in my personal medical notes today.

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Stay Up Late @gigbuddies.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Can you choose your bedtime? We want to know how adults with learning disabilities &/or autistic adults spend their evenings & if they can choose their bedtimes! If you have lived experience/support someone who does – please fill in our survey (online or easy read): stayuplate.org/the-stay-up-...

A bed that has "#No Bedtime" spray painted on it.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh @dawnc05.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

It is not a tragedy that people with learning disabilities and autistic people spend much of their lives locked up in hospitals. This isn’t bad fortune. It is deliberate state sanctioned harm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Autistic woman wrongly locked up in mental health hospital for 45 years

“Kasibba”, who is non-verbal and had no family to speak for her, was one of hundreds wrongly detained.

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Claire Webster @clairetheqsw.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Get Me to Hospital We are working towards a final draft of guidance and discussion on supporting people determined as lacking the capacity to decide to be conveyed to hospital and refusing - using The Mental Capacity Act. Huge thanks to everyone involved. Hope to share the outputs with you all.

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The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Would the public rather the government prioritise spending on access to care in the community, or hospitals? Polling by @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social and @healthfoundation.bsky.social said they'd rather community services. Read more public opinions of the plans for health & care. buff.ly/4kbdQNd

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Claire Webster @clairetheqsw.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

If the solutions don't lie in a clinical approach or system then it should not be ruled or driven by a clinical approach or system. A thought I've been pondering all day.

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Check out the varied range of resources available via the SAAIL website in relation to supporting autistic adults’ intimate lives 👇🏻 #AutRes #AutismResearch #ActuallyAutistic #AcademicSmy

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Ian McCreath @ianmccreath.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Whatever your view on assisted dying, the fact the approach voted through can fundamentally be changed in just two weeks- moving from a court to expert panel-does not calm concerns. If society wants to make a change, it should do so knowing that safeguards can -and will- be changed over time.

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Claire Webster @clairetheqsw.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Who else is watching the CoA live stream - looking at DoL for children!? Will we get any clearer answers on Lieven's challenge to Cheshire West? Probably unlikely but still good background nerd fodder. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m43e... #DoLS #DoL #Health #SocialCare

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Reigniting debate - researchers, self-advocates and family carers have produced this grim timeline of failed promises to Transform Care since Winterbourne View bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...

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Claire Webster @clairetheqsw.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Really important blog and discussion here about the (lack of) evidence.

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Bev Clough @bevclough.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Come and do a fully funded PhD with me and brilliant colleagues @moniquehuy.bsky.social and @suecaton.bsky.social at MMU on Navigating the Mental Capacity Act to support Sexual Decision-Making for People with Learning Disabilities www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Saba Salman @sabasalman.com · 27/01/2025

1 in 100 inquests lead to a prevention of future death report. In 2023, 2 of 569 reports concerned learning disabled and/or autistic people. And many echo the same problems. Vital explainer by @georgejulian.bsky.social Remembering lives of Mia Gauci-Lamport and Peter Seaby. #LearningDisability

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Claire Webster @clairetheqsw.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I don't have any words. It's with this story and many others in my mind that I do everything I can to address the health inequalities and deaths faced by autistic people and people with learning disabilities. BBC News - Coroner raises concerns over vulnerable man's death www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Coroner raises concerns over vulnerable man's Hull hospital death

An inquest in Hull finds that David Lodge died of "natural causes contributed to by neglect".

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Claire Webster @clairetheqsw.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Top MCA tips as I travel home on the train: 1. Plan ahead, while you're able to make the decision. 2. Be clear what the decision is. 3. Don't think about a capacity assessment unless you've tried things to support the person to make the decision without success. Oh and it applies at the age of 16.

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Claire Webster @clairetheqsw.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Hi all - hopefully start to see some old faces. Hopefully share my usual thoughts soon around MCA/MHA, autism, learning disabilities, ICB system approaches and general eagerness for learning and working, together 😊

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