Module 3 Quiz – Mental Capacity & Consent

Question 1: According to the Mental Capacity Act, if patients are unable to demonstrate that they have the capacity to make a given decision, the professionals need to act in their best interests

Question 2: Patients must always be told everything about a given treatment in order for their consent to be valid and ‘informed’

Question 3: In the Mental Health Act, ‘Medical treatment’ can include cognitive behavioural therapy

Question 4: For a patient to lack capacity, all that is necessary is that the Stage 1 diagnostic test and the Stage 2 functional test of capacity are met.

Question 5: For an advanced decision relating to withholding of life-saving treatment to be valid, it must be written, signed, and witnessed

Question 6: Lasting Power of Attorney can come into effect before the patient loses capacity

Question 7: When ECT is proposed for a detained patient, an RC certificate of consent to treatment, or one issued by a SOAD, is required once the patient has been in hospital for three months.

Question 8: ECT can be given to a patient who capacitously refuses it, as long as the RC states that urgent treatment is necessary in order to save the person’s life.

Question 9: A patient is recalled from their CTO four months after it commenced. They request a hypnotic, which is not on their CTO12, and are capacitously consenting. The RC (or AC in charge of treatment as appropriate) could authorise this via a T2 certificate.

Question 10: A detained patient who is prescribed clozapine alongside hyoscine hydrobromide for hypersalivation, sodium valproate as seizure prophylaxis, and docusate sodium for clozapine-induced constipation, needs all of these medications to be authorised via T2 or T3 as appropriate