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Key Updates For Healthcare Professionals on: Consent, Capacity, Ethics, DNAR, Deprivation of Liberty and Advance Healthcare Directives

A one-day conference

Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin

Date: 30th November 2017

The law in regards to caring for vulnerable adults, adolescents, end of life care patients and children is rapidly changing and evolving in Ireland and It is important that all healthcare and legal professionals operating in the medical profession fully understand recent developments in relation to Consent, Capacity, Ethics and Advance Healthcare Directives.

CMG events typically sell out quickly, so prompt booking is strongly advised to secure your place at the Early Bird Rate of €335.00 + VAT (Normal rate €435.00 + VAT). 

Please note the early bird discount can close sooner than expected once a certain amount of seats fill up, therefore your prompt booking is strongly advised to avoid disappointment

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This one day conference will provide an important opportunity for delegates to hear from leading experts in this space, network and discuss important current developments you need to note going forward. This conference will also provide you with the opportunity to exchange ideas hear of recent cases that are setting a precedent going forward and listen to others who are working in this area, their experiences and come away with best methods to implement for patients going forward.

This is a must attend event for all professionals working in Ireland’s healthcare services or the legal system surrounding it.

This event will be of real interest to all healthcare professionals who deal with vulnerable adults, children, adolescents, obstetrics including social workers, Midwifes, nurses, directors of nursing, GP’s, Ward managers, carers, legal representatives and those who deal with end of life care.

Full Day Programme 8.50am to 4pm

Opening Remarks from Conference Chairperson:
Jack Nagle, CEO, Alpha Healthcare

Healthcare & Medical Ethics
Speaker: Dr. Noreen O’Carroll, M.A., H. Dip.Ed., Ph.D., DPMSA, Lecturer in Medical Ethics, RCSI

  • Approaches to ethical dilemmas
  • Ethical reasoning skills
  • The Four Principles method of ethical decision-making in healthcare
  • The BMA’s approach to medical ethics
  • The Principle of Double Effect
  • Case studies

Ethical decision-making in end-of-life care
Speaker: Louise Campbell, Lecturer, NUI Galway

  • The ethical foundations of consent
  • Principles of shared decision-making in end-of-life care
  • A decision-making tool for building clinical ethics capacity in Irish health professionals 
  • Application of the tool to a case involving a DNA-CPR order

Advance Care Planning: Advance Healthcare Directives
Speaker: Deirdre Shanagher, Development Officer, Irish Hospice Foundation

  • What is an Advance Healthcare Directive?
  • Distinction between treatment refusal and treatment request
  • Applicability of an Advance Healthcare Directive
  • Is there any liability if an Advance Healthcare Directive is not followed?
  • What to do if there is not an advanced care plan in place and someone gets a stroke or other sudden illness

Informed Consent
Speaker: Dr Andrea Mulligan, Barrister-at-Law, Law Library/Trinity College Dublin

  • Why is consent important?
  • What is informed consent?
  • Refusal of consent for adults with capacity
  • Underpinning principles
  • Disclosure of information – who, what, when and why?
  • Importance of good communication
  • Is consent always necessary?
  • Documentation of consent

Consent in Vulnerable Adults & those with Mental Health Issues
Speaker: Ciara Johnson, Barrister-at-Law, The Law Library – Lecturer in law, St. Angela’s College, Sligo

Vulnerable Adults

  • What is a vulnerable adult?
  • In what circumstances are they unable to provide legal consent?
  • How does the practitioner resolve such a challenge?
  • Proposals for Reform

Adults with mental health issues

  • Rights based approach
  • The interaction of consent & capacity  with the Mental Health Act 2001
  • Proposals for Reform

Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015
Speaker: Mary Kirwan, Barrister & Lecturer, RCSI

Capacity:

  • Draft guidelines from the HSE
  • How it is to be defined and assessed
  • The functional approach to decision making capacity
  • Presuming and maximising decision making capacity
  • Principles that will apply in relation to any intervention where capacity is in question
  • Declarations as to Capacity
  • Categories of decision-making
  • Functions of the Decision Support Service
  • Review of Wards of Court

Enduring Power of Attorney

  • Formalities for the execution of an Enduring Power of Attorney
  • Suitability of a person to be an attorney
  • Scope of authority under an Enduring Power of Attorney
  • Registration and reporting requirements
  • Functions of the Court in relation to an Enduring Power of Attorney

Hague Convention on International Protection of Adults

Consent & children / adolescents
Speaker: Asim A. Sheikh, Barrister-at-Law, The Law Library

  • Basic principles of consent particularly with Children / adolescents
  • The Gillick competence test and the Irish position
  • Refusal of treatment by Under 16s
  • Parents refusal of treatment of children
  • Where parents differ on treatment
  • Minor’s consent to psychiatric treatment

There will be 6 structured CPD points awarded to all attendees at this conference from the CPD certification service

Mary Kirwan

Mary Kirwan

Barrister-at-Law, Lecturer in RCSI

Mary is a barrister and lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

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She teaches medical law on the undergraduate and postgraduate Ethics programme in the RCSI.

She is a dissertation director for the MSc Healthcare Ethics and Law course and provides training seminars in hospitals on medico/legal issues.
Mary Kirwan is a graduate of the National University of Ireland Galway and the Honorable Society of Kings Inns.

Mary is also a winner of the Law Society of Ireland Justice Media Award for her writing on current legal topics. She has written extensively in the area of law, including a weekly legal column in the Irish Independent, and is a frequent legal contributor in national and local broadcast media, including RTE’s Prime Time.

Mary is currently a member of a number of committees including a Research Ethics Committee, an Ethics Committee and an Advisory Panel.
Mary provides expert legal advice to various organisations on a voluntary basis and previously worked with the Legal Aid Board.

Dr. Andrea Mulligan

Dr. Andrea Mulligan

Barrister-at-Law, The Law Library and Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin

Dr. Andrea Mulligan is a barrister practising in the field of public and regulatory law, with a specialisation in data protection law.

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A graduate of Trinity College Dublin (LL.B, and Ph.D) and Harvard Law School (LL.M), Andrea is an Assistant Professor at the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin.

Dr. Jack Nagle

Dr. Jack Nagle

CEO, Alpha Healthcare

Jack is the founder and CEO of Alpha Healthcare, an Irish company dedicated to providing business and management support to Clinicians and healthcare professionals in Ireland and the UK.

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The company specialises in benchmarking and healthcare change management and has worked with more than 100 primary care centres. The company won an award for primary care centre initiatives in 2011.

In 2009, the company established Alpha Primary Care (APC) in the UK and has worked in practices in Manchester, Newcastle and London. APC formed a strategic partnership with the NHS Alliance in 2010 focused on practice standards and key performance indicators for general practice. The company has done extensive work in supporting practices in London, with a combined list of 350,000 patients supporting them with registration and compliance to the Care Quality Commission’s standards and in setting up Quality Management Systems.

Jack has been approved by the Institute of Leadership & Management to give training in the areas of practice business management in healthcare.

Jack has a keen interest in all healthcare system related matters and a particular interest in Total Quality Management, Quality Management Systems and implementing Kaizen events and change management in healthcare.

He is a non-executive Board Member of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF).

Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin

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