Venue: Sense Touchbase Pears, Birmingham, 750 Bristol Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 6NA
Date and time: Tuesday 2 December 2025, 13:00 - 16:00
Overview
We’re delighted to let you know that the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) is offering FREE sessions in a short tour to Leeds, London and Birmingham (October to December 2025) to explore our ‘Get me to hospital’ guidance and how it relates to your everyday practice.
The guidance covers issues around supporting people under the Mental Capacity Act (MCA, different to the Mental Health Act), who are assessed as unable to make their own decision to be conveyed to hospital for physical treatment, and therefore require a decision to be made in their best interests. SCIE created the guidance in response to evidence demonstrating that practitioners may struggle to make these decisions.
The focus is on supporting both the person at the centre of decisions relating to hospital admission, and the practitioner responsible for arranging, or undertaking, the process of getting someone to hospital. It also looks to address potential health inequalities where incorrect use of the MCA has led people to suffer harm, including death, from potentially preventable conditions
Who is this for?
This session will be for individuals, their carers and family members. The in-person session will be an opportunity to launch the easy read version of the guidance and for us to find out more about what the guidance means for people, and what we can do to support use of the guidance.
We expect demand to be high, so please only book if you are available to attend. If you need to cancel your booking, please the Eventbrite confirmation link to cancel as early as possible, so that we can release places for other participants.
Final numbers need to be confirmed with the venue before the events.
We will be providing refreshments during each of the sessions; lunch will not be provided.
‘Get me to hospital’ is just one of SCIE’s range of evidence-based resources and practical information created to support best practice, co-production and innovation in social care.
Bookings will close Friday 28 November.
