{"id":504,"date":"2026-04-28T17:05:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/d81055\/?p=504"},"modified":"2026-07-06T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:06:08","slug":"mental-capacity-assessments-and-financial-lasting-power-of-attorney-lpa-paperwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/d81055\/mental-capacity-assessments-and-financial-lasting-power-of-attorney-lpa-paperwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Capacity Assessments and Financial Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) Paperwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our GP practice is unable to provide formal mental capacity assessments or complete paperwork relating to financial Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) applications.<\/p>\n<p>This type of work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is\u00a0outside the scope of our NHS General Medical Services (GMS) contract<\/li>\n<li>Is\u00a0not commissioned or funded\u00a0by our Integrated Care Board (ICB) as part of core GP services<\/li>\n<li>Requires\u00a0specific training and separate professional indemnity\u00a0, which our GPs do not hold for this non-NHS work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given the significant pressures on general practice, we must prioritise our core NHS clinical duties to patients.<\/p>\n<p>For formal capacity assessments or completion of financial LPA documentation, you will need to seek an appropriately trained and indemnified professional, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A solicitor with experience in Court of Protection \/ LPA work<\/li>\n<li>A specialist clinician or independent practitioner who offers this service privately<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We appreciate your understanding as we focus our limited resources on essential NHS care<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our GP practice is unable to provide formal mental capacity assessments or complete paperwork relating to financial Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) applications. This type&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"1970-01-01 01:00:00","action":"","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","browser_timezone_offset":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/d81055\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/d81055\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/d81055\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/d81055\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/d81055\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/d81055\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/d81055\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgerywebtemp.org.uk\/d81055\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}