This education session is being delivered as part of the GP Fellowship Education Programme and is open to Cambridgeshire and Peterborough GPs who are enrolled on the GP Fellowship and ARRS GP Support schemes. Early career GPs who are within their first 5 years of practice are also welcome to attend.
This month we’ll be joined by Dr Liz Woodroffe for Safeguarding the Vulnerable – Challenging Cases in Mental Capacity.
This case-based teaching session will start with a brief look at 2 current ‘Hot Topics’ in Adult Safeguarding: Non-fatal strangulation and safeguarding in the context of learning disability and autism. The session will then focus on mental capacity, looking at two contrasting cases and considering challenges such as ‘fluctuating capacity’, decisional vs executive capacity, concerns around power of attorney and the interplay of capacity with coercive control and domestic abuse.
This will be followed by small groups for those enrolled in the GP Fellowship and ARRS GP programmes.
Please do bring any questions and cases to discuss.
Speaker:
Dr Liz Woodroffe is a GP Partner, Trainer and Safeguarding Lead at Lensfield Medical Practice, Cambridge. She also volunteers as Primary Care Representative for the local Child Death Review Panel. She is passionate about helping develop robust safeguarding systems within primary care and practical safeguarding resources to support peer-to-peer learning across the primary care MDT. Liz regularly teaches safeguarding to Cambridge VTS trainees and led 2 ICB Protected Learning events in 2025.
This session will take place via Zoom. You will find the zoom registration link in your booking confirmation email.
If you have not received a booking confirmation email within 24hrs of booking your place, please email deborah.coulter@nhs.net