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Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA) service

What is the IMCA Service?

The Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA) service is central to the working of the Mental Capacity Act. Advocates work with someone who lacks capacity to make certain important decisions, and has no one else who can be consulted, to try and establish their wishes

Hampshire’s IMCA service

The IMCA service in Hampshire is coordinated by Hampshire Advocacy Regional Group (HARG).

HARG is a network of advocacy schemes which provide experienced advocates to work with people who have:

as well as older people, children and young people in transition. They also work with people who lack capacity through other causes.

Hampshire Advocacy Regional Group

There is dedicated information on the HARG website about the IMCA service. They have also produced an IMCA leaflet.

Other local IMCA services

Which IMCA service to use

The IMCA Service that a service user is referred to is based on the location of the user at the time they need the service. For example, this would be the location of the hospital where the person is an inpatient, even though this is temporary and could be different from where they live. So e.g. inpatients at St Marys Hospital, Portsmouth will need to be referred to the Portsmouth IMCA service.

 

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