Fluctuating capacity: the concept of micro- and macro-decisions

This article by Martin Curtice, MB ChB, LLM, FRCPsych, consultant in old age psychiatry with Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust describes how the Court of Protection in Royal Borough of Greenwich v CDM [2019] legally approached an issue of fluctuating capacity in a 64-year-old woman with a personality disorder and chronic diabetes.