Your rights
Patient rights
This document is based on various legal grounds in force in Poland, guaranteeing patients protection and numerous privileges.
The patient has the right to:
- 1 Health protection
- 2 Health services consistent with current medical knowledge and based on available methods of disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment
- 3 Comprehensive and understandable information about your health
- 4 A second opinion from another doctor and/or nurse
- 5 Confidentiality of all health-related information by those providing health services
- 6 Consent or refusal of health services
- 7 Reporting adverse drug reactions
- 8 Respect for intimacy and dignity, especially during the provision of health services
- 9 Respect for private and family life
- 10 Access to medical records and copies thereof
- 11 Filing an objection to a doctor's opinion or judgment
- 12 Pastoral care
- 13 Personal, telephone or written contact with other persons
- 14 Safekeeping of valuables in a deposit
- 15 Additional nursing care by a close person or another person designated by the patient
- 16 Dying in peace and dignity
- 17 Expressing objection to post-mortem collection of cells, tissues and organs, and revoking such objection at any time
Legal basis
- Polish Act of 30.08.1991 on healthcare facilities (Journal of Laws 1991, No. 91 item 408)
- Polish Act of 6.11.2008 on Patient Rights and the Patient Ombudsman (Journal of Laws 2012 item 159)
- European Charter of Patients' Rights
- WHO Patient Rights Declaration