Type | Working Paper |
Title | Patients’ Rights as a Policy Issue in SEE-the Transition Context |
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Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2006 |
URL | http://www.policy.hu/milevska/ResearchPaper(nmilevska-kostova).pdf |
Abstract | The common health and social policy in the EU, despite the differences of the national health systems, is placing the same rights of patients, consumers, users, family members, weak populations and ordinary people at risk. As described in the Preamble of the European Charter of Patients’ Rights, “financial constraints, however justified, cannot legitimize denying or compromising patients' rights. The Nice Charter of Fundamental Rights will soon be part of the new European constitution. It is the basis of the declaration of the fourteen concrete patients' rights currently at risk: the right to preventive measures, access, information, consent, free choice, privacy and confidentiality, respect of patients' time, observance of quality standards, safety, innovation, avoidance of unnecessary suffering and pain and personalized treatment, and the right to complain and to receive compensation”. 1 This Charter aimed at fortifying the introduction of patients’ rights policies and reinforcing the level of their implementation in different national contexts, can also be used as a tool for the harmonization of national health systems of both the EU member-states and aspirants for EU accession, as part of the improvement of the freedom of movement within the EU and especially the enlargement process. |
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