The Patients' Charter is an official document by the government or an organization that enlists various

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and Responsibility along with the Code of Practice, followed by a medical personnel. The Patient's Charter was first started out as a United Kingdom government official document, which sets out a number of Patient's rights for

National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the " ...

patients inspiring other nations to publish their patients' charter as well. It was originally introduced in 1991, under the then

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, and was revised in 1995 and 1997. The charter set out rights in service areas including

general practice General practice is the name given in various nations, such as the United Kingdom, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to the services provided by general practitioners. In some nations, such as the US, similar services may be describe ...

, hospital treatment, community treatment, ambulance, dental, optical,

pharmaceutical A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease. Drug therapy (pharmacotherapy) is an important part of the medical field an ...

and

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. Various stakeholders have criticised the charter for reasons widely ranging from not offering sufficient support to

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patients to increasing attacks on hospital staff. The Patient's Charter was supplemented by the

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and subsequently replaced by the NHS Constitution for England in 2013.

United Kingdom

Scotland

The Patient Rights (Scotland) Act 2011 was passed by the Scottish Parliament on 24 February 2011, and received Royal Assent on 31 March 2011. The charter was first published in October 2012.

India

Under the direction of the

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(MOHFW), India's National Human Rights Commission drafted a Charter of

in 2018 which can be found at

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References

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