The Patients'
Charter
A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified. It is implicit that the granter retains superiority (or sovereignty), and that the ...
is an official document by the government or an organization that enlists various
Patients' Rights
Patient rights consist of enforceable duties that healthcare professionals and healthcare business persons owe to patients to provide them with certain services or benefits. When such services or benefits become rights instead of simply privileg ...
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
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patients inspiring other nations to publish their patients' charter as well. It was originally introduced in 1991, under the then
Conservative government Conservative or Tory government may refer to:
Canada
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* 1st Canadian Min ...
, and was revised in 1995 and 1997.
The charter set out rights in service areas including
general practice
General practice is personal, family, and community-orientated comprehensive primary care that includes diagnosis, continues over time and is anticipatory as well as responsive.
Definitions
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, hospital treatment, community treatment, ambulance, dental, optical,
pharmaceutical
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and
maternity care.
Various stakeholders have criticised the charter for reasons widely ranging from not offering sufficient support to
transgender
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The opposite of ''transgender'' is ''cisgender'', which describes perso ...
patients
[ to increasing attacks on hospital staff. The Patient's Charter was supplemented by the NHS Plan 2000 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 Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) is an Government of India, Indian government Ministry (government department), ministry charged with health policy in India. It is also responsible for all government programs relating to family ...
(MOHFW), India's National Human Rights Commission drafted a Charter of Patients' Rights
Patient rights consist of enforceable duties that healthcare professionals and healthcare business persons owe to patients to provide them with certain services or benefits. When such services or benefits become rights instead of simply privileg ...
in 2018 which can be found at NABH websit
here
References
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Government of the United Kingdom
Programmes of the Government of the United Kingdom