18. 05. 2026
- Right to prevention
Each individual has the right to provide adequate disease prevention services.
- Right of access to health services
Every individual has the right to access medical services as required by his or her health. Health services must guarantee equal access for everyone, without discrimination on the basis of financial means, place of residence, type of illness or period of access to health care.
- Right to information
Each individual has a right of access to all types of information relating to his or her health status, health services and their use, and everything available on the basis of scientific research and technological innovation.
- Right to consent
Each individual has the right to access all information that would enable him to participate actively in his/her health decision making; this information is a basic condition before any procedure and treatment, including participation in scientific research.
- Freedom of choice
Each individual has the right to choose freely on the basis of sufficient information among the different treatment methods and providers.
- Right to privacy and confidentiality
Each individual has the right to keep confidential his or her personal information, including information relating to his or her state of health and possible diagnostic or therapeutic methods, as well as to protect his or her privacy in the conduct of diagnostic examinations, medical examination and medical treatment or surgery in general.
- Right to respect for patient time
Each individual has the right to be treated in a short and predetermined time. This right applies to all stages of treatment.
- Right to comply with quality levels
Each individual has the right to access high quality health services on the basis of specification and compliance with specified standards.
- Patient's right to safety
Every individual has the right not to suffer damage caused by the lack of functioning of health services, neglect of medical care and errors, and the right to access medical services, treatment and treatment that meet high safety standards.
- Right to innovation
Each individual has the right to access innovative methods, including diagnostic methods, within the meaning of international standards, and independently of economic or financial circumstances.
- Right to prevent unnecessary suffering and pain
Each individual has the right, as far as possible, to prevent suffering and pain at all stages of his or her illness.
- Right to personal treatment
Each individual has the right to diagnostic and treatment programmes as much as possible adapted to his or her personal needs.
- Right to lodge complaints
Each individual has the right to lodge a complaint whenever he suffers damage and the right to receive a reply or other form of feedback.
- Right to compensation
Each individual has the right to adequate compensation in a reasonably short period of time, whenever he suffers physical or moral and psychological harm caused by treatment or treatment in the provision of medical services.
