Patients' Rights Charter
Your right to dignity:
- Every patient has a right to:
- Healthy and safe environment
- Participation in decision-making
- Access to health care
- Knowledge of one’s health
- Insurance/medical aid scheme
- Choice of health services
- Treated by a named health care provider
- Confidentiality and privacy
- Informed consent
- Refusal of treatment
- A second opinion
- Continuity of care
- Complaints about health services
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