General National Patient Rights Protection

In 2005 the Danish Parliament adopted the Health Act - Law No. 546 of 24 June 2005 – putting together different acts related to patient rights, especially Law No. 482 of 1 July 1998 on patient rights and a number of other acts which contain patient rights provisions (e.g. the Act on Abortion, the Act on Assisted Reproduction, the Act on Transplantation). The new act on patient rights has come into force on 1 January 2007. Most of the provisions in the new act are similar to the provisions contained in the previous acts including the Patient Rights Act of 1998. “As regard the provisions from the Act on Patient Rights, there are only a few minor changes in the new Health Act. The most important is an amendment to article 24 in the Act on Patient Rights allowing hospitals to inform the patient's general practitioner about the treatment provided by the hospital without the explicit consent of the patient.

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