1. Hungarian law provides the right to information about his health as a right independent of the right to informed consent. The patient has the right to receive comprehensive and individualized information. This general formulation by stating amongst others that the patient shall have a right to receive detailed information on his state of health, including its medical evaluation. 
2. The legally incapable patient or a patient with reduced disposing capacity shall also have a right to information corresponding to his age and mental state.  If the patient’s disposing capacity is severely impaired or limited, the attending physician also has to inform the person who is designated to be informed in his stead or the person who is entitled to exercise the right to consent and refuse in his stead.
3. A competent patient may waive the right of being informed unless his doctor decides that the patient has to be aware of the nature of his illness in order not to endanger the health of others.
4. In Hungarian law, legal regulation of the therapeutic exception is not provided as such.  However, the attending physician shall be circumspect in informing the patient and shall do so gradually when necessary, considering the patient’s condition and circumstances.

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