1. The Health Care Act provides for a right to privacy as a patient right. A patient has the right to have his examination and treatment taken place under circumstances whereby he cannot be seen or heard by others without his consent, unless this is unavoidable due to an emergency or a critical situation. During the course of his examination and medical treatment, the patient has the right to have only those persons present whose involvement is necessary in delivering such care, furthermore those persons to whose presence he has consented, unless provided otherwise by law. 
2. The Data Protection Act 1992 is applicable to any instance of data handling unless the handling of specific data is covered by the Health Data Protection Act of 1997.
3. The obligation to respect medical secrecy is laid down in section 177 of the Hungarian Criminal Code. This provision states that the person, who reveals a private secret learned by him as a result of his occupation or public mandate without good reason, commits a misdemeanor and shall be punishable with a fine.  If the crime causes considerable injury of interest, the punishment shall be imprisonment of up to one year, labor in the public interest or fine. The Health Care Act also assures the right to professional secrecy.

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