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• Authors: Michał Białkowski

Title variants

EN

Amendments to the Patients’ Rights and Patients’ Spokesman Rights Act. A few remarks on the mechanisms of awarding compensation for damage or injury caused by medical occurrences

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The paper deals with the provision of Article 256 of the Polish Penal Code. The author discusses the offences of public propagation of tota The objective of this paper is to present the amendments to the Patients’ rights and Patients’ Rights Spokesman Act of 28 April 2011. The paper focuses on the drawbacks of the provisions of the Act concerning claims for compensation for damage or injury caused by medical occurrences that are put before regional medical occurrences committees. Despite the undoubtedly right direction of the amended legislation, the purpose of the amendments has not been achieved. The renouncement by applicants of all the claims when accepting the insurers offer concerning the amount of compensation, low sums of the compensation which the patient or his heir may be awarded as well as restricting the places where medical occurrences may happen only to hospitals, narrow the applicability of the amendments and warrants further work on the existing solution.

EN

The objective of this paper is to present the amendments to the Patients’ rights and Patients’ Rights Spokesman Act of 28 April 2011. The paper focuses on the drawbacks of the provisions of the Act concerning claims for compensation for damage or injury caused by medical occurrences that are put before regional medical occurrences committees. Despite the undoubtedly right direction of the amended legislation, the purpose of the amendments has not been achieved. The renouncement by applicants of all the claims when accepting the insurers offer concerning the amount of compensation, low sums of the compensation which the patient or his heir may be awarded as well as restricting the places where medical occurrences may happen only to hospitals, narrow the applicability of the amendments and warrants further work on the existing solution.

Keywords

PL

patients’ rights and Patients’ Rights Spokesman Act; medical occurrences; claim for compensation; medical malpractice; No Fault Patient Insurance

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Adam Mickiewicz University Law Review
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 137-145

Dates

published

2018-09-04

Contributors

author

Michał Białkowski

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/ppuam.2012.1.10