Directions of reforming the legislation of Ukraine on ensuring the rights of patients

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issues of normative provision of patients’ rights in Ukraine with the study of the experience of European countries in this field. Based on the analysis of the current domestic legislation in the field of health care, the author substantiates the need to reform the legislation of Ukraine on ensuring the rights of patients. Based on a comparative analysis of the legislation of the EU and Ukraine in the field of patients ‘rights, it was found that a certain number of patients’ rights enshrined in European norms are not guaranteed in our country. It is proposed to adopt the experience of legislative regulation of patients’ rights in European countries with the formulation of specific proposals.