Protecting your human rights when using health and care services

It may be illegal if you are treated in an unfair way. In case of illegal discrimination, you can act according to 2010 Equal Law.

If it is treated unfairly by a public agency, you can also take action based on the Human Rights Act 1998.

Read this page to learn more about using human rights law when receiving health care services.

Human rights is the basic right and freedom of all people all over the world. In the UK, these rights are included in the 1998 Human Rights Act. If public agencies infringe or neglect your human rights, you can take action based on this law.

Public organizations must ensure that they respect and protect your human rights in providing health care services. This may involve taking aggressive steps to ensure that your human rights are not being infringed. If public institutions deal seriously with you, you can file a complaint with a human rights law or make a lawsuit at a trial.

Other NHS agencies such as the NHS Trust in the UK, the Local Health Boards in Wales, or the NHS Health Board in Scotland

British care quality council, Wales nursing social welfare department, Scottish nursing department

Your right to personal and family life means that you should be able to enjoy your family relationship. It also means that people should respect your choice of privacy and your life, as long as they do not interfere with the rights of others.

Article 3 protects you from handling that harms serious harm and grade. You can use it - for example:

The right for you to liberture means that you must not be bound or trapped within the will unless you are permitted by law.

You are informally detained in the hospital because you do not have the ability to decide whether you would like to be hospitalized.

Your detention is not properly reviewed under the Mental Health Act, or you are late to release you from detention

The right of life means that no one can try to end your life. It also means that if your life is in danger, you are entitled to protection. When making decisions that may affect your life expectancy, NHS or caregivers should consider the rights to your life

Human rights law protects you from discrimination related to human rights stipulated by the law. In other words, your human rights should not be infringed or protected by specific matters such as gender, disability, race. This protection is broader than the protection of the 2010 Equal Law.

Public institutions must respect your human rights when providing health and long-term care services to you - for example when you evaluate your care needs with a hospital or social welfare service

They should also respect your human rights when commissioning and planning services - for example when local governments sign contracts with private organizations to provide nursing care services

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