ПРАВА ПАЦИЈЕНАТА И ЗАКОНОДАВНЕ ПРОМЕНЕ У СРБИЈИ
PATIENTS’ RIGHTS AND LEGISLATIVE REFORMS IN SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: Healthcare in Serbia has been widely subjected to legislative reforms in recent years, with patients' rights protection as an important part of these reforms. The Law on Patients’ Rights was adopted in May 2013 and introduced some changes. The list of the patients' rights was slightly expanded, patients duties further regulated but a fundamental change was introduced in the approach to the patients' rights protection. Advisors for the patients' rights protection were introduced in the local municipalities, dislocating the mechanism of protection from healthcare institutions (as envisaged by previous legislation). Having in mind the relatively short period of implementation of this Law, it is not possible to fully comprehend all its results, but it is possible to single out several dominant issues and implementation challenges. The authors are pointing to both positive and negative aspects of the Law, from the perspective of legal theory, but also basing their conclusions on the preliminary insights into implementation challenges in the context of economic crisis.

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