The Patient Rights Card — consent, records, confidentiality, refusal, complaint — each linked to its authority where the corpus holds it, with maternal-mortality and coverage statistics.
England. Health law is devolved: Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland differ in places. Editorial — pending review.
A doctor must take reasonable care to make sure you know of any material risks of a treatment, and of reasonable alternatives — judged by what a reasonable person in your position would want to know.
An adult with capacity may refuse treatment, even if the refusal seems unwise. Capacity is presumed until shown otherwise.
You may ask for a copy of the personal data held about you, including medical records, ordinarily answered within one month and free of charge.
Information you give in confidence is protected, subject to narrow exceptions such as consent, a legal requirement or a serious risk to others.
You may complain to the provider or the commissioner of the service; if unresolved, to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.
What a negligence claim generally has to show. This page never says anyone was negligent — that is for a court.
A gap is reported, not hidden: an empty section here means nothing is loaded, not that nothing exists.
Sources Instruments and decisions in the corpusWHO via World Bank WDI (CC BY 4.0)