MEDICAL LAWS IN POLAND

Medical law in Poland is a set of legal norms in the form of a dozen of bills concernng civil, administrative and criminal procedures as well as rights and obligations of a patient, a physician, a nurse, and medical institutions (hospitals). Among them:

• Law on medical activity,
• Law on the publicly funded healthcare,
• Law on patient rights,
• Law on health resorts,
• Law on the funding of medicines, foods for special nutritional purposes and medical devices,
• Law on the profession of physicians and dentist,
• Law on the chambers of physicians,
• Law on the profession of nurses and midwifes,
• Pharmaceutical law,
• Law on pharmacy chambers,
• Pharmaceutical Law, the Act on Medical Devices and the Act on the Office for Registration of Medicinal Products, Medical Devices and Biocidal Products,
• Law on the Prevention and Control of Infections and Infectious Diseases,
• Law on the National Sanitary Inspection,
• Mental Health Act,
• Law on the treatment of persons with mental disorders posing a threat to life, health or sexual freedom of other persons,
• Law on Infertility Treatment.