Healthcare and decision-making in dementia In this section, the
Regulations of 1998 of the Ministry of Health on Patients’
Rights (1 August 1998, No. 23420) will be referred to as the
Patients’ Rights Act. Consent within the healthcare contract
Consent is covered in two places in the Patients’ Rights Act.
Firstly, in article 5(d) “except in cases of medical necessity
or in cases provided for by law, there shall be no infringement
of the physical integrity of a person or of other rights
inherent in the individual without the consent of the person
concerned.” and secondly, in article 22 which states: “No person
may be subjected to a medical procedure without his/her consent
or in a manner that s not in keeping with the consent that he is
given, subject to exceptions laid down by law.” Consent in case
of emergency This is covered by article 5(d) of the Patients’
Rights Act and also in article 22 which states that a medical
procedure can be carried out at the request of the State
Prosecutor in cases where delay w