Private law aspectes of health care

The problems of providing medical care have been actual, especially regarding the fact, that the contemporary legal regulations lean on a Human care and Health Act (Law on Health Care) from 1966, that has been amended a lot since, as well as on The Convention on Human Rights Biomedicine, that came in force in 2001 in the Czech Republic. The professional public has been waiting for a new law form on providing health care, which is otherwise included in the Bill on Health Care Services, but it has not gone through the legislative process yet. Furthermore the author considers legally and ethically controversial Themes e.g. abortion or following the "Living will" in practice. The next processed topics are the patient's instructions and the acquirement of his informed consent