Patient rights
4Patient rights: further provision
(1)
In construing the right of a patient under section 3(1), the matters set out in subsection (2) below must be taken into account.
(2)
The matters are—
(a)
the rights of other patients under section 3(1),
(b)
the desirability of action delivering health care being proportionate, and otherwise appropriate, to the circumstances of each case,
(c)
those specified in section 20(1)(a) and (b).