Conference Overview

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INTRODUCTION

The idea of holding the First Gulf Patient Rights Conference emerged from the tolerant Islamic Sharia calling to give each his due, ensuring therefore that every person obtains their rights, without devaluation of any party.

In fact, the disease represents - regardless of its severity - a scourge for the patients’ parents, friends and visitors and for the medical personnel as well; hence the need for implementing the legal legislations concerning the patient and his family members, taking into account their health, psychological status and social condition.

The Scientific Organizing Committee sought to design a rich scientific conference program, with the aim of shedding light on health care and contributing to raising the level of awareness among the public about the patient’s rights and the health care provided thereto.

CONFERENCE GOAL:

To promote professional as well as public awareness about Patient Rights through.

OBJECTIVES

The conference attracts a number of experts and scientists from several medical sectors

The Scientific Committee has invited a number of experts and scholars in the law and legislation field in the medical sector in order to share their expertise and experiences with regard to the patients’ rights. Moreover, the scientific program has been divided into different scientific sessions for two days according to the below:

Highlighting the current situation of knowledge and practice of patient rights in he althcare facilities.
Improving professional as well as public awareness of patient rights.
Ensuring implementation of “patient first” concept in legislation and practice.
Developing Gulf framework for patient rights through the issuance of "Riyadh Document of Patient Rights“.
Addressing patient needs from psychological, social, and spiritual perspectives.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

The importance of embedding patient rights within the healthcare system and the access to care.
Practical implementation of the patient, family, and visitor rights.
Legislation and laws related to patient rights (confidentiality, privacy, accompanying enlightened ... etc).
Role of patients in health care and
participation in decision taking
Integration between the rights of the patient and healthcare professionals.
Addressing the rights of special group of patients’ - e.g. cancer, disability, psychopaths, and palliative cases.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

Given that the Conference does not aim at making any profit - its main goal being to deliver a message and raise awareness among the public about the patient’s rights - the Organizing Committee decided to open the pre-registration to the Conference, free of any charges. However, only a nominal fee will be imposed on those who wish to register the same day of the conference, on 28-29 February as per the below:

Registration Fees starting Jan. 1^st 2016: