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The service requires Specific maternal and newborn interventions such as Safe Motherhood, Mother and Baby-friendly Health Initiative (MBFHI) and Making Every Baby Count Initiative (MEBCI) have The Ghanaian Patient’s Charter: Patient Awareness, and Implementationin Selected Public Ophthalmic Health Institutions in Ghana. It discusses patients' rights to quality healthcare, informed consent, privacy, and Purpose – This paper seeks to assess the implementation of Ghana’s Patients’ Charter by investigating the level of awareness and knowledge of the Charter’s content, some The Directorate General of Health Services () is a repository of technical knowledge concerning Public Health, Medical Education and Health Care. The Patient Charter addresses: The Right of the individual to an easily accessible, equitable and comprehensive health care of the highest quality within the resources of the country *Ghana’s Patient Charter is Section (Sixth Schedule) of the Public Health Act, (Act) The patient is entitled to personal safety and reasonable security of property within the confines of the institutionThe patient has the right to a second medical opinion if the patient so desires. The purpose of the Division is to assist GHS management and the The Ghana Health Service expects health care institutions to adopt the patient's charter to ensure that service personnel as well as patients/clients and their families understand their rights and responsibilities. (), “Ghana Medical Association hails Charter on Patients Rights”, A unit increase in the level of implementation of patient charter was associated with an increase of standardized units in level of satisfaction (beta =, p Patients with at least senior secondary education were more satisfied with the health services, compared with patients with no formal education It is an T he Internal Audit Division (IAD) derives its core mandate from the Public Financial Management Act, (ACT,) and other financial laws of Ghana. It addresses The patient’s charter ensures that service personnel, as well as patients/clients and their families, understand their rights and responsibilities. This Charter is made to protect the Rights of the patient in the Ghana Health Service. This study assessed the level of implementation and The document outlines the Patient's Charter established by the Ghana Health Service. The Ghana Health Service is for all people in Ghana irrespective of age, sex, ethnic background and religion. THE PATIENT’S RESPONSIBILITIES 1 @inproceedings{TchiakpeTheGP, title={The Ghanaian Patient’s Charter: Patient Awareness, and Implementationin Selected Public Ophthalmic Health Institutions in Ghana}, author={Michel Pascal Tchiakpe and Stephen Ankamah-Lomotey and Emmanuel Kobia-Acquah and Francis Slocombe and Ernest Kyei Nkansah and Philip Tetteh Djeagbo and Irene Nkansa The Ghanaian Patient’s Charter: Patient Awareness, and Implementation in Selected Public Ophthalmic Health Institutions in Ghana Description Number of Participants Percentage (%) Free to ChooseNot Free to ChooseInvolvedNot InvolvedInformed% Not informed% InvolvedNot Involved 8 Ten years after the Ghana Health Service (GHS) established the patients’ Charter as a tool to ensure that patients’ rights and dignity are protected and upheld, the GHS in its report on clinical care quality assurance conference in highlighted some key challenges confronting the service in the implementation of the tenets of the Charter Ghana Health Service (), The Patient’s Charter, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana. Informed Consent under the Ghana Health Service The Ghana Health Service introduced the Patients' Charter in to ensure quality of health care for patients. Irene Nkansa-KyerematengSee Download Free PDF. Informed Consent under the Ghana Health Service Patients Charter: Practice and Awareness. THE NEW CHARTER GHANA HEALTH SERVICE INTRODUCTION We are the Ghana Health Service, the service delivery agency under the Ministry of Health, established in Health Service Patient Charter. the Internal Audit Agency Act, (ACT) and the Ghana Health Service and Teaching Hospitals Act (Act).