Rights of Patients

Council of Allied Health Sciences Pakistan recognizing the following rights
Health care professionals have an obligation to inform patients about their rights.

• The right to reasonable response to requests/need for treatment or service.
• The right to considerate and respectful care.
• The right to make decisions, in collaboration with the physician and other involved health care workers, involving health care.
• The right to information necessary to make treatment decisions that reflect wishes.
• The right to information at admission on grievance procedures and specific patient rights.
• The right to participate in discussion of ethical issues.
• The right to be informed of any human experimentation or research affecting treatment.
• The right to personal privacy with law’s limits and to personal privacy and confidentiality of information.
• The right of the patient’s guardian, next of kin, or authorized person to delineate to patient’s wishes should he or she become incapable.

Definition Of Health and Care Professionals

If you are looking for a career that combines challenge, an excellent employment package and the rewards of doing something really worthwhile, the Allied Health Professions (AHPs) offer a wide range of opportunities. As key members of today’s healthcare team, AHPs provide diagnostic services, treatment, Rehabilitation, and expertise in a verity that helps transform people’s lives.

Entry requirements for the AHPs vary, and acquiring the knowledge and skills to become a professional involves training and study at degree or diploma level, but there is a range of vital support roles that require no set academic qualifications.

AHPs carry their own caseloads and work as autonomous professionals, for example they may work directly with a patient to develop some interactive therapies to aid recovery or Perform Imaging or any other diagnostic or rehab. However, health and social care today is about teamwork so AHPs will also be part of a team and may even lead one. This might mean working with other AHPs or other professionals such as GPs, hospital doctors, teachers, or social workers.

AHPs provide their services to patients and clients in different surroundings. AHPs will be found working in hospitals, clinics, people’s homes, schools and colleges. Not surprisingly, the academic requirements and training demands are high, but then so are the rewards, both in terms of job satisfaction and career prospects.

As a Graduate

You will be working as an independent professional within your professional scope. You will be responsible for the professional services you offer to your own caseload of patients/ clints. Most of the AHPs must complete a higher education training program approved by the Council of Allied Health Sciences Pakistan (CAHSP) through an HEC approved Chartered or affiliated Institution. These programs will be at degree/diploma level or of higher level.

However, if you already have a degree in a relevant discipline, there are also postgraduate training courses at diploma, masters, MS/MPhil or PhD level in some of the allied health professions.

Registration’s Need

To work outside the country specially and within Pakistan Generally, Allied Health Professionals “Must” be registered. They will only be eligible for registration if completed approved training program and been awarded an approved qualification.  Key component for registration is quality Post qualification experiences under the supervision of an approved expert.  This experience has been titled as Clinical Internship or House Job.  It is paid or honorary that is under local preview, however, quality and reliability of such training is concern of CAHSP as to ensure public safety.

Ethics & Standards

It Shall Be the Ideal, the Resolve, and the Duty of the Registered Professionals of this Council:

• TO KEEP the welfare of the patient uppermost at all times;
• TO PROMOTE in every possible way, in collaboration with this Council, better care of the health needs of mankind;
• TO ENHANCE continuously their educational and technical proficiency to the end that their patients shall receive the benefits of all acknowledged improvements in health care;
• TO SEE that no person shall lack for health care, regardless of his financial status;
• TO ADVISE the patient whenever consultation with a colleague or reference for other professional care seems advisable;
• TO HOLD in professional confidence all information concerning a patient and to use such data only for the benefit of the patient;
• TO CONDUCT themselves as exemplary citizens;
• TO MAINTAIN their offices and their practices in keeping with professional standards;
• TO PROMOTE and maintain cordial and unselfish relationships with members of their own profession and of other professions for the exchange of information to the advantage of mankind.