Tell hospital staff if you are uncomfortable with any part of your treatment or are unsure of anything.

While in hospital, you have the right to:

• Privacy

• Safety

• Respect for your cultural identity

• Ask questions about your treatments and medications and their side effects

• Know your diagnosis, and disagree with it

• Get a second opinion (this could be at your own cost)

• Refuse treatment (though if you are under an involuntary order your doctors may end up insisting on some medications)

• Make a complaint

• Have a family member, friend, family consultant or anyone you choose to help you ask questions.