A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MEDICAL CONFIDENTIALITY BETWEEN THE NIGERIA DATA PROTECTION ACT 2023 AND UK GDPR.
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Medical confidentiality remains an integral part of ethical healthcare practice, which is governed by several data protection laws that varies across jurisdictions. The NDPA 2023 is Nigeria’s first comprehensive data protection law which provides for several laws including laws which guides the principle “Medical Confidentiality”. The UK GDPR is derived from EU GDPR, but adapted post Brexit. It also maintains several protections for medical confidentiality including requirements for lawful bases of processing data. This paper provides a full comparative analysis of medical confidentiality under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and the Uk General Data Protection Regulation.
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