# OnCo record uk-data-protection-act (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
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<https://onco.cc/terms/uk-data-protection-act/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "uk-data-protection-act" ;
  schema:name "UK Data Protection Act 2018 and health data law"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Data Protection Act 2018"@en, "UK GDPR"@en, "Data (Use and Access) Act 2025"@en, "national data opt-out"@en, "section 251"@en, "Confidentiality Advisory Group"@en, "common law duty of confidentiality"@en, "Caldicott principles"@en ;
  schema:description "The UK's data law, which keeps the EU's GDPR in domestic form and adds NHS-specific rules, so that cancer registries and research can use patient records under a public-interest basis, patients can opt out of secondary uses, and a 2025 Act loosened the consent rules for scientific research."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/uk-data-protection-act/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-17"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_2018> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_2018>, <https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12>, <https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/18> ;
  onco:tag "law", "uk" ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/gdpr/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/hipaa/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/european-health-data-space/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/gina/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/medicines-medical-devices-act-2021/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/oncology-real-world-data/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/germline-testing/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/pipl/> ;
  onco:institutions <https://onco.cc/institutions/mhra/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-data-silos/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-real-world-evidence/> .