[center]Mental Health - Glossary of Acronyms[/center]

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A&E Accident and Emergency Department. Casualty - as seen on TV, but usually less exciting.

A/O Alert and Oriented

A4A Awards for All

AA Attendance Allowance. Benefit for people over 65 who need personal care

or Accountancy Age

or Alcoholics Anonymous

or Advanced Access

AAA Annual Accountability Agreement

or Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

AAC Advisory Appointments Committee

AAGBI Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland

AAMS Association of Air Medical Services (US)

AAO American Academy of Opthalmology

AAOS American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons

AAOx3 Awake, Alert, Oriented x 3 [person/place/time]

AAT Association of Accounting Technicians

AB Antibiotic

ABC Activity-Based Costing

ABG Arterial Blood Gases

ABHI Association of British Healthcare Industries

ABI Area-Based Initiative

ABM Activity-Based Management
ABN Association of British Neurologists

ABPI Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

ABS Adult Basic Skills

a c ante cibos - before food

AC AnteCubital vein or fossa (IV)

or Anterior Cephalic vein

or Audit Commission

ACA Area Cost Adjustment (part of the SSA)

ACAC Area Clinical Audit Committee

ACAD Ambulatory Care and Diagnostic Centre

ACAS Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service

ACBS Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances

ACC Adjusted Credit Ceiling (part of capital control framework)

ACCA Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

ACCE Association of County Chief Executives

ACCEA Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards

ACD Active Compression-Decompression (CPR)

ACDA Advisory Committee on Distinction Awards (obs)

ACDF Active Communities Development Fund

ACDC Ambulatory Care and Diagnostic Centre

ACDM - Association of Clinical Data Managers

ACDP Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens

ACE Angiotensin Converting Enzyme is a sort of hormone in the kidney which controls the body's fluid/salt balance and has a major role in maintaining blood pressure.

or Arts Council of England

ACEO Association of Chief Education Officers

ACEVO Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations

ACF Association of Charitable Foundations

ACG Annual Capital Guideline (part of Local Government capital control framework)

ACHCEW Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales (obsolete)

ACHMS Asian Community Mental Health Services

ACIE Association of Charity Independent Examiners

ACIG Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Information Group

ACL Aggregate Credit Limit (part of capital control framework)

ACLS Advanced Coronary Life Support

ACM Assessment and Care Management - Social Services community care purchaser division.

ACME Advisory Committee on Medical Establishment (Scotland)

or Alliance for Continuing Medical Education

ACMHS Asian Community Mental Health Services

ACMT Advisory Committee on Medical Training

AcoP Accounting Code of Practice

ACORN A Classification Of Residential Neighbourhoods (used in SSA)


ACP American College of Physicians

ACRA Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation (obs)

ACRE Action with Communities in Rural England

ACRPI Association of Clinical Research for the Pharmaceutical Industry

ACS Association of Charity Shops

ACSES Association of Council Secretaries & Solicitors

ACT Assertive Community Treatment

ACTAF Association of Community Trusts and Foundations Now Community Foundation Network

ACTH Adenocorticotrophic hormone

ACTS Agency for Community Team Support

ACTR Additional Cost of Teaching and Research (in Scotland)

ACU Active Community Unit (part of the Home Office)

ADA Americans with Disabilities Act

ADC Automatic Data Capture

ADCU Anti-Drugs Co-ordination Unit

ADD Attention Deficit Disorder

ADH Additional Duty Hours

or antidiurectic hormone

ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

ADI Acceptable Daily Intake

ADL Activities of daily living - measures of independence in being able to perform personal care and other basic daily tasks; for example eating, washing, dressing, getting in and out of bed, climbing stairs etc.


ADMS Assistant Director of Medical Services

ADNS Assistant Director of Nursing Services

ADP Automatic Data Processing

or adenosine 5' pyrophosphate

ADQ Average Daily Quantity. Average amount of a medication prescribed for an adult in England.

ADR adverse drug reaction

ADS Attribution Data Set - A list of patients on GP lists in March 1998 which matches patients by age and sex to practices and to census enumeration districts (ED)

ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

ADSS Association of Directors of Social Services - Social Services’ Directors Trades Union.

ADSU Automatic Distress Signal Unit

AE air entry - part of the examination of the chest

AED Automatic External Defibrillator

AEF Aggregate External Finance

AELS Advanced Endocrinological Life Support

AEN Additional Educational Needs (part of SSA)

AFAIAA As Far As I Am Aware

AFB acid-fast bacillus

AFC Agenda for Change

AFOM Associate of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine

AFPP Association for Perioperative Practice

AFR Annual Financial Return

AfS Action for Sustainability

AFWG Allocation Formula Working Group (part of Home Office)

AGM Annual General Meeting

AGMA Association of Greater Manchester Authorities

AGMETS Advisory Group on Medical and Dental Education, Training and Staffing

AGREE Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation in Europe

AGUM Association for Genitourinary Medicine

AHA Associate of the Institute of Hospital Administrators

or Area Health Authority (defunct)

AHCPA Association of Health Centre and Practice Administrators

AHHRM Association of Healthcare Human Resource Management Personnel Directors Union

AHP Allied health professional

AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

AICD Automatic Internal Cardiac Defibrillator

AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

AIF Area investment frameworks

AIM Advanced Informatics in Medicine

or Association of Independent Multifunds (obsolete)

AIMS Association for Improvements in Maternity Services

AIOPI - Association of Information Officers in the Pharmaceutical Industry

AIQ Available In Quarters

aka Also Known As

ALA Association of Local Authorities. Now part of the LGA

ALAC Artificial Limb and Appliance Centre. Now known as the DSC

ALARM Association of Local Authority Risk Managers

ALATS Association of Local Authority Treasurer's Societies

ALD Adult with Learning Difficulties

ALF Activity-Led Funding

ALG Association of London Government

ALI Adult Learning Inspectorate (abolished April 2007)

ALM Action Learning for Managers

ALMO Arms Length Management Organisation

ALPHA Access to Learning for the Public Health Agenda

alos Average Length of Stay

ALPHA Access to Learning for the Public Health

ALS Advanced Life Support

ALSOB Alcohol Like Substance On Breath

ALT /SGPT liver function tests

ALW Adult Learners' Week

AMA American Medical Association

or Against Medical Advice

AMBEX Ambulance Exhibition

AME Annual Managed Expenditure

AMEE Association for Medical Education in Europe

AMIA American Medical Informatics Association

AMP adenosine 5' phosphate

or Asset Management Plan

AMPS Assessment of Motor Skills

AMQ Average Monthly Quantities. The assumed maintenance dose per month for an adult of a drug.

AMRA Asset Management Revenue Account

AMRC Association of Medical Research Charities

or Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

AMS Army Medical Services

AMSPAR Association of Medical Secretaries, Practice Administrators and Receptionists

ANC Ante Natal Clinic

ANH Artificial Nutrition and Hydration

ANI Automatic Number Identification (telephony)

ANSI American National Standards Institute

AOB Alcohol On Breath

AOC Adult Opportunity Centre

AODP Association of Operating Department Practitioners formerly BAODA British Association of Operating Department Assistants

AOMRC Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

AONB Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

AOP Association of Optometrists

AOT Assertive Outreach Team

APA Association of Police Authorities

APC Area Prescribing Committee

or Antigen-presenting Cell

APD Advanced Professional Development

APH Aged Persons Home. aka EPH

or Association of Public Health - now turned into UKPHA

APHA American Public Health Association

APLS Advanced Paediatric Life Support

APM Arbitrage Pricing Model

APMS Alternative Primary Medical Services

APPG All Party Parliamentary Group

APROP Action for the Proper Regulation of Private Hospitals

APSE Association for Public Service Excellence

APT&C Administrative, Professional, Technical & Clerical - former grading of local government staff

AQH Association for Quality in Healthcare

AQS Air Quality Strategy

AR analytical standard of reagent purity

ARIF Aggressive Research Intelligence Facility

ARM Association of Radical Midwives

or artificial rupture of the membranes

ARSH Association of Royal Society of Health

ARVAC Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community Sector

as Auricle Sinistrus (Left Ear)

ASA Advertising Standards Authority

ASAP As Soon As Possible

ASB Anti-Social Behaviour

ASBAH Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus

ASBO Anti-Social Behaviour Order

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange - Plain text

ASD Autistic Spectrum Disorder

ASEC Associate Specialist Education Committee

ASH Action on Smoking and Health

ASIM American Society of Internal Medicine

ASIT Association of Surgeons in Training

ASME Association for the Study of Medical Education

ASP Active Server Protocol

ASPFA Asylum Seekers and People From Abroad - a Social Services team who pay out cash to people who cannot get Social Security Benefits

ASSIST Association for Information Management and Technology Staff in the NHS

ASTRO-PU Age Sex Temporary Resident Originated Prescribing Unit.

ASW Approved Social Worker - A social worker approved to carry out Sections under the Mental Health Act.

ASWCS Avon Somerset and Wiltshire Cancer Services

ATC Adult Training Centre (obs)

ATfJ Action Teams for Jobs

ATLS Advanced Trauma Life Support

ATMD Association of Trust Medical Directors

ATP adenosine 5' triphosphate

ATTRACT - Ask TRiP to Rapidly Alleviate Confused Thoughts

Atts Attendances

ATU Alcohol Treatment Unit

au Right Ear

AUDGP Association of University Departments of General Practice (obs)

AVG Ambulatory Visit Group

AVMA Action for the Victims of Medical Accidents

AZT Azidothymidine (or zidovudine)

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B2B Business to Business

BA Benefits Agency (obs)

or Bachelor of Arts

BAAF British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering

BACS British Association for Chemical Specialities

or Blood Alcohol Content

BACCH British Association for Community Child Health

BACTS British Association of Clinical Terminology

BACUP British Association of Cancer United Patients

BAEM British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine

BAMM British Association of Medical Managers

BAMS Benefit Agency Medical Service (obs)

BAN British Approved Name

BAO British Association of Otolaryngologists

BAOT British Association of Occupational Therapists

BAP British Association for Psychopharmacology

BAPRAS British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons

BAPS British Association of Paediatric Surgeons

or British Association of Plastic Surgeons (now BAPRAS)

BAPT British Association of Physical Training

BARQA British Association of Research Quality

BASH British Association for the Study of Headache

BASICS British Association of Immediate Care

BASRaT British Association of Sports Rehabilitators and Trainers

BASSAC British Association of Settlements and Social Action Centres

BASW British Association of Social Workers

BAUS British Association of Urological Surgeons

BBP Blood-Borne Pathogen

BBS Bulletin Board System

BBV Blood borne virus

BC Block Contracting

or Borough Council

BCA Basic Credit Approval (part of capital control framework)

BCCCF Black Community Care Consultative Forum

BCD Black and Culturally Diverse

BCF Boundary Change Factor (part of SSA)

BCG Bacille Calmette-Guerin Vaccination for TB. Named after the scientists who developed the weakened strain of TB

or ballistocardiogram

BCHS Better Care Higher Standards

BCODP British Council of Disabled People

BCS British Computer Society

BCU Basic Command Unit (police)

BD Twice Daily - of medication

or BenzoDiazepine

BDA British Dental Association

or British Diabetic Association now called Diabetes UK

or British Dietetic Association

or British Dyslexia Association

BDD body dysmorphic disorder

BDH British Drug Houses (no longer trading)

BDS Bachelor of Dental Surgery

BEAM Biomedical Equipment Assessment and Management

BEHAF British Ethnic Health Awareness Foundation

BESS Benchill Ecumenical Service Scheme - three local churches which work together

BF Bio Feedback

BGOP Better Government for Older People (Cabinet Office/ LGA Initiative to give more people a say and encourage them to make a greater contribution to their communities (allegedly)

BGS British Geriatrics Society for Health in Old Age

BHAF Black HIV and AIDS Forum

BHAPS Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Ambulance and Paramedic Service

BHF British Heart Foundation

BHPS British Household Panel Survey

BIBRA British Industrial Biological Association

bid bis in die - twice daily

BIDS Bath Information and Data Services

BIIG Business Information In Government

BILD British Institute of Learning Disabilities

BIQ Back in Quarters

BIR British Institute of Radiology

BIRA British Institute of Regulatory Affairs

BiTC Business in the Community

BIVDA British in Vitro Diagnostics Association

BLEVE Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion

BLP Branch Labour Party - normally covering one ward

BLROA British Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Association

BLS Basic Life Support

BMA British Medical Association - the main doctors' Trade Union

BMAG Burnage Multi-Agency Group

BMCA Barlow Moor Community Association

BME Black and Minority Ethnic

BMI Body Mass Index (kg/m2)

BMIS British Medical Informatics Society

BMJ British Medical Journal - published by the BMA weekly

BMR Basal metabolic rate

BNF British National Formulary. Quarterly publication containing details of prescribed drugs

BNI British Nursing Index

BOA British Orthopaedic Association

BOGOF Buy One Get One Free

BOPCAS British Official Publications Current Awareness Service

BOS British Orthodontic Society

BP Blood pressure

or British Pharmacopoeia

or Boiling point

BPA British Paediatric Association

BPAS British Pregnancy Advisory Service

BPC British Pharmaceutical Codex

BPD Borderline Personality Disorder

BPH Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Enlargement of the prostate gland

BPMF British Postgraduate Medical Federation

BPPV benign paroxysmal positional vertigo

BPR Business Process Re-engineering

BPS British Pharmacological Society

BPSU British Paediatric Surveillance Unit

BQS Better Quality Services

BR Budget Requirement

BrAPP British Association of Pharmaceutical Physicians

BRI Bristol Royal Infirmary

BRT Big Red Trucks

BSA Basic Skills Agency

BSAD British Sports Association for the Disabled

BSc Bachelor of Science

BSCC British Society for Clinical Cytology

BSE Bovine Spongiform Encephalopthy. Mad Cow Disease. Causes a new form of CJD which has killed 156 people and caused HMG to spend many millions of pounds.

or Breast Self Examination

BSEC Basic Surgical Education Committee

BSH British Society for Haematology

BSI British Standards Institution

or British Society for Immunology

BSL British Sign Language

BSPED British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes

BSR British Society of Rheumatology

BST Basic Surgical Training

or Basic Specialist Training

BSVP Better Services for Vulnerable People; NHS and SSDs enjoined to be joined up in respect of 'priority' groups who are supposed to be benefiting from Community Care

BTCV British Trust for Conservation Volunteers

BTEG Black Training and Enterprise Group

BTS Blood Transfusion Service

or British Thoracic Society

BTW By The Way

BUGAUP Billboard Utilising Graffitists Against Unhealthy Promotions

BUNDY But Unfortunately Not Dead Yet

BUPA British United Provident Association

BURA British Urban Regeneration Association

BV Best Value (sometimes used for Best Value Indicator)

BVACoP Best Value Accounting Code of Practice

BVPI Best Value Performance Indicator

BVPP Best Value Performance Plan


BWS Beached Whale Syndrome

BZD BenZoDiazepine

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C/P Chest Pain

C&B Choose and Book

C1-7 Cervical spine bones (in the neck)

C2H5OH +++ Drunk

CA Cancer

or Countryside Agency

or Conjoint Analysis

or California
or Canada

CAB Citizens Advice Bureau

CABA Compressed Air Breathing Apparatus

CABG Coronary Artery Bypass Graft

CABE Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment

CADO Chief Administrative Dental Officer

CAEF Clinical Audit and Effectiveness Forum

CAF Charities Aid Foundation

CAFCASS Children And Family Court Advisory Support Service

CAIT Citizens Advocacy Information and Training

CALL Cancer Aid Listening Line

CAM Complementary and Alternative Medicine

CAMHS Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services - Joint Local and Health Authority services to young people with mental health problems.

CAMO Chief Administrative Medical Officer

CAMS Computer Aided Medical Systems

CAN Community Action Network

CANO Chief Area Nursing Officer

CAOx4 Conscious, Alert, and Oriented x4

CAP Common Agricultural Policy

or Communities Against Poverty

CAPD Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis for people with kidney failure

CAPM Capital Asset Pricing Model

CAPO Chief Administrative Pharmaceutical Officer

CAPS Crown Agents Purchasing Services Ltd

CARE Clinical Audit and Research Evidence

or Craniofacial Anomalies Register

CAS Care Assessment Schedule

or Chemical Abstracts

or Community Accountancy Service

or Controls Assurance Statement

CASE Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion

CASH Consensus Action on Salt and Health

CASP Critical Appraisal Skills Programme

CASPE Clinical Accountability Service Planning and Evaluation

CAT Computerised Axial Tomography - a scanning technology

or Critically Appraised Topic.

or Community Alcohol Team

CATS Credit Accumulated Transfer Scheme

CAWG Controls Assurance Working Group

CB Citizen's Band radio

CBA Cost Benefit Analysis

CBI Confederation of British Industry

CBIS Capacity Building Infrastructure Strategy

CBIT Capacity Building Implementation Team

CBRN Chemical, Biological, Radioacative and Nuclear

CBS Commissioning Business Service

CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

or Computer Based Training

CC County Council

or cum cibis - with food

or Chief Complaint

or City Council

or Charity Commission

CCA Cost-Consequence Analysis

or Current Cost Accounting

CCAB Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies

CCBR Community Capacity Building Review

CCBT Computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

CCC NHS Centre for Coding and Classification.

CCCG Cochrane Colorectal Cancer Group

CCDC Consultant in Communicable Disease Control

CCE Completed Consultant Episode - the same as an FCE

CCEPP Cochrane Collaboration on Effective Professional Practice - now called EPOC

CCETSW Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work (abolished October 2001)

CCG Community Care Grant

CCHR Citizens Commission on Human Rights

CCN County Councils' Network

or Change Control Notice

CCP Community Care Plan

or Change Control Procedure

CCR Cross Cutting Review

CcRISP Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient

CCSC Central Consultants and Specialists Committee

CCSI Critical Care Skills Institute

CCSR Cross Cutting Spending Review

CCST Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training for junior doctors

CCT Compulsory Competitive Tendering. A sort of Dutch Auction of public services, now partly replaced by the Best Value process

CCTR Cochrane Controlled Trials Register

CCTV Closed Circuit TeleVision

CCU Coronary care unit

CD Clinical Director

or Clinical Directorate

or Civil Defence

or Cluster of Differentiation

CD-ROM Compact Disc Read Only Memory

CDC Corporate & Democratic Core

or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDDS Council of Deans of Dental Schools

CDER Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

CDHN Community Development and Health Network

CDM Chronic Disease Management

or Construction, Design and Management

CDNA Community and District Nursing Association

CDO Chief Dental Officer

CDRP Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership

CDS Contract Data Set - A collection of information recorded by the NHS Trust that identifies a patient and their treatment which is sent to the Health Authority

or Community Dental Service

CDSC Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre now the HPA Centre for Infections

CDSM Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials (abolished 1994)

CDSR Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

CDU Child Development Unit

or Central Delivery Unit

or Colourflow Duplex Ultrasound

CDX Community Development Exchange

CE Chief Executive

CEA Cost Effectiveness Analysis

CED Community Economic Development

CEDC Community Education Development Centre

CEEU Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit of the RCP

CEF Community Empowerment Fund

CEFET Central England Forum for European Training

CEMACH Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health

CEMD Confidential Enquiry Into Maternal Deaths (obs)

CEMVO Council of Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector Organisations

CEN Community Empowerment Network

CEO Chief Executive Officer

CEPOD Confidential Enquiry into Peri-Operative Deaths

CERA Capital Expenditure, Revenue Account

CERES Consumers for Ethics in Research

Cert HSM Certificate in Health Services Management

CES Charities Evaluation Services

CESDI Confidential Enquiry into Sudden Deaths of Infants

CESH National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide By People With Mental Illness

CESG Communications Electronics Security Group

CF Cystic Fibrosis

CFA Combined Fire Authority

CFC Chlorofluorocarbon

CFF Crime Fighting Fund

CfH Connecting For Health

CFI Community Finance Initiative

CFISSA Centrally Funded Initiatives and Services and Special Allocations

CFN Community Foundation Network

CFO Chief Finance Officer or

Conventionally Financed Option or

Co-Financing Public Sector Intermediary Organisation

CfPS Centre for Public Scrutiny

CFR Capital Financing Reserve

CFRC Children and Family Resource Centre

CFS Chronic Fatigue Syndrome closely associated with ME

CFSMS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service

CG Clinical Governance

CGD Chronic Granulomatous Disease

CGF Child Growth Foundation

CGI Common Gateway Interface

CGST Clinical Governance Support Team

CHAI Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection

CHAIN Contact Help Advice and Information Network

CHAOS Chief Has Arrived on the Scene

CHART Community Health Action Resource Team

CHB Chirurgiae Baccalaureus Basic surgical degree not usually seen by itself without the MB

CHC Community Health Council (now only in Wales)

CHD Coronary Heart Disease - a group of clinical syndromes including angina pectoris, acute myocardial infarction and sudden ischaemic death.

CHDGP Collection of Health Data from General Practice project

CHDRH Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital NHS Trust

CHESTCombined Higher Education Software Team

CHEX Community Health Exchange

CHF Congestive Heart Failure

CHG Community Hospitals Group (now taken over by BUPA)

CHI Commission for Health Improvement (obs)

or Community Health Index

CHIA Comprehensive Health Impact Assessment

CHIME Centre for Health Informatics in Medical Education

CHIP City Housing Improvement Plan

CHIQ Centre for Health Information Quality (obs)

CHIR Canadian Institutes of Health Research

CHIRP Confidential Human Factors Incident Reporting Procedure

ChM Chirurgiae Magister (Master of Surgery)

CHMS Council for Heads of Medical Schools

CHMU Central Health Monitoring Unit (obs)

CHNT Christies Hospital NHS Trust

CHOU Central Health Outcomes Unit

CHP Community Health Partnership

or Combined Heat and Power

CHRC Community Health and Resource Centres

CHS Community Health Services

or Chest Heart and Stroke

or Centre for Horizon Scanning, University of Birmingham

or Child Health Surveillance

CI Clinical Indicator

CIA Chief Internal Auditor

CIC Common Information Core or

Charitable Incorporated Organisation

CIEH Chartered Institute of Environmental Health

CIM Capital Investment Manual

CIMA Chartered Institute of Management Accountants

CIMP Clinical Information Management Programme

CIMS Coalition for Improving Maternity Services

CINAHL Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health

CIO Confederation of Indian Organisations or

Charitable Incorporated Organisation


CIOT Chartered Institute of Taxation

CIPD Chartered Institute of Personnel Development

CIPFA Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountancy

CIPG Community Investment Partnership Group

CIS Clinical Information System

or Commonwealth of Independent States (republics of former USSR)

CISH Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Mental Health

CISIG Coastal Issues Special Interest Group

CIT Capacity Implementation Team

CITU Central Information Technology Unit - (obs)

CIX The Commercial Internet eXchange Association

CJC Commissioning Joint Committee

CJD Creutzfeld Jacob Disease

CLA Commissioner for Local Administration (the ombudsman)

CLAPA Cleft Lip and Palate Association

CLDT Community Learning Disability Team

CLGMS Cash Limited General Medical Services

CLib Cochrane Library

CLIP Central-Local Information Partnership

or CLinical Improvements Database

CLL Chronic Low Life

CLP Constituency Labour Party

or Central-Local Partnership

CLS Community Legal Service

CM Community Midwife

CMA Cost Minimisation Analysis

CMAJ Canadian Medical Association Journal

CMB Central Midwives Board (obs)

cm cras mane - tomorrow morning

CMD Continuing Medical Development

CME Continuing Medical Education

CMF Capital Modernisation Fund

CMHN Community Mental Handicap Nurse (obsolete)

CMHSD Centre for Mental Health Services Development, Kings College London

CMHT Central Manchester Healthcare Trust

or Community Mental Health Team

CML Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia

CMMC Central Manchester and Manchester Children's NHS Trust

CMMS Case Mix Management System

CMO Chief Medical Officer

or Clinical Medical Officer

or Community Medical Officer

CMP Civilian Medical Practitioner

CMPCT Central Manchester PCT

CMPS Centre for Management and Policy Studies

CMT Corporate Management Team

CMV cytomegalovirus

CN Charge Nurse

CNM Clinical Nurse Manager

CNN Cable Network News

CNO Chief Nursing Officer

CNS Central Nervous System

or Clinical Nurse Specialist

or Community Nursing Service

CNST Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts

CO Cabinet Office

or Course Organiser

or Complains Of

or carbon monoxide

or Chief Officer

or Capital Out-turn

CO2 carbon dioxide

COAD Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease - usually called COPD

CoAg Countryside Agency

COCH Countess of Chester Hospital

COGPED Committee of General Practice Education Directors

COGIT Chief Officers’ Group of Information Technology

COI Central Office of Information

COIN Circulars On the INternet: All the HSCs etc. (obs)

or Clinical Oncology Information Network (obs)

COMA Committee on Medical Aspects of Nutrition (abolished 2000)

COMARE Committe on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment

COMEAP Committee On the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants

COPC Community Oriented Primary Care

COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

COPDenD Conference of Postgraduate Dental Deans

COPE Committee on Publication Ethics

COPMED Conference of Postgraduate Medical Deans

COR Capital Out-turn & Receipts return

CORE Clinical Outcomes Research and Effectiveness

COREC Central Office for Research Ethics Committees

COSHH Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations

COT Committee on Toxicity

CP Cerebral palsy

or Community Plan

or Communist Party

CPA Care Programme Approach Patients needs for care are assessed on a four point scale. Level 4 means that you are dangerously ill and need supervision. Level 1 means that you are not thought to need anything more than a bit of advice and counselling.

or Comprehensive Performance Assessment

or Clinical Pathology Accreditation

CPAG Child Poverty Action Group

or Capital Prioritisation Advisory Group

CPAP Continuous Positive Airway Pressure

CPC Cost Per Case

CPCCH Consultant Paediatrician in Community Child Health

CPCME Centre for Postgraduate and Continuing Medical Education

CPCU Child Protection Co-ordination Unit

CPD Continuing Professional Development

CPEP Clinical Practice Evaluation Programme

CPFA Charted Public Finance Accountant

CPGB Communist Party of Great Britain - an organisation with ambitions to change the world and with the appearance but not the reality of democratic control - just the like the NHS.

CPH Certificate in Public Health

CPHL Central Public Health Library

CPHM Certified Professional in Healthcare Materiel Management

CPHVA Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association - part of AMICUS

CPMP Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products

CPN Community Psychiatric Nurse

CPNA Community Psychiatric Nurses Association - now the Mental Health Nursing Association

CPO Chief Pharmaceutical Officer

CPOD Centre for Professional and Organisational Development

CPPIH Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health

CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation - what the crash team does, or you can learn to do it yourself

or Come Put-em-ta Rest

or Capital Payments & Receipts return

or Child Protection Register

CPRE Council for the Protection of Rural England

CPSM Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine

CPU Contracts & Purchasing Unit

or Central Processing Unit

CPWP Capital Programmes Working Party

CQSW Certificate of Qualification of Social Work abolished 1989

CRAG Charging for Residential Accommodation Guide. Guidance for local authorities on community care financial assessment

Or Clinical Resource and Audit Group, now part of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland

CRAGPIE Committee of Regional Advisers in General Practice Education (obs)

CRANE Craniofacial Anomalies Register

CRASH Co-ordinated Research in to Accidents on Salford Highways

CRAFT Can't Remember a Fucking Thing

CRB Criminal Records Bureau

CRC Clinical Research Centre

or Cancer Research Campaign

CRCF Conference of Royal Colleges and their Faculties

CRD Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

CRDC Central Research and Development Committee

CRE Commission for Racial Equality

CRED Clinical Governance/Education and R&D subgroup

CRES Cash Releasing Efficiency Savings

CRHP Council for the Regulation of Healthcare Professionals


CRIO Chief Registration & Inspection Officer - Responsible for the Health and Social Service Registration and Inspection Units and Guidance-ad-Litem service.

CRMD Cochrane Review Methodology Database

CRT Community Rehabilitation Team

or Cathode Ray Tube

or Coalfields Regeneration Trust

CRU Civil Renewal Unit (Home Office)

CS Capital Strategy

CSA Child Support Agency

CSAG Clinical Standards Advisory Group

CSASHS Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service

CSC Community Sector Coalition

CSCI Commission for Social Care Inspection

CSCM Civil Service Corporate Management

CSD Carbonated Soda Drinks

CSEC Corporate Specialist Education Committee

CSF Cerebro-spinal Fluid or

Community Support Framework

CSIP Care Services Improvement Partnership

CSM Committee on the Safety of Medicines

or Christian Socialist Movement

CSMC Civil Service Management Committee

CSO Civil Society Organisation (or NGO)

CSP Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

or Children's Services Plan

CSPG Central Support Protection Grant

CSR Comprehensive Spending Review

CSS Certificate of Satisfactory Service

or Cascading Style Sheets

or Children's Social Services

CSSD Central Sterile Supplies Department

or Central Support Service Department

CSV Community Service Volunteers

CT Computerised tomography - a scanning technology

CTA Community Transport Association (UK )

CTAC Community Technical Aid Centre

CTB Council Tax Benefit

CTBSL Council Tax Benefit Subsidy Limitation

CTD Close To Death

or Circling The Drain

CTG cardiotocography electronic measurement of fetal heart and uterine contractions

CTI Computers in Teaching Initiative (abolished 1999)

CTN Charity Trustees Network

CTO Compulsory Treatment Order

CTPLD Community Team for People with Learning Disabilities

CTSS Council Tax at Standard Spending

CU Casualties Union

or Credit Union

CUA Cost-Utility Analysis

CUE Community Unit for the Elderly

CURS Centre for Urban and Regional Studies

CUV Current Use Value

CV Curriculum Vitae. A list of your qualifications and achievements

CVA Cardio-Vascular Accident - a stroke

CVCP Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals

CVD Cardio vascular disease

CVE Continuous Vocational Education

CVS Cardiovascular system

or Council for Voluntary Service

Cx cervix

CYA Cover Your Arse

CYPF Children and Young People's Fund

CYPS Children and Young People's Services

CYPU Children and Young People's Unit

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D5W Dextrose 5% in Water

D&C Dilatation & Curettage - a gynaecological procedure of questionable usefulness

D&T Drugs and Therapeutics

D/C DisContinue

or Discharge

DA Distributable Amount

or District Audit

DA(SER) Domestic Affairs Subcommittee (of the Cabinet) on Social Exclusion and Regeneration

DAAT Drug and Alcohol Team

DAN Disabled People's Direct Action Network

DANS Duty Assessment Nurses

DARE Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness

DART Drug and Alcohol Resistance Training

DASG Drugs and Alcohol Specific Grant

DASS Director of Adult Social Services

DAT Drugs Action Team

or Disability Appeal Tribunal (obs)

or Digital Audio Tape

DATA Distress Awareness Training Agency

DBFO Design Build Finance and Operate

DC District Council

DCA Department for Constitutional Affairs

DCFS Directorate of Counter-Fraud Services (obs)

or Department for Children, Schools and Families

DCMS Department for Culture, Media & Sport

DCT Disabled Children’s Team

DDA Disability Discrimination Act 1995,

Also The Disabled Drivers' Association

DDD Defined Daily Dose.

DDPHRCS Diploma in Dental Public Health, Royal College of Surgeons of England

DDRB Doctors and Dentists' Review Body

DEB Dental Estimates Board

DEC Development and Evaluation Committee replaced by NICE March 2000

DEFRA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

DEL Departmental Expenditure Limit

DERA Defence Evaluation Research Agency Dissolved July 2001

DES DiEthyl Stilbestrol

DETR Department of Environment, Transport & the Regions (no longer exists)

DFBO Design, Finance, Build & Operate

DfEE Department for Education and Employment (now renamed)

DfES Department for Education and Skills now (mostly DCFS)

DFFP Diploma of the Faculty of Family Planning

DFG Disabled Facilities Grant

DFID Department for International Development

DFO Done Fell Out

DFT Distance From Target

or Department of Transport

DG5 The Public Health part of the European Union

DGF Damn Good Fuck - often prescribed by male doctors for neurotic women. Compliance rate is unknown because such patients are often lost to follow up.

DGH District General Hospital

DGM District General Manager

DH Department of Health

DHA District Health Authority (obs April 2002)

DHSC Directorate of Health and Social Care (obs)

DHSS Department of Health and Social Security later split into DoH and DSS

DHTML Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language

DI Donor Insemination

DIA Drug Information Association

DIAL Disablement Information And Advice Lines

DIC Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation. A common complication of surgery.

or Dead in Car

DID Dissociative Identity Disorder

DIG Disablement Income Group

DIPEx Database of Individual Patient Experiences

DIPG Drug Information Pharmacists Group

DIPHSM Diploma in Health Services Management

DipSW Diploma in Social Work

DIRTBAG Dirty Indigent Requesting Transport Because Alcohol Gives (him) seizures

DIS Departmental Investment Strategy

DISP Developing Information System for Purchasers

DISS Disability Information Service Surrey

DisCASS Disabled Citizens Advice and Support Service

DKA Diabetic KetoAcidosis

DLA Disability Living Allowance. Benefit for people who have trouble walking or are in need of personal care.

DLCV Drugs of Limited Clinical Value

DLF Disabled Living Foundation

DLO Direct Labour Organisation

DMARD Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug

DMC District Medical Committee

DMDDuchenne Muscular Dystrophy

DMF Disabled Motorists Federation

DMFT Number of Decayed, Missing or Filled Teeth

DMHE Department of Mental Health for the Elderly

DMO District Medical Officer (obs)

DMT Departmental Management Team

DMU Directly Managed Unit

DN District Nurse

DNA Did Not Arrive - or attend

or Deoxyribonucleic Acid

DNER Distributed National Electronic Resource

DNGNet Disability Network Group

DNI Do Not Intubate (similar to DNR)

DNR Do Not Resuscitate

DNS Director of Nursing Services

or Domain Name Server

DNW Drugs North West

DOA Dead on Arrival

or Date of Accident (in A&E depts)

or Date of Admission

DOB Date of birth

DOCA Deoxycorticosterone acetate

DoF Director of Finance

DOGPE Director of General Practice Education

DoH Department of Health - the Government Department responsible for healthcare in England.

DPB Dental Practice Board

DPH Director of Public Health

DPI Disabled Peoples' International

DPR Directorate Performance Review

DPT Diptheria Pertussis Tetanus vaccine

DPTC Disabled Person's Tax Credit (now abolished)

DRC Disability Rights Commission

or Depreciated Replacement Cost

DRF Direct Revenue Funding

DRG Diagnosis Related Group

DRS Dental Reference Service

DRT Dead Right There

DRTTTT Dead Right There, There, There, and There (used after pedestrian/train altercations)

DSC Disability Services Centre or

Directory of Social Change

DSD Decontamination Services Department

Dsh deliberate self harm

DSO Direct Service Organisation

DSON Detailed Statement Of Need

DSPD Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder

DSS Department of Social Security. Now the DWP

or Decision Support System

DSU Day Surgery Unit

DTA Development Trusts Association

DTB Drug and Therapeutic Bulletin

DTC Day Treatment Centre

or Diagnostic and Treatment Centre

DTD Document Type Definition

DTI Department of Trade and Industry

DTLR Department for Transport, Local Government and Regions (obs)

DTNI Day Time Net Inflow

DTTO Drug Testing and Treatment Order

DTP Diphtheria Tetanus Pertussis - a vaccine

DUI Driving Under the Influence

DV Dependent Variable

or Domestic Violence

or domiciliary visit

or Deo Volente (God willing)

DVLA Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

DVT Deep Vein Thrombosis

DWA Disability Working Allowance. A benefit for people working at least 16 hours a week who have a disability affecting their working ability. Now replaced by DPTC

DWM Dead White Male

DWP Department for Work and Pensions

Dx Diagnosis

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EAC Estimated Annual Cost

EAG Expert Advisory Group

EAPN European Anti Poverty Network

EAZ Education Action Zone

EASR European age standardised rate A measure of the incidence of disease.

EBD Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties

EBL Evidence-Based Learning

EBM Evidence based medicine

EBMH Evidence Based Mental Health

eBNF The BNF on a CD-ROM

EBOC Evidence Based On Call

EBP Evidence based practice

EBS Emergency Bed Service

EBV Epstein Barr Virus

EC European Community or

Experience Corps

ECDL European Computer Driving Licence

ECF Extracellular fluid

ECG Electrocardiogram

ECJ European Court of Justice

ECN Emergency Care Network

ECP Emergency Care Practitioner

ECR Extra Contractual Referral - an arrangement under the NHS internal market to cover a referral to an NHS Trust for which there was no existing contract with the patient’s health authority or residence or GP Fundholder. Now replaced by OATS.

ECT electro-convulsive therapy

ECTS European credit transfer scheme

ED Enumeration District. The smallest unit for census data - about 200 homes

or Economic Development

EDA Erectile Dysfunction Association. A fine upstanding body of men.

EDI Electronic Data Interchange - exchanging information electronically, not including faxing.

EDIFACT Electronic Data Interchange - Electronic Data Interchange is a particular structure which complies with ISO 9735. This is the standard for EDI adopted by the NHS.

EDIT Elderly Dementia Intervention Team

EDP Emotionally Disturbed Person

or Education Development Plan

EDS Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

EDT Emergency Duty Team Social Services Departments

EDTA ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid

EEA European Economic Area

EEC European Economic Community

EEG Electroencephalogram

EFGCP European Forum for Good Clinical Practice

EFL External Financing Limit

EFM electronic fetal monitoring

EFMI European Federation for Medical Informatics

EFQM European Foundation for Quality Management

EGFR Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor

EHIC European Health Insurance Card

EHMA European Healthcare Management Association

EHOEnvironmental Health Officer

EHP Education and Health Partnership

or Environmental Health Practitioner

EHR Electronic Health Record

EHS Extremely Hazardous Substance

EIA European Information Association

EiC Excellence in Cities

EIF European Investment Fund

EIS Early Intervention Service

EL Executive Letter

eLIB electronic Libraries Programme

ELP Essential Lifestyles Planning - Person centred planning tool emphasising rhythms and routines of daily life used in Learning Disability Services.

EMA emergency medical admission

or Education Maintenance Allowance

EMAG Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant

EMAS Employment Medical Advisory Service

EMEA European Medicines Evaluation Agency

emf electromotive force

EMG electromyogram

EMI Elderly Mentally Ill

EMIS Egton Medical Information System

EMLC European Midwives Liason Committee

EMO Examining Medical Officer

EMR Electronic Medical Record

EMS Emergency Medical Services

EMU Economic and Monetary Union

EMW Early Morning Wakening - symptom of depression

EMWA European Medical Writers Association

EN English Nature

ENB English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting (obsolete)

ENHPA European Network of Health Promotion Agencies

ENIL European Network on Independent Living

ENP Emergency Nurse Practitioner

ENT Ear Nose & Throat properly known as Otorhinolaryngology

EO Employers' Organisation

EOC Equal Opportunities Commission

EOH Ethyl Alcohol

EP English Partnerships

or Emergency Planning

EPACT Electronic Prescribing Analysis and Costs

EPCS Environmental, Protective & Cultural Services

EPH Elderly Person’s Home

EPHR Electronic Patient Health Record

EPI EPInephrine

EPICS Elderly Persons Integrated Care Scheme

EPO Erythropoietin

EPP Expert Patients Programme

EPR Electronic Patient Record

EQUIP Effectiveness and Quality in Practice Group

ER Endoplasmic Reticulum

ERA Education Reform Act 1988

ERA-ETDA European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association

ERDF European Regional Development Fund

ERDIP Electronic Record Development Implementation Programme

ERG electroretinogram

ERI Edinburgh Research and Innovation Limited

ERIC Estates Return Information Collection

EROS Electronic Records in Office Systems

ES Employment Service

ESAT Emergency Services Action Team (obs)

ESF Education Standards Fund

or European Social Fund

ESMI Elderly severely mentally ill - dementia.

ESOL English for Speakers of Other Languages

ESP Economic and Social Partnership

ESR Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate

or Electronic Staff Record

ESRA European Society of Regulatory Affairs - now TOPRA

ESRC Economic and Social Science Research Council

ESRI Economic and Social Research Institute - Ireland

ESV Employer Supported Volunteering

ET Executive team

or Environmental Technologies

ETA Estimated Time of Arrival

ETF Environment Task Force

ETP Employer Training Pilot

ETT Endotracheal Tube

EU European Union

EVH Electronic Village Hall - community computing and Internet facility

EWA Enterprise-wide Arrangement

EWTD European Working Time Directive

EYDCP Early Years Development and Childcare Plan

EYDP – Early Years Development Partnership

EYPD Early Years and Play Department

EZ Employment Zone

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FA Friedreich's Ataxia

FAB Family Action Benchill

FACS Fair Access to Care Services

FACTS Framework for Appropriate Care Throughout Sheffield

FAQ Frequently asked questions

FARR Fixed Asset Restatement Reserve

FAWN Funding Advice Workers Network

FB Foreign Body

FBC Full Business Case - which is submitted to the NHSE for approval when a potential choice for a new development has been made and the costs are known

or Full Blood Count

FC Family Credit now replaced by Tax Credits

or Fixed Cost

or Factor Cost

FCAS Federation of Charity Advice Services

FCDL Federation for Community Development Learning

FCE Finished Consultant Episode - an episode where the patient has completed a period of care under one consultant within one hospital provider and is transferred to another consultant or discharged or dies

FCO Foreign and Commonwealth Office

FDA US Food and Drug Administration

FDGB Fall Down Go Boom

FDIU fetal death in utero

FDSRCSEng Fellow in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons in England

FDTL Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning

FE Further Education

FEC Further Education College

FEFC Further Education Funding Council disbanded on 31 March 2001 replaced by the Learning and Skills Council

FENTO Further Education National Training Organisation

FES Family Expenditure Survey

FFA free fatty acids

FFCE first finished consultant episode

FFDRCS Fellow of the Faculty of Dental Surgery Royal College of Surgeons

FFP Fresh Frozen Plasma

FH Family History

FHom Faculty of Homeopathy

FHR Fetal Heart Rate

FHS Family Health Services. Provided by GPs, GDPs, Optometrists, and Pharmacists

FHSA Family Health Service Authority. Role now taken over by the Health Authority

FHSAA Family Health Service Appeal Authority

FHT Fetal Heart Tones

FIAC Federation of Independent Advice Centres

FIBD Found In Bed Dead

FIG Food Initiatives Group

FIPO Federation of Independent Practitioner Organisations

FIS Financial Information Service (run by IPF) or System

or Family Income Supplement (became WFTC)

FITTA Fixed Term Training Appointment

FIU Fraud Investigation Unit

FLK Funny Looking Kid

FLM&D Funny Looking Mum & Dad

FMB Feeling Much Better

FMD Foot and Mouth Disease

FMP Financial Management Programme

FNA Fine Needle Aspiration

FOM Faculty of Occupational Medicine of Royal College of Physicians

FORD Found On Road Dead

FOTS Food on the Stove

FOTW Food on the Wok

fp freezing point

FP10 A prescription form.

FPA Family Planning Association

FPC Family Planning Clinic

or Family Practitioner Committee, which was replaced by the FHSA.

FPharmM Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine

FPHM Faculty of Public Health Medicine

FPS Family Planning Services

or Family Practitioner Services

FR Financial Regulation

FRCA Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists

FRCGP Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners

FRCOG Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

FRCOphth Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists

FRCP Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

FRCP(Ed) Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

FRCP(Glasg) Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow

FRCPath Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists

FRCPCH Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

FRCPE Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of England

FRCPI Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

FRCPS(Glasg) Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

FRCPsych Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

FRCR Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists

FRCS Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons

FRCS(Ed) Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

FRCS(Glasg) Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow

FRCSE Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

FRCSI Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland

FRED Financial Reporting Exposure Draft (draft FRS)

FRFPSG Fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

FRIPHH Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene

FRS Financial Reporting Standard

or Fellow of the Royal Society

FRSH Fellow of the Royal Society of Health

FS Fresh Start

FSA Food Standards Agency

or Financial Services Authority

FSH Follicle Stimulating Hormone

FSID Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths

FSM Free School Meals

FSO Forum Support Organisations

FSU Family Support Unit - now know as Family Unit (FU).

FT Full Time

or Foundation Trust

FTC Federal Trade Commission

Fte Full Time Equivalent

FU Family Unit. A mixture of residential and outreach work for children and young people and their families.

or follow up

FUBAR Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition

FUD Fear Uncertainty and Doubt - traditional salesman's weapons

FWATAG Flexible Working And Training Advisory Group

FWN Further Work Needed

Fx Fracture

FY Full Year

FY1 Foundation Year 1 (equivalent to House Officer)

FY2 Foundation Year 2 (equivalent to Senior House Officer)

fyc Full Year Cost

FYE Full Year Equivalent

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G-CAT Government IT Catalogue

GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Practice

GAD generalised anxiety

or Government Actuary's Department

GAG Getting Ahead of the Game

GAL Guardian Ad Litem

GALRO Guardian Ad Litem Reporting Officer - these are appointed to represent the best interests of the child. The Guardian is an independent social worker

GAPS Genetic Information And Patient Services, Inc

GAS Gloucestershire Ambulance Service

or Group A Streptococcus

GATB Global Alliance for TB Drug Development

GATS General Agreement on Trade in Services

GAYE Give As You Earn

GBP Pounds sterling - for people who don't have a Ј sign

GBS Guillaine-Barre Syndrome

GCC General Chiropractic Council

GCS Glasgow Coma Score

GCSE General Certificate of Secondary Education

GDA Guidline Daily Amount

GDC General Dental Council

GDP General Dental Practitioners - dentists who work either in private practice, for the NHS, or offer a combined service

or Gross Domestic Product

GDS General Dental Services

GENECIS General Clinical Information System

GFR Glomerular Filtration Rate

GGHB Greater Glasgow Health Board

GGNHSB Greater Glasgow NHS Board

GH Growth Hormone

GHG General Healthcare Group

GHQ General Health Questionnaire

GHS General Household Survey

GI Gastro-intestinal

GIDA Government Intervention in Deprived Areas

GIGO Garbage In Garbage Out

GIS Geographical Information System - an organised collection of computer hardware and software designed to create, manipulate, analyse and display geographical data.

GISA Glycopeptide-intermediate resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

GIST Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour

GIT Gastro-intestinal Tract

GLA Greater London Authority

GLAD Greater London Association of Disabled People

GLC Greater London Council

glc gas-liquid chromatography

GM Geiger-Muller

GMAS Greater Manchester Ambulance Service

or Greater Manchester Action on Smoking

GMB Formerly the General Municipal and Boilermakers Union

GMC General Medical Council

GMCDP Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People

GMCVO Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation

GMEX Greater Manchester Exhibition centre

GMO genetically modified organisms

GMP Greater Manchester Police

or General Medical Practitioner

GMPTE Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive

GMR Greater Manchester Radio

GMS General Medical Services. Mostly provided by GPs under the NHS (General Medical Services) regulations 1992

GMSC General Medical Services Committee

GNP Gross National Product

GNVQ General National Vocational Qualifications

GO Government Office for the Regions

GO-East Government Office for the East of England

GO-NW Government Office for the North West

GOA Gone On Arrival

GOC Gynaecological Oncology Centre

or General Optical Council

GOEM Government Office for the East Midlands

GOK God Only Knows

GOL Government Office for London

GOMA Get out of My Ambulance

GOMER Get Out Of My Emergency Room (US slang for an unwelcome patient)

GONW Government Office North West

GOP General Optical Council

GORs Government Office for the Regions

GOS General Ophthalmic Service

GOSC General Osteopathic Council

GOSE Government Office for the South East

GOSH Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

GOSW Government Office for the South West

GOWM Government Office for the West Midlands

GOYH Government Office for Yorkshire and The Humber

GP General practitioner - Family doctor

or Green Paper

GPAS General Practice Assessment Survey. Produced by the NPCRDC

GPASS General Practice Administration System Scotland

GPCG GP Commissioning group. See HSC 1998/030

GPEC GP Emergency Centre

GPFC General Practice Finance Corporation

GPFH GP Fund Holder

GPCC GP Commissioning Consultant

GPIAG General Practice Airways Group

GPMSS General Practice Minimum System Specification

GPO Good for Parts Only

GPS Global Positioning System

GPWSI GPs with a special interest

GRE Grant Related Expenditure (replaced by NRE)

GREA Grant Related Expenditure Assessment (replaced by SSA)

GRH Gloucester Royal Hospital

GRIPP Getting Research Into Purchasing and Practice

GSCC General Social Care Council

GSI Government Secure Intranet

GSL General Sales List - a medicine which can be sold anywhere

GSOH Good Sense of Humour just as important in the Health Service as on the lonely hearts pages

GSW Gun Shot Wound

GTLRC Gypsy and Traveller Law Reform Coalition

GTN Glyceryl Trinitrate

or Government Telephone Network

GUCH Grown Up Congenital Heart Patients Association

GUM Genito Urinary medicine. Where STDs are treated

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HA Health Authority or

Housing Association

HAS Health Advisory Service

or Human Activity System

HaCCRU Health and Community Care Research Unit based in Liverpool University

HAG Housing Association Grant

HAI Health Acquired Infection

HARP Hulme Action Research Project - works with people with mental health problems

HAS Health Advisory Service now HASCAS

HASCAS Health and Social Care Advisory Service

HASHD Hypertensive ArterioSclerotic Heart Disease

HASSASSA Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudication Act

HAT Housing Action Trust

HAZ Health Action Zone (obs)

Hb Haemoglobin

HB Health Board

or Housing Benefit

HBAI Households Below Average Income

HBG Health Benefit Group

HC Huntingdon's Chorea. Hereditary neurological condition. Now usually called Huntingdon's disease.

or Health Council

or Healthcare Commission

HCA Home Care Assistant - Social care Worker who provides domicilliary care. Formally known as home helps.

or Historic Cost Accounting

HCAG Hospital Consultants Advisory Group

HCG Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin

HCFA Health Care Financing Administration, the federal agency that administers the Medicare, Medicaid and Child Health Insurance Programs in the USA.

HCHS Hospital Community Health Service - hospital services, ambulances and certain community health services such as district nursing. These services are provided mostly by NHS Trusts.

HCIA Health Care Information, An American company which analyses health data. Now part of Solucient.

HCS Holiday Care Service

HCSP Health Care Service for Prisoners

HCW Health Care Worker Provides nursing support in clinical areas. NVQ qualified

HDA Health Development Agency (obs)

or Huntingdon's Disease Association

HDL High Density Lipoprotein

HDM House Dust Mite

HDU High Dependency Unit. One step down from the ITU

HE Health Education

or Higher Education

or haematoxylin and eosin

HEA Health Education Authority now replaced by the HDA

or Health Equity Audit

HEASIG High Ethnicity Authorities' Special Issues Group

HEBS Health Education Board for Scotland

HEED Health Economic Evaluations Database

HEENT Head Eyes Ears Nose and Throat

HEFC Higher Education Funding Council

HEI Higher Education Institution

HEIF Higher Education Innovation Fund

HELMIS Health Management Information Service

HEO Health Education Officer

HEP Health Education Partnership

HEPA High Efficiency Particulate Air

HERO Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the UK

HEROINE Health Electronic Resources Online In Northern England

HES Hospital Episode Statistics

HEVU Health Education Video Unit

HFA Hydrofluoroalkane

HFEA Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

HfHT Help for Health Trust (obs)

HFMA Healthcare Financial Management Association

HGC Human Genetics Commission

HIA Housing Improvement Agency

or Health Impact Assessment

HIB Haemophilus Influenzae type B

HIBCC Health Index Business Communications Council

HImP Health Improvement Programme - an action programme to improve health and healthcare locally .

HIMS Highland and Islands Medical Service

HIP Housing Investment Programme - Annual bidding process for local authority housing departments which determines regional and local allocation of public sector investment in both public and private sector housing

or Health Investment Programme

HIPE Hospital In-Patient Enquiry Scheme

HISN High Individual Support Needs

HISS Hospital Information and Support System

HIV Human Immuno-deficiency Virus

HIU Health Inequalities Unit

HIYE Health in Your Environment

HJSC Hospital Junior Staff Committee

HL7 Health Level 7

HLC Healthy Living Centre

HLF Heritage Lottery Fund

HLI Healthy Living Initiative

HLPI High Level Performance Indicator

HMC&E Her Majesty's Customs and Excise

HMG Her Majesty's Government

HMI Her Majesty's Inspectorate (best known examples cover schools, police, prisons & fire)

HMIC Health Management Information Consortium

HMO Health Maintenance Organisation

or House in Multiple Occupation

HMR Hospital Medical Record

HMSO Her Majesties Stationery Office

HMT HM Treasury

hn Hac Nocte - to-night

HNA Health Needs Assessment

HNI Housing Needs Index

HPC Health Professions Council

HR Human Resources - personnel

HRQOL Health Related Quality of Life

HO House Officer

or Home Office

or History of

HoN Health of the Nation White Paper on Prevention published by the last Government

HoNOS Health of the Nation Outcomes Scale

HP Health Promotion

HPC Health Professions Council

HPE Higher Professional Education

or Health Promotion England (obs)

HPERU Health Policy and Economic Research Unit

HPSS Health Promotion Specialist Service

HR Human Resources

HRA Housing Revenue Account

HRD Human Resource Development

HRG Healthcare Resource Group

HRT Hormone Replacement Therapy

hs hora somni - at bed time

HSA Human Serum Albumin

HSAC Health Service Advisory Committee

HSCHealth Service Circular - a series of management letters from the Department of Health, replacing ELs, HSGs, FDLs and FHSLs.

or Health Service Commissioner

or Health and Safety Commission

HSDU Hospital Sterile and Disinfection Unit

HSE Health and Safety Executive

HSG Health Service Guidance - a series of management instructions from the DOH

or Health Strategy Group

or Housing Support Grant

HSI Health Service Indicators

HSJ The Health Service Journal

HSMC Health Services Management Centre University of Birmingham

HSP Heart Sink Patient

or Healthy Schools Programme

HSPSCB High Security Psychiatric Services Commissioning Board (obs)

HST Higher Surgical Trainee. A Senior registrar in oldspeak.

HSTAT Health Services/Technology Assessment Text

HSV Herpes Simplex Virus

HTA Health Technology Assessment

HTAI Health Technology Assessment International

HTCS Hospital Travel Costs Scheme

HTH Hope This Helps

HTM High Technology Medicine

HTML Hypertext Markup Language. What Internet documents, including this one, are written in.

HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol

HUG Herefordshire Users Group

HV Health Visitor

or Home visit

HWI Healthy Workplace Initiative

HWRC Household Waste Recycling Centre

Hx History

Hz Hertz - cycles per second

or Home Zone

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J Judge (in law reports)

JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association

JANET Joint Academic Network

JCB Joint Commissioning Board

JCC Joint Consultative Committee

or Joint Consultants Committee

JCCO Joint Council for Clinical Oncology

JCE Joint Commissioning Executive

JCHMT Joint Committee for Higher Medical Training

JCHST Joint Committee for Higher Surgical Training

JCPTGP Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice

JCVI Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation

JDC Junior Doctors Committee

JE Job Evaluation

JEMS Journal of Emergency Medicine

JFA Joint Fire Authority

JFC Joint Formulary Committee

JFSG Joint Finance Steering Group

JFSSG Joint Food Safety and Standards Group

JHU Joint Health Unit

JIGSAW Project designed to reduce the need for hospital beds. Co-ordinated by GMAS.

JIP Joint Investment Plan - what you have to write in your BSVP group

JISC Joint Information Systems Committee

JLDS Joint Learning Disability Service (runs CLDTs).

JNC(J) Joint Negotiating Committee on junior doctors terms and conditions of service

JOL Jaws of Life

JPAC Joint Planning Advisory Committee

JPEG Jejunal Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy

JRCT Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

JRF Joseph Rowntree Foundation

JSA Job Seeker's Allowance

JSE Joint Strategy Executive

JSG Joint Stategy Group

JSOG Joint Senior Officers Group

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K-9 dog

KCL King's College London

KED Kendrick Extrication Device

KIGS Key Indicators, Geographical System

KISS Keep It Simple and Stupid

KPMG KPMG is an international firm of accountants. The letters don't seem to stand for anything now but it used to be Peat Marwick Mitchell.

KS 1 - 4 Key Stages 1-4. Part of the National Curriculum

KSF Knowledge and Skills Framework

KSS Kent Surrey and Sussex

KTD Kendrick Traction Device

KTP Knowledge Transfer Partnership

KVO Keep Veins Open

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L1-5 Bones in the lumbar spine

LA Local Authority

LAA Local Authority Association

or Local Area Agreement

LAC Looked After Children - A child who is looked after by a Local Authority and a child who is in the care of the local authority for more than 24 hours; or provided with accommodation by the authority

or Local Authority Circular.

or Local Authority Company

LACOTS Local Authorities Co-ordinating Body on Food and Trading Standards

LAD Local Authority District

LAFS Local Authority Financial Settlement

LAN Local Area Network

LAP Local Area Partnership

or Local Action Plan

LAPIS Locality and Practice Information

LARIA Local Authorities Research & Intelligence Association

LAS Locum Appointment Service

or Lights And Siren

or London Ambulance Service

LASA London Advice Services Alliance

LASFE Local Authorities' Self-Financed Expenditure

LASGLH Lights and sirens, go like hell

LASS Local Authority Social Services.

LASSL Local Authority Social Services Letter

LAT Local Appointment for Training

LATF Local Asthma Taskforce

LATS Long-acting thyroid stimulator

LAWDC Local Authority Waste Disposal Company

LAY Look After Yourself

LB London Borough

LBC London Borough Council

LBGU London Borough Grants Unit

LCC Leicester City Council

or (obs) London County Council

LCD Liquid Crystal Display

or Lord Chancellor's Department (obs)

LCFS Local Counter Fraud Specialist

LD Learning Difficulties

or Local Democracy

or Liberal Democrat

LDA Local Development Agency

or London Development Agency

LDAF Learning Disabilities Award Framework

LDC Local Dental Committee - the statutory body comprised of GDPs that represents dental practices in the local area.

LD/MH Learning Difficulties/ Mental Handicap

LDH Large Diameter Hose

LDL Low density lipoprotein - high levels are harmful

LDP Local Delivery Plan

LDSAG Local Diabetes Service Advisory Group

LE Lower Extremities

LEA Local Education Authority

LEC Local Enterprise Company

LEI Local Employment Initiative

LEL Lower Explosive Limit

LEO Leading Empowered Organisations

LETS Local Exchange Trading Scheme

LFS Labour Force Survey

LFT Liver Function Test

LGA Local Government Association.

LGBT Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender

LGC Local Government Chronicle

LGFR Local Government Finance Report

LGFS Local Government Financial Settlement

or Local Government Financial Statistics

LGHA Local Government & Housing Act 1989

LGIB Local Government International Bureau

LGIU Local Government Information Unit

LGMB Local Government Management Board

LGPS Local Government Pension Scheme

LGV lymphogranuloma venereum

LH Luteinizing hormone

LHCC Local Health Care Co-operative Scottish sort of PCG

LHG Local Health Group A sort of Welsh PCG

LIF Left Iliac Fossa or

Local Initiatives Fund

LIFT Local Improvement Finance Trust

LINC Library and Information Commission (obs)

LIO Local Implementation Officer or

Local Infrastructure Organisation

LIP Local Implementation Plans

LIS Local Implementation Strategy

or Library Information System

LISI Low Income Scheme Index. Measure of deprivation based on claims for exemption from prescription charges on grounds of low income.

LIT Local Implementation Team

LIVJM Liverpool John Moores University

LIZEI London Implementation Zone Educational Initiative

LKKS Liver, Kidney, Kidney, Spleen

LLL Life Long Learning

LLQ Left Lower Quadrant

LLSC Local Learning & Skills Council

LLTI Limiting Long term Illness

LMA Laryngeal Mask Airway

LMC Local Medical Committee - the statutory local representative committee for all GPs in the area covered by the health authority.

LMCA Long-term Medical Conditions Alliance

LMP Last Menstrual Period

LMS Local Management of Schools

LMWAG Local Medical Workforce Advisory Groups, formed in 1996 to co-ordinate postgraduate medical education between groups of Trusts. There are around 5 or 6 in each NHS Region.

LNRS Local Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy

LOBNH Lights On But Nobody Home

LOC Level of Consciousness

LOL Little Old Lady

LOS Length of Stay. A measure of activity in hospital wards.

LNRS Local Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy

LPC Local Pharmaceutical Committee - a committee of pharmacists

LPG Liquified Petroleum Gas

LPM Litres Per Minute

LPS Local Pharmaceutical Services

or Lipopolysaccaride

LPSA Local Public Service Agreement

LRD Labour Research Department

LREC Local Research Ethics Committee

LRI Leicester Royal Infirmary

LRR Local Reference Rent

LRS Lactated Ringers Solution

LRTI Lower Respiratory Tract Infection

LSB Long Spine Board

or Local Schools Budget

LSC Legal Services Commission

or Learning & Skills Council

LSCG Local Specialised Commissioning Group

LSCS lower segment caesarean section

LSCWDC Lancashire and South Cumbria Workforce Development Confederation

LSHTM London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

LSP Local Strategic Partnership

LSTM Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

LSVT Large Scale Voluntary Transfer

Lt Left

LTA Long Term Agreement

LTC Long Term Condition

LTH Luteotrophic, lactogenic hormone - prolactin

LTM Learning to Manage Health information

LTP Local Transport Plan

LTPS Liability to Third Parties Scheme

LTSA Long term service agreement

LTVS Long-term Ventilatory Support - help with breathing for people who cannot breathe without it.

LTSA long term service agreement

LUQ Left Upper quadrant

LWPG Local Winter Planning Group

LZ Landing Zone

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MA Master of Arts

MAA Medical Artists Association of Great Britain

MAAQ Multidisciplinary Audit and Quality Group In Manchester replaced by the ACTS.

MAB Metropolitan Asylums Board (obs)

MAC Medical Advisory Committee

MACA Mental After Care Association now called Together

MACC Manchester Alliance for Community Care - An alliance of local voluntary organisations who share common views about the rights of disadvantaged people to live in the community.

MACHEM Manchester Action Committee on Health for Ethnic Minorities - now defunct

MADEL Medical and Dental Education Levy

MADEN Medical and Dental Education Network (obs)

MAE Moves All Extremities

MAES Manchester Adult Education Service

MAFF Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (now part of DEFRA)

MAGGOT Medically Able, Go Get Other Transportation

MALDA Multi Agency Learning Disability Assessment

MANCAS Manchester Care Assessment Schedule

MAP Management Action Plan

MAPS MIND Arts Project Stockport

MAR2C Matching Resources to Care - This is a mental health information system for caseload monitoring devised to study cases of serious mental illness. MARC2 can compare data from Social Services, Health Services and the voluntary sector.

MARMAP Multi Agency Risk Management Assessment Process

MARP Multi Agency Risk Assessment Panel - decides whether mentally ill people are dangerous

MAS Minimal Access Surgery

or Manchester Alcohol Service

MASC Medical Advisers Support Centre - See NPC

or Medical Academic Staff Committee

MASH Manchester Action on Street Health

MAST Multi-Agency Support Team

or Military Anti Shock Trousers

MASTA Medical Advisory Services for Travellers Abroad

MAT Medical Appeal Tribunal

MAVIS Mobility Advice and Vehicle Information Service

MB Medicinae Baccalaureus Basic medical degree. Usually with CHB

MBA Masters in Business Administration

MBBS Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery

MBC Metropolitan Borough Council

MC Medicines Commission

MCA Motorcycle Accident

or Medicines Control Agency

MCC Manchester City Council

or Millennium Control Centre

or Magistrates Courts Committee

or Manchester Chamber of Commerce

MCCR Manchester Council for Community Relations

MCDH A dentist's qualification

MCF Manchester Carers Forum - A co-ordinating group that provides support to carers. It provides an opportunity for carers’ viewpoints to be noted and represented in the wider community.

MChD Master of Dental Surgery

MChOrth Master of Orthopaedic Surgery

MCH mean corpuscular haemoglobin

MCHC mean corpuscular l haemoglobin concentration

MCHM Manchester Centre for Healthcare Management (obs)

MCI Mass Casualty Incident

MCIN Manchester Community Information Network run a network of computer terminals with a local information service

MCL Manchester Community Living - Social Services in-house provider division.

MCN Managed Clinical Network

MCO Managed Care Organisation

MCP Male Chauvinist Pig (obs?)

MCPJ metacarpal joint

MCQ Multiple Choice Questions

MCRG Medical Career Research Group

MCSP Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

MCV Main Corpuscular Volume

MD Medicinae Doctor (Doctor of Medicine) first medical degree (US version)

MDA Medical Devices Agency (obs)

MDD Medical Device Directorate

MDDUS Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland

MDG Muscular Dystrophy Group

MDI Metered Dose Inhaler

MDM medical decision making

MDO Mentally Disordered Offender

MDP Middle [school], Deemed Primary [school]

MDR Multiple Drug Resistant

MDS Master of Dental Surgery

or Middle [school], Deemed Secondary [school]

or Minimum Data Set

MDT Mobile Data Terminal

or Multi Disciplinary Team

MDU Medical Defence Union. Lawyers paid by insurance who defend doctors accused of negligence

or ut a me dictum - as directed by me

ME Myalgic Encephalitis

MEC Management Education for Clinicians

MEDITEL A GP Information system

MEDLARS Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System

MEDS Medical deputising service

MENCAP Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children &Adults

MEP Member of European Parliament

MEQ Modified Examination Question

MeReC MeReC Bulletin is published by the National Prescribing Centre

MERV Medical Emergency Response Vehicle

MESB Medical Education Standards Board

MeSH Medical Subject Headings

MESMAC Men who have sex with men

MESOL Management Education Scheme by Open Learning

METC Mersey Education and Training Consortium

MFA Malicious False Alarm

MFF Market Forces Factor

MFOccM Member of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine

MFPharmM Member of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine

MFPHM Member of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine

MFS Market Forces Supplement

mg Milligramme

MGA Myasthenia Gravis Association

MGC Museums & Galleries Commission (abolished 2000)

MGP Medendium Group Publishing

MGS Modernising Government Secretariat

or Manchester Grammar School

MHA Mental Health Act 1983

MHAC Mental Health Act Commission

MHC Major Histocompatability Complex

MHG Mental Health Grant

MHIG Mental Health Information Group

MHIS Mental Health Information Strategy

MHMDS Mental Health Minimum Data Set

MHPAF Mental Health Performance Assessment Framework

MHPSS Manchester Health Promotion Specialist Service

MHRA Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

MHRT - Mental Health Review Tribunal convened to hear appeals against detention under the MHA

MHT Mentalhealth Task Force

MHz Megahertz - megacycles per second

MI Myocardial Infarction - heart attack

or Mental Illness

MIDIRS Midwife Information and Resource Service

MIE Medical Informatics Europe

MIG Medical Information Group

MIGS Men In Grey Suits

MIMAS Manchester Information and Associated Services

MIMS Monthly Index of Medical Specialities. Guide to common prescribed drugs, inc. costs, used extensively in general practice

MIMMS Major Incident Medical Management and Support

MINAP Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project

MIND Organisation of mental health users

MINI Mental Illness Needs Index

MIQUEST A software system

MIRAS Mortgage Interest Relief at Source (obs)

MIS Management Information Systems

MISG Mental Illness Specific Grant - Government subsidy to supplement spending by local authorities on social care for mentally ill people living in the community.

MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MITAG Medical Information and Technology Advisory Group

MJ Municipal Journal

MLA Museums, Libraries and Archives Council

MLD Mild Learning Disability

MLSO Medical Laboratory Scientific Officer

MMC Modernising Medical Careers

mmhg Millimetres of mercury - what pressure is measured in.

MMedSci Master of Medical Science

MMHSCT Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust

mmol millimoles, a chemistry measurement

MMR Measles Mumps and Rubella vaccination

MMS Medical Management Services

MMSAC Medical Manpower Standing Advisory Committee

MMU Manchester Metropolitan University - formerly the polytechnic.

MMV Medicines for Malaria Venture

MND Motor Neurone Disease

MO Medical Officer

MOD Ministry of Defence

MOH Medical Officer of Health - a predecessor of the DPH

MOI Mechanism Of Injury

MOR Millennium Operating Regime

mp melting point

MP Member of Parliament

or Market Price

MPA Medical Prescribing Adviser

or Masters in Public Administration

MPC Medical Practices Committee (abolished 2002)

MPDS Medical Priority Dispatch System

MPET Multi-Professional Education and Training levy

MPH Master of Public Health

MPharm Master of Pharmacy

MPhil Master of Philosophy

MPIG minimum practice income guarantee

MPS Modernising Public Services Group

or Medical Protection Society

MPT Maximum Part Time

MPU Medical Practitioners Union - radical doctors' union - small medical section of Unite

MRC Medical Research Council

MRCA Member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists

MRCGP Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners

MRCO Member of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists

MRCOG Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

MRCP Member of the Royal College of Physicians

MRCPath Member of the Royal College of Pathologists

MRCPCH Member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

MRCPsych Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

MRCR Member of the Royal College of Radiologists

MRCS Member of the Royal College of Surgeons

MREC Multicentre Research Ethics Committee

MRFIT Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial

MRHDOC Melton Rutland and Harborough GP co-operative

MRHF Manchester Race and Health Forum

MRI Manchester Royal Infirmary

or Magnetic Resonance Imaging - a scanning technology

mRNA Messenger RNA

MRO Medical Records Officer

MRP Minimum Revenue Provision (part of capital control framework)

MRPSG Metropolitan Railways Passenger Services Grant

MRSA Methycillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus. A bug which resists antibiotics and breeds in hospitals

MRSC Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

MS Multiple Sclerosis

or Manuscript

or Morphine Sulphate

MSAC Maternity Services Advisory Committee

MSc Master of Science

MSD Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd

MSDS Material Safety Data Sheet

MSF Union for skilled and professional workers, including many NHS employees. Formerly ASTMS. Now part of AMICUS

or Medicine Sans Frontiers

MSGP-4 National Study of Morbidity in General Practice

MSH melanophonre-stimulating hormone

MSHHF Moss Side & Hulme Health Forum

MSI Marie Stopes International

MSK Musculoskeletal

MSLC Maternity Services Liaison Committee brings together professions involved in maternity services with lay people to agree procedures and monitor their effectiveness as they appear to individual women.

MSM men who have sex with men

MSOTW Man Slumped Over The Wheel

MSP Member of the Scottish Parliament

MSPCG Most Sparsely Populated Councils Group of the Local Government Association

MSS Manchester Social Services

MSSU Midstream Specimen of Urine

MSU Medium Secure unit or short for MSSU

MTA Management Team Assistant

or Message Transfer Agent (part of an email system)

MTB Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

MTFP Medium Term Financial Plan

MTO Medical Technical Officer

MUSCLE Multi-Station Clinical Examination

MV Millennium Volunteer

MVDP Makatan Vocabulary Development Project

MVI Malaria Vaccine Initiative

MWC Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland

MWEP Medical Workforce Expansion Programme

MWSAC Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee

MWSAG Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Group

MYS Manchester Youth Service

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N Normal

or Nocte - at night

N & N Norfolk and Norwich

NA Nursing Auxiliary

NAB National Assistance Board (1948-1966)

NAC National Abortion Campaign

NACAB National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux

NACC National Association for Colitis and Crohn's Disease

NACEPD National Advisory Council on Employment of People with Disabilities (obs)

NACGP National Association of Commisioning General Practitioners

NACPME National Advice Centre for Postgraduate Education

NACRO National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders

NACT National Association of Clinical Tutors

NACVS National Association of Councils for Voluntary Service

NAD Nothing Abnormal Detected, or perhaps Not Actually Done

or No Apparent Distress

NAFHP National Association of Fundholding Practices (obs)

NAGPT National Association of General Practice Tutors

NAGS NICE Appraisal Groups

NAHAT National Association of Hospital Authorities and Trusts (obs)

NAHT National Association of Head Teachers

NAHWT National Association of Health Workers and Travellers

NAI Non accidental injury

NANOS North American Neuro-Opthalmology Society

NANP National Association of Non-Principals (now NASGP)

NANT National Appraisal of New Technologies

NAO National Audit Office

NAPC National Association of Primary Care formed from dying embers of Fundholding National Association to represent interests of PCGs

NAPMECA National Association of Postgraduate Medical Education Centre Administration

NAPP National Association for Patient Participation

NAPS National Anti-Poverty Strategy (Ireland)

NAS National Autistic Society

NASEN National Association for Special Educational Needs

NASGP National Association of Sessional GPs

NASS National Asylum Support Service

NASUWT National Association of School-teachers / Union of Women Teachers

NATN National Association of Theatre Nurses

or National Association of Training Nurses

NatPaCT National Primary and Care Trust development programme

NAVB National Association of Volunteer Bureaux

NAVHO National Association of Voluntary Help Organisations

NAWO National Alliance of Women's Organisations

NB Nota bene - note well

NBA National Blood Authority

NBAP National Booked Admissions Programme

NBFI Not Bad For Ilkeston

NBG Lacking evidence of effectiveness

NBI National Beds Inquiry

NBS National Board for nursing, midwifery and health visiting for Scotland (obs)

NBTS National Blood Transfusion Service (obs)

NBV Net Book Value

NC Nasal Cannula

NCAA National Clinical Assessment Authority

NCBV National Coalition for Black Volunteering

NCC National Consumer Council

NCCA National Centre for Clinical Audit. Now absorbed into NICE

or National Community Care Alliance

NCCHTA National Co-ordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment

NCCG Non-Consultant Career Grade

NCCSDO National Co-ordinating Centre for NHS Service Delivery and Organisation Research and Development at the London School of Hygience and Tropical Medicine

NCE Net Current Expenditure

NCEPOD National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death

NCH National Children’s Home - Action For Children

NCI National Captioning Institute

NCIL National Centre for Independent Living

NCIS National Criminal Intelligence Service

NCEPOD Confidential Enquiry into Peri-operative Deaths. An enquiry into surgical disasters or possibly National Commission for Encouraging Patients to be Odd and Difficult

NCL National Civic League

NCMO National Case Mix Office

NCR New Commitment to Regeneration

NCS National Crime Squad

NCSC National Care Standards Commission (abolished 2004)

NCSL National College for School Leadership

NCT National Childbirth Trust. A powerful women's organisation.

NCV National Centre for Volunteering (obs)

NCVCCO National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations

NCVO National Council of Voluntary Organisations

NCVYS National Council for Voluntary Youth Services

ND New Deal

NDC National Disability Council

or New Deal for Communities

NDPB Non-Departmental Public Body

NDU Nurse Development Unit

NDPHS National Disabled Persons Housing Service

NDR Non-Domestic Rates (alternative name for business rates)

NDS New Deal for Schools

NDTMS National drug treatment monitoring system

NDYP New Deal for Young People

NEAS North East Ambulance Service

NEAT New and Emerging Applications of Technologies

NEC Cecrotising Enterocolitis

NED Non-Executive Director

NEET Not in Education Employment of Training

NEF New Economics Foundation

NEFA nonesterified fatty acids

NEJM New England Journal of Medicine

NELH National Electronic Library for Health

NERC Natural Environment Research Council

NES New Earnings Survey

NESTA National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts

NF Neurofibromatosis Hereditary neurological condition

or Nuffield Foundation

NFHA National Federation of Housing Associations (obs)

NFN Normal for Norfolk. This is a legendary acronym, and any sightings in the wild should be reported to me.

NFP Not for Profit

NFR Not for resuscitation

NFW No further work

NG Naso Gastric

NGfL National Grid for Learning (obs)

NGO Non Governmental Organisation

NHAIS National Health Authority Information Systems

NHD Notional Half Day

NHFA Nursing Homes Fees Agency a division of SB Tyler Clark, regulated by the Personal Investment Authority for investment
business

NHIH No Hope in Hell

NHL Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma

NHLI National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College

NHS National Health Service

NHS(S) National Health Service in Scotland

NHSAR National Health Service Administrative Register

NHSBSA NHS Business Services Authority

NHSBSP NHS Breast Screening Programme

NHSCA NHS Consultants Association

NHSCCC National Health Service Centre for Coding and Classification (obs)

NHSCR National Health Service Central Register

NHSE NHS Executive (abolished 2002)

NHSEED National Health Service Economic Evaluation Database

NHSEHU National Health Service Ethical Health Unit

NHSIA NHS Information Agency (abolished 2005)

NHSIMC National Health Service Information Centre

NHSL NHS Logistics

NHSLA National Health Service Litigation Authority

NHSME NHS Management Executive now called the NHSE, because we no longer believe in management.

NHSnet Intranet for the NHS

NHSP NHS Partners

NHSS National Health Service Supplies

or National Healthy Schools Standard

NHST National Health Service Trust

NHSTD National Health Service Training Directorate

NHSTF National Health Service Trust Federation

NHSTU National Health Service Training Unit

NHSU National Health Service University (obs)

NI National Insurance

NIACE National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education

NIAS Northern Ireland Ambulance Service

NIC Net Ingredient Cost. The basic price of a drug.

or National Insurance Contribution

NICARE Northern Ireland Centre for Health Care Co-operation and Development

NICE National Institute for Clinical Excellence

or Northern Institute for Continuing Education

NICEC National Institute for Carers and Educational Counselling

NICON NHS Confederation in Northern Ireland

NICS Northern Ireland Civil Service

NICU Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

NICVA Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action

NIH National Institute of Health

or Nuffield Institute for Health

NILO National Investment & Loans Office

NIMHE National Institute for Mental Health in England

NINo National Insurance Number

NIP Neighbourhood Improvement Programme (part of SRB6)

NIPPV Non Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation

NISS National Information on Software and Services now moved to HERO

NISW National Institute of Social Work (obs)

NJ Naso-Jejunal

NJC National Joint Council

NK Natural Killer (of cells)

NKDA No Known Drug Allergies

NLC National Lottery Commission

NLCB National Lottery Charities Board

NLIS National Land Information Service

NLM National Library of Medicine

NMAC National Medical Advisory Committee (obs)

NMC Nursing and Midwifery Council

NMET Non Medical Education and Training

NMGH North Manchester General Hospital

NMIS Nurse Management Information System

NMI Neuromuscular Impairment

NMS National Minimum Standards

NMSS Non Maintained Special School

NMW National Minimum Wage

NNDR National Non-Domestic Rates

NNT Number Needed to Treat

NOF National Opportunities Fund

NOAH National Office of Animal Health

NOCN National Open College Network

NOF New Opportunities Fund

NOMIS National Online Manpower Information Service

NOP National Opinion Polls

or Notification of Practice

NOS No other symptoms

or National Occupation Standards

NP National Park

NPA National Pharmaceutical Association

or Nasopharyngeal Airway

or National Park Authority

NPAT National Patients' Access Team

NPC National Prescribing Centre - based in Liverpool. Formerly known as MASC. Aims to promote high quality cost effective prescribing. Supports Health Authority professional advisers and practice support pharmacists by providing educational activities including therapeutics workshop. Published MeReC Bulletin which is distributed to all GPs on request.

or Net Present Cost

NPCRDC National Primary Care Research and Development Centre - based in the University of Manchester

NPFIT National Programme for IT in the NHS

NPG Modernising Health and Social Services: National Priorities Guidance HSC 1998/159

NPHT Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust (obs)

NPL National Physical Laboratory

NPO Nil Per Os (Nothing by mouth)

NPSA National Patient Safety Agency

NPT Near Patient Testing

NPV Net Present Value

NRB Non-ReBreathing

NRC National Regionalisation Consortium

NRCI National Reference Cost Index

NRE Non-Recurring Expenditure

NRF Neighbourhood Renewal Fund

NRPB National Radiological Protection Board

NRR National Research Register

NRS Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy

NRT Nicotine replacement therapy

NRU Neighbourhood Renewal Unit

NS Normal Saline

NSAID Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drug

NSCAG National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group

NSEC National Smoking Education Campaign

NSF National Service Framework

or National Schizophrenia Fellowship (now called Rethink)

NSFMH National Service Framework - Mental Health

NSMI National Sports Medicine Institute UK

NSNR National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal

NSPCC National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

NSR Normal Sinus Rhythm

NSRC National Schedule of Reference Costs

NSU Non-specific Urethritis. Common STD

NSUG North Staffs Users Group

NSV National Supplies Vocabulary

NTA National Treatment Agency

NTDC New Town Development Corporation

NTG NiTroGylcerin

NTN National Training Number

NTO National Training Organisation

NTT Nuchal Translucency Thickness screening method for Down's sydrome

NTTRL National Tissue Typing Reference Laboratory

NUT National Union of Teachers

NUTS Nomenclature of Territorial Units

NVP Newly Vulnerable Person

NVQ National Vocational Qualification

NWCS Nation Wide Clearing Service.

NWDA North West Development Agency

NWIPP National Workforce Information and Planning Programme

NWMHDC North West Mental Health Development Council

NWPHO North West Public Health Observatory

NWRO North West Regional Office

NWU Neighbourhood Wardens Unit

NWRRL North West Regional Research Laboratory

NWSI Nurse with a Special Interest

NYA National Youth Agency

NYCDOHMH New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygene

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O2 Oxygen

O-sign unresponsive person with mouth open and tongue still in mouth

OATs Out of Area Treatments - payments to trusts for care for patients from more distant areas. Replaced ECRs.

OBC Outline Business Case - Spells out the business case in terms of functional need, anticipated costs and benefits, benefits realisation plan, risk management strategy etc.

OBD Occupied Bed Day

OBS - Output Based Specification - spells out the detailed functional requirements in terms of what a proposed system is required to deliver

OCD obsessive compulsive disorder

OCN Open College Network

OCPA Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments

OCR Optical Character Reader.

OCS Organisational Codes Service

OD Organisational Development

or overdose

or Once Daily

or outside diameter

or Right eye

ODA Operating department assistant

or Overseas Doctors Agency

ODPM Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

ODTS Overseas Doctors Training Scheme

ODO Operating Department orderly

OE On Examination

OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OEH Oxford Eye Hospital

OEL Occupational Exposure Limit

OFSTED Office for Standards in Education

OFT Office of Fair Trading

OGC Office of Government Commerce

OHAG Oral Health Advisory Group

OHE Office of Health Economics

OHN Our Healthier Nation Cm3852

OHP Overhead Projector

OHS Occupational Health Service

OIC Officer in Charge

OIE Office International des Epizooties

OIHCP Office for Information on Health Care Performance

OISC Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner

OJEC Official Journal of the European Community

om Omni mane - every morning

OMNI. Organising Medical Networked Information

OMP Ophthalmic Medical Practitioner

OMV Open Market Value

OMVEU Open Market Value in Existing Use

on omni nocte - every night

ONS Office for National Statistics The result of a merger in April 1996 of the Central Statistical Office and the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.

OOH Out of Hours

OP Out-Patient

OPA Oropharyngeal Airway

OPAC Online Public Access Catalogue

OPCS Office of Population Census and Surveys Now ONS.

OPD Out Patient Department

OPHIS Office for Public Health In Scotland

OPM Office for Public Management

OR Operation Research

os Occuli Sinistrus (Left Eye)

OS Ordnance Survey

OSB Other Services Block (now replaced by EPCS)

OSC Overview and Scrutiny Committee

OSCE Observed Structured Clinical Examination

OSDLS Open Source Digital Library System

OST Office of Science and Technology

OT Occupational Therapy

OTC over the counter (medicines not requiring a prescription)

ou Right Eye

OU Open University

or Both eyes

OVE Occlusive Vascular Event

OWAM Organisation with a Memory

OWW One World Week


OXERA Oxford Economic Research Associates

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P A pharmacy medicine

Pa Pascal

PA Police Authority

or Personal Assistant

PAC Public Accounts Committee

PACE Property Advisers to the Civil Estate

or Promoting Action on Clinical Effectiveness

or Police & Criminal Evidence Act 1984

PACS Picture Archiving and Communication System - a replacement for X-ray film

PACT Prescribing Analysis & Costs - GPs get regular PACT reports from the PPA giving details of their recent prescribing, comparing them with local and national averages.

or Placing, Assessment and Counselling Team

PAD Perpheral Arterial Disease

PAF Performance Assessment Framework

or Public Audit Forum

PAFO Pissed And Fell Over

PAGB Proprietary Association of Great Britain

PALS Patient Advice and Liaison Service

PAMIS Parliamentary Monitoring & Intelligence Service

PAMP Pathogen Associated Molecular Pattern

PAMs Professions Allied to Medicine - e.g. physiotherapists, OTs etc.

PAR Programme Analysis & Review

PAS Patient Administration System. A main hospital database

PASA Purchasing and Supply Agency

PASG Pneumatic Anti-Shock Garment

PAT Paroxysmal Atrial Tachycardia

or Personnel Accountability Tag

or Professional Association of Teachers

or Policy Action Team

PAYE Pay as you Earn

PBC Public Benefit Corporation

or Practice Based Commissioning

PBL Problem Based Learning

PBR Pre-Budget Report

or Payment By Results

PBRS Public Benefit Recording System

PBx Private Branch Exchange (type of internal telephone network)

PC Primary care

or personal computer

or politically correct

or post cibos - after meals

or Parish Council

or Public Convenience or

Patients' Council

PCA Patient controlled analgesia - usually a morphine pump

PCAG Primary Care Audit Group

PCAP Primary Care Act Pilot - the NHS (primary care) Act 1997 allows NHS Trusts, NHS employees, qualified bodies and suitably experienced medical practitioners to submit proposals to provide general medical services under a contract with the health authority.

PCG Primary Care Group (obs) See HSC 1998/230.

or phonocardiogram

PCHR Personal Child Health Record

PCIP Primary Care Investment Plan

PCL Provision for Credit Liabilities

PCMCN Peninsula Cardiac Managed Clinical Network

PCO Primary Care Organisations

PCP Personal Communication Profile

or Person Centred Planning

PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction

PCRC Primary Care Resource Centre

PCRG Policing & Crime Reduction Group (part of the Home Office)

PCS public and commercial services union


PCT Primary Care Trust

PCV packed cell volume

PDC Public Dividend Capital

PDD Prescribed Daily Dose - the average daily dose which is actually prescribed

or Pervasive Development Disorder

PDFPortable Document Format. A way of publishing electronically which preserves printed formatting information. Needs Adobe Acrobat to view

or Partnership Development Fund

PDO Property Damage Only

PDP Practice Development Plan

or Personal Development Plan

PDR Personal Development Review

PDS Primary Dental Service

or Parkinson's Disease Society

PDSA Plan Do Study Act

PE Physical Examination

or Pulmonary Embolism

PEA Pulseless Electrical Activity

PEARL Pupils Equal And Reactive to Light

PEAT Patient Environment Action Team

PEC PCT Professional Executive Committee

PECS Picture Exchange Communication System

PEDC Potential Elderly Domiciliary Clients (part of SSA)

PEFR Peak Expiry Flow Rate

PEG Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy

PERL Pupils Equal and Reactive to Light

PERT Pontefract Emergency Response Team

PES Public Expenditure Survey

PESC Public Expenditure Survey Committee (obs)

PESR Potential Elderly Supported Residents (part of SSA)

PET Positron Emission Tomography

PETA People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

PETS paediatric emergency transfer service

PF Patients' Forum

PFC Patient Focused Care

PFI Private Finance Initiative. A form of leasing where public authorities pay lease charges for buildings and services over 25 or 30 years rather than borrowing money to pay for the building. Now replaced by PPP, which is entirely different and much better according to HMG.

PFMA Practice Fund Management Allowance - Allowance given to GP fundholders to manage their allocation. The allowance is primarily spent upon staff and equipment.

PFU Private Finance Unit

PGCME Postgraduate and Continuing Medical Education

PGD Postgraduate Dean

or Patient Group Directions

PGEA Postgraduate Education Allowance

PGMDE Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education

pH a measure of acidity or alkalinity

PHA Public Health Alliance Now part of UKPHA

PHAB Physically Disabled and Able-Bodied

PHANYC Public Health Association of New York City

PHC Primary Health Care

PHCT Primary Health Care Team

PHCSG Primary Health Care Specialist Group of the British Computer Society

PhD Philosophiae Doctor (Doctor of Philosophy)

PHeL Public Health Electronic Library

PHIS Public Health Institute of Scotland (obs)

PHL Public Health Laboratory

PHLS Public Health Laboratory Service

PHO Public Health Observatory

PHP Public Health Practitioner

PHPU Public Health Policy Unit

PHRRC Public Health Research and Resource Centre at the University of Salford

PHSS Personal Health Summary System

PHTLS Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support

PI Performance Indicator

or Parallel Imports

PIA Partnership In Action

or Personal Injury Accident

or Pain in the Ass

or Patient Impact Assessment

PICS Platform for Internet Content Selection

PICU Paediatric or Psychiatric ICU

PID Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

or Prolapsed Intervertebral Disc - Slipped disc

PIDA Public Interest Disclosure Act

PIG Policy Implementation Groups

or Promoting Independence Grant

or Professional Interest Group

PIL Patient Information Leaflet

PIN Personal identification number

or Prior Identification Notice

PITA Pain In The ass

PIU Performance and Innovation Unit

PLA Pre School Learning Alliance

PLAB Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board

PLP Personal Learning Plan

PLPI Product Licence Parallel Import

PLT Protected Learning Time

PMA Personal Medical Attendant. What insurance companies and the like call the doctor who writes a report for them.

PMD Prescribing Monitoring Document

PMETB Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board

PMF Performance Management Framework

PMI Private Medical Insurance

PMLD Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities

PMN Polymorphonuclear Neutrophil

PMR Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

or progressive muscle relaxation

PMS Primary Medical Services

PMSG pregnant mare's serum gonadotrophin

PN percussion note - part of the examination of the chest

PND Paroxysmal Nocturnal Dyspnea

or Post Natal Depression

PNL Prior Notification List (of patients for screening)

PNS Peripheral Nervous System

PO Per oral - by mouth

POC Point Of Care

PODS Patient's Own Drugs

POETS Piss Off Early Tomorrow is Saturday

POINT Publications On the INTernet (Department of Health)

POISE Procurement Of Information Systems Effectively The standard procedure followed for procurement of Information systems

POLIS Parliamentary Online Indexing Service

POLST Physicians Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

POM Prescription Only Medicine

POPPS Partnerships for Older People Projects

POPUMET Protection of Persons Undergoing Medical Examination

POQ Piss off quick (Get out of a dangerous situation)

POSIX Portable Operating System Interface

POU Pulmonary Oncology Unit - Chest cancers

POVA Protection Of Vulnerable Adults from Abuse

PPA Prescription Pricing Authority - costs all prescriptions dispensed in England in order to pay chemists for the costs of the drugs etc. they dispense.

PPARC Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council

PPBS Planning, Programming & Budgeting System

PPD Prescription Pricing Division

PPDP Practice Professional Development Plans

PPDR Practice Profession Development and Revalidation

PPE Personal Protective Equipment

PPF Priorities and Planning Framework

PPG Principal Police Grant

or Planning Policy Guidance

PPI Proton Pump Inhibitor

or Patient and Public Involvement

PPIF Patient and Public Involvement Forum (obs)

PPM Planned Preventative Maintenance

PPO Preferred Provider Organisation

PPP Private Patients Plan

or Public Private Partnership

PPPP Public-Private Partnership Programme (aka 4Ps)

PPRS Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme

PPU Private patients unit

PQ Parliamentary Question

or Post Qualification

PQASSO Practical Quality Assurance System for Small Organisations

PR Per rectum

or Public relations (the connection is obvious really)

PRA Preventing and Responding to Aggression

PRATFO Patient Reassured and Told to Fuck Off

PRB Pay Review Body

PREP Post Registration Education and Practice

PREPP Post Registration Education and Preparation for Practice

PRHO Pre-Registration House Officer

PRIAE Policy Research Institute on Ageing & Ethnicity

PRIMIS Primary Care Information Services

PRINCE Projects in Controlled Environments - a standard project management methodology used in all NHS Information systems projects

PRN pro re nata - As required (of medication)

PRO Public Record Office

PRODIGY Prescribing RatiOnally with Decision-support In General-practice studY

PRP Performance Related Pay

PRT Personal Risk Training

PRU Police Resources Unit (part of Home Office)

PSA Prostate Specific Antigen

or Public Service Agreement

PSBR Public Sector Borrowing Requirement

PSC Public Sector Comparator

PSFD Public Sector Financing Deficit

PSG Prescribing Strategy Group

PSHE Personal Social And Health Education

PSI Policy Studies Institute

PSL Period of Study Leave

PSM Professions Supplementary to Medicine

PSNC Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee represents chemists in negotiations with the DOH

PSNCR Public Sector Net Cash Requirement

PSND Public Sector Net Deficit

PSRCS Police Standard Radio Communication System

PSS Personal Social Services

PSSRU Personal Social Services Research Unit

PSU Prescribing Support Unit

PSX Public Service Expenditure

PT Part Time

or Physiotherapy

Pt Patient

PTA Parent-Teachers Association

or Passenger Transport Authority

PTCA Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty - A balloon opening technique for opening partially blocked coronary arteries

PTE Passenger Transport Executive

PTS Patient transport service

PTSD Post Traumatic stress disorder

PU Prescribing Unit - developed to take account of elderly patients greater need for medication. Patients over 65 count as 3 PUs and those under 65 as one.

PV Per vagina

or Pemphigus Vulgaris

PVC Premature Ventricular Contraction

PVD Peripheral Vascular Disease

PVS Persistent Vegetative State

PW Pressurized Water fire extinguisher

PWC Price Waterhouse Coopers, a firm of accountants

PWLB Public Works Loans Board

PWSA Practitioner with Special Interest

Px Prescribing

PYE Part Year Effect

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Q-sign unresponsive person with mouth open and tongue hanging out

QA Quality Assurance

QAA Quality Assurance Authority

QALY Quality Adjusted Life Year

QC Quality Control

or Quick Connect

QCA Qualifications and Curriculum Authority

QDS Four Times Daily

qh quaque hora - every hour

ql quantim libet - as much as wanted

QMC Queen's Medical Centre

QNI Queen's Nursing Institute

QOF Quality and Outcomes Framework

QOL Quality of Life

QP Quality Protects Frank Dobson's castigation of local authorities for historically poor care to children and young people, and the tough PI - led regime designed to improve same

QR Quick Release

qs quantum sufficiat - a sufficient quantity

QSW Qualified Social Worker

qv quod vide Latin for look up the reference.

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R&D Research and Development

R&S Recruitment and Selection

RA Research Associate

or Revenue Account

or Regional Assembly

or Rheumatoid arthritis

RA(SG) Revenue Account (Specific Grants)

RADAR Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation

RADTZ Regional Assessment and Diagnostic Treatment Zone

RAE Research Assessment Exercise

RAGE Radiotherapy Action Group Exposure

RAM Risk Allocation Matrix

RAO Referral and Advice Officer - First point of contact for enquiries about Social Services. Advice and basic information is also provided.

RAP Recurrent Abdominal Pain

or Referrals, Assessments and Packages of Care in Adult Personal Social Services

RAPt Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust

RARM Remote and Rural Medicine

RASP Resource Allocation and Service Planning

RAWP Resource Allocation Working Party

RB Representative Body

RBC Red Blood Corpuscle

rbe relative biological effectiveness

RBMS Referral Booking and Management System

RCA Royal College of Anaesthetists

RCC Rural Community Council

RCCO Revenue Contributions to Capital Outlay

RCCS Revenue Consequences of Capital Schemes

or Reid Clinical Classification System

RCOG Royal College of Gynaecologists

RCGP Royal College of General Practitioners

RCH Residential Care Home

RCHT Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust

RCM Royal College of Midwives

RCN Royal College of Nursing - Union for nurses.

RCO Refugee Community Organisations

RCOG Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

RCOphth Royal College of Ophthalmologists

RCP Royal College of Physicians

RCPath Royal College of Pathologists

RCPCH Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

RCPE Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

RCPsych Royal College of Psychiatrists

RCR Royal College of Radiologists

RCS Royal College of Surgeons

RCSLT Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

RCT Randomised Control Trial

RCU Regional Co-ordination Unit

RDA Regional Development Agency

or Rural Development Area

RDBMS Relational Database Management System.

RDC Rural District Council (obsolete except in former UK colonies)

or Rural Development Commission

RDF Resource Description Framework

RDN Resource Discovery Network

RDPGPE Regional Director of Postgraduate General Practice Education

RDS Respiratory Distress Syndrome

RDSU Research and Development Support Unit

REA Regional Education Adviser

REACH Research and Education for Children in Asthma or

Retired Executives Action Clearing House

REAL Research, Education, Audit, Libraries

REC Racial Equality Council

REDG Regional Education Development Group

Reg Registrar

REH Royal Eye Hospital

or Royal Edinburgh Hospital

RES Regional Economic Strategy

RFA Requirements for Accreditation of GP Systems

RFA4 National Accreditation standard for computers

RFAG Rural Fire Authorities' Group

RFC Request for Comment

RFDS Royal Flying Doctor Service

RFID Radio Frequency Identification Technology

RG Registrar-General

RGB Red Green Blue

RGD Revenue Grants Distribution

RGD(RG) Revenue Grants Distribution (Review Group)

RGN Registered General Nurse

Rh Relative humidity

RHA Regional Health Authority (obsolete)

RHB Regional Hospital Board (obsolete)

RHV Registered Health Visitor

RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects

RICS Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors

RIDDOR Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations

RIF Right Iliac Fossa

rINN Recommended International Non-proprietary Name

RIPA Royal Institute of Public Administration

RIPHH Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene

RITA Record of In-Training Assessment

RIU Regulatory Impact Unit

RL Ringer's Lactate

RLAS Red Lights And Sirens

RLG NHS Regional Librarians Group

RLQ Right Lower Quadrant

RLS Restless Legs Syndrome (this is not a jest)

RMA Refuse[s] Medical Assistance

RMCH Royal Manchester Children's Hospital

RMN Registered Mental Nurse

RMO Resident Medical Officer

or Responsible Medical Officer

RNA ribonucleic acid

RNCC Registered Nursing Care Contribution

RNHRD Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases

RNIB Royal National Institute for the Blind

RNID Royal National Institute for Deaf People

RNLI Royal National Lifeboat Institution

RNMH Registered Nurse for the Mentally Handicapped

RNOH Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

RNTNE Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital

RO Regional Office

or Radio Officer

or Revenue Out-turn

ROC Return on Capital

or Retained Organs Commission (obs)

RoCE Return on Capital Employed

ROE Regional Office for Europe

ROM Range of Movement

ROS Return on Sale

ROSC Return of Spontaneous Circulation

ROSPA Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

ROT Rule Of Thumb

ROTA Race on the Agenda

RoW Rights of Way or

Rights of Women

RP Reporting Party

RPC Regional Planning Conference (often now part of Regional Assembly)

RPF renal plasma flow

or Rural Policing Fund

RPGD Regional Postgraduate Dean

RPHTF Regional Prison Health Task Force

RPI Retail Price Index

RPIx underlying Retail Price Index (ie, excluding domestic mortgage costs)

RPPG Regional Policy Planning Guidance

RPSGB Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

Rpt Repeat

RQ respiratory quotient

or Reportable Quantity

RR Relative Risk

RRMS Relaxing and Remitting Multiple Sclerosis

RS respiratory system

or Rescue Squad

RSA Royal Society for Arts

RSC Royal Society of Chemistry

RSCG Regional Specialised Commissioning Group

RSCN Registered Sick Children's Nurse

RSD Reflex Sympathetic Disorder

RSG Revenue Support Grant formerly Rate Support Grant

RSH Royal Society of Health

RSI Repetitive Strain Injury

or Rapid Sequence Induction

or Rough Sleepers Initiative

RSIN Rural Stress Information Network

RSL Registered Social Landlord - a Housing Association or similar

RSM Royal Society of Medicine

RSN Real Soon Now - when computer applications will be delivered.

RSP Rural Services Partnership

RSS Royal Statistical Society

RSU Regional Secure Unit - for people who are considered dangerously mentally ill

or Rough Sleepers Unit

RSV Respiratory Syncytial Virus

RSVP Retired and Senior Volunteers Programme

RSW Residential Social Work

RT Radiotherapy

or reaction time (in neurophysiology)

Rt Right

RTA Road Traffic Accident

RTF Regional Task Force

or Rich Text Format

RTIA Receipts Taken Into Account (part of capital control framework)

RTPI Royal Town Planning Institute

RUH Royal United Hospitals Bath

RUQ Right Upper quadrant (of the torso)

RVI Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle

RVSN Regional Voluntary Sector Network

Rx Prescription drugs

RxList Internet Drug Index

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S1-5 Bones in the base of the spine

S & P Scrape and Polish

S/S Signs and Symptoms

SABA Supplied Air Breathing Apparatus

SAC Specialist Advisory Committee (of the Royal Colleges). Oversee higher medical training.

SACN Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition

SAD Seasonal Affective Disorder

SAED SemiAutomatic External Defibrillator

SaFF See SFF

SAGNIS Strategic Advisory Group for Nursing Information Systems

SAHC Scottish Association of Health Councils

SALT Speech and Language Therapist

SAMH Scottish Association of Mental Health

SaO2 Oxygen SAturation

SAP Single Assessment Process

SAPHE Self Assessment in Professional and Higher Education 1996-9

SAR Search And Rescue

or Subjective Analysis Return

SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

SAT Service Action Team

SAZ Sport Action Zone

SBS Small Business Service

SBU Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care

SC Subcutaneous

SCA Supplementary Credit Approval (part of capital control framework)

SCAIS Sheffield Community Access Interpreting Service

SCBA Self Contained Breathing Apparatus

SCBU Special Care Baby Unit

SCCD Standing Conference on Community Development

SCD Sickle Cell Disease

SCEC Scottish Central Emergency Committee

SCF Safer Communities Fund

or Save the Children Fund

or Scottish Council Foundation

SCG Specialised Commissioning Group

ScHARR School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield

SCHIN Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics at Newcastle

SCID Severe Combined Immune Deficiency

SCIE Social Care Institute for Excellence

SCM Specialist in Community Medicine

SCMH Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health

SCMO Senior Clinical Medical Officer

SCODA Standing Conference on Drug Abuse

SCOPE Society for people with Cerebral Palsy

SCOPME The Standing Committee on Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education (obs)

SCP Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrists

or Single Capital Pot

or Spinal Column Point (position on pay-scale)

or Shared Care Protocol or

Short Course Programme

SCPMDE Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education

SCR Social Care Region

SCUBA Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

SCS Senior Civil Service

SCT Society of County Treasurers

SCVO Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations

SCVS CVS Scotland

SDA Severe Disability Allowance (obsolete)

or Service Delivery Agreement or

Sex Discrimination Act

SDCT Society of District Council Treasurers

SDI Shire Districts Initiative

SDO Service Delivery Organisation

SDP Sub-Divisional Partnership

or Severe Disability Premium

SEA Significant Event Audit

Seac Spongiform Encephalopathy Committee. Advises HMG on BSE

SEACAG South East Ambulance Clinical Audit Group

SEC Specialist Education Committee

SEG Socio-Economic Group

SEMI Severe and Enduring Mental Illness

SEN Special Educational Needs

or State Enrolled Nurse

SEO Society of Education Officers

SERNIP Safety and Efficiency Register of New Interventional Procedures run by the Medical Royal Colleges

SERPS State Earnings Related Pension Scheme

SEU Social Exclusion Unit

or Sentence Enforcement Unit

SFA Statement of Fees and Allowances - The GP's Red Book

SFDF Scottish Food and Drink Federation

SFF Service & Finance Framework - An annual document setting out in detail the commissioning intentions for the following year (1st April - 31st March).

SFI Standing Financial Instructions - Financial procedures and framework for the Health Authority

or Social Fund Inspector

SFM Simple Face Mask

SG1 (2..3) Sector Group 1 etc. (part of CLP covering best value)

SGHT Standing Group on Health Technology (obs)

SGML Standard Generalised Markup Language

SGPC Scottish General Practitioners Committee - part of the BMA

SGR Scientists for Global Responsibility

SGUMDER Standing Group on Undergraduate Medical and Dental Education and Research

SHA Socialist Health Association

or Special Health Authority

or Strategic Health Authority

SHAPE Strategic Health Asset Planning and Evaluation

SHARE Scottish Health Authorities Revenue Equalisation

SHAS Scottish Health Advisory Service (obs)

SHEPS Society of Health Education and Health Promotion Specialists

SHIFT Substitution of Hospital and other Institutional-focused Technology

SHMO Senior Hospital Medical Officer

SHO Senior House Officer

SHOT Serious Hazards of Transfusion

SHOW Scottish Health on the Web

SHRINE Strategic Human Resources Information Network

SHTAC Scottish Centre for Technology Assessment in Health Care

SI Statutory Instrument

SIA Spinal Injuries Association

SIDS Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

SIFT Service Increment for Teaching - cash to hospitals for training medical students

SIFTR Service Increment for Teaching and Research

SIG Special Interest Group

SIGN Scottish Inter-Collegiate Guidelines Network

SIGOMA Special Interest Group of Metropolitan Authorities outside London

SIMS Standardized Incident Management System

SING Sexuality Issues Network Group

SIS Supplies Information Service

or Statistical Information Service (run by IPF)

SITF Social Investment Task Force

Sitrep Situation Reports

SIV Simian Immunodeficiency Virus

SL Sub Lingual (under your tongue)

SLA Service Level Agreement

SLAM South London and Maudsley NHS Trust

SLE systemic lupus erythematosus

Slr Straight Leg Raising

SLS Selected List Scheme for drugs which are restricted to particular conditions

SLT Society of London authority Treasurers

SLUD Salivation, Lacrimation, Urination, Defecation

SMA Spinal Muscular Atrophy

SMAC Standing Medical Advisory Committee

SMART Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timed (of objectives)

SME Small and Medium Sized Enterprise

SMI Severe Mental Impairment. People with SMI do not have to pay Council Tax

SMO Senior Medical Officer

SMP Statutory Maternity Pay

SMR Standardised Mortality Ratio

or Standardised Morbidity Ratio

SMT Society of Municipal Treasurers

SMTP Simple Message Transfer Protocol

SMUG South Manchester User Group - a group of users of mental health services

SMUHT South Manchester University Hospital Trust

SN Staff Nurse

SNAFU Situation Normal, All Fucked Up

SNMAC Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee

SNOMED Systematized Nomenclature of Human Medicine

SNP Single Nucleotide Polymorphism - a marker of genetic difference

or Scottish Nationalist Party

SNTN Scottish National Training Number

SO Standing Orders

SOAP Shipley Opthalmic Assessment Service

sob Short of Breath

SOBOE Short Of Breath On Exertion

SOC Strategic Outline Case - spells out the business and IT environment and local development plans within which a planned system will operate. Followed by the FBC.

SOCITM SOCiety of Information Technology Managers

SOCO Scene Of Crime Officer (police)

SODoH Scottish Department of Health (obs)

SOHHD Scottish Home Office and Health Department - obsolete

SOLACE Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers

SON Statement of Need

SOP Standard Operational Procedure

SORP Statement Of Recommended [accounting] Practice

sos si opus sit - if necessary

SoS Secretary of State

SOSIG Social Science Information Gateway

SOVA Society of Voluntary Associates (associated with Probation)

SP Strategic Plan

SPA Scottish Prescribing Analysis

SPAIN Social Policy Ageing Information Network

SPC Summary of Product Characteristics

SPIN Sandwell Public Information Network

SpR Specialist registrar

SPS Standard Payroll System

SPT Skin Prick Test

SPRITE Specialist Psychiatric Resource and Intervention Team. Work with dementia in North Manchester

SPV Special Purpose Vehicle

SQ Subcutaneous

SQL Structure Query Language

SQP Suitably Qualified Person

SR Senior registrar

or Society of Radiographers

or Spending Review

Sr Sister

SRB Single Regeneration Budget - replaced Urban Aid

SRD State Registered Dietician

SRE Sex and relationship Education

SRSAG Supra Regional Services Advisory group

SS Sure Start

SSA Standard Spending Assessment

SSAP Statement of Standard Accounting Practice (now being replaced by FRS)

SSARG Standard Spending Assessment Reduction Grant

SSAT Social Security Appeal Tribunal

SSC Shared Services Centre or

Sector Skills Council

SSCF Safer and Stronger Communities Fund

SSD Social Services Department

SSDP Strategic Service Development Plan

SSE School for Social Entrepreneurs

SSFA School Standards & Framework Act 1998

SSHA Society of Sexual Health Advisers

SSI Social Services Inspectorate Transferred to Commission for Social Care Inspection April 2004

or Standard Spending Indicator (part of SSA)

SSIP Strategic Service Implementation Plan,

SSIS Social Services Information System - A computerised system in all Manchester Social Services offices providing data on referral and assessment

SSM Special Study Module

or System Status Management

SSP Statutory Sick Pay

or Scottish Socialist Party or

Sub-regional Strategic Partnership

SSR Service Strategy & Regulation

SSRADU Social Services Research & Development Unit (obs)

SSRG Social Services Research Group

SSRI Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitor - Prozac and the like

SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest

ST Sinus Tachycardia

STA Specialist Training Authority

STAG School Travel Advisory Group

STAR Short Term Assessment and Rehabilitation Team Social Services teams which provide up to four weeks of care for people leaving hospital and residential homes and returning home

STAR-PU Specific Therapeutic Group Age-Sex Related Prescribing Unit. A very sophisticated PU, based on cost within a therapeutic group.

StBOP Shifting the Balance of Power

STC Speciality Training Committee

STD Sexually transmitted disease

STE Standard Tax Element

STEIS Strategic Executive Information System

STEP Standards Enforcement in Procurement A set of technical standards which IT systems should adhere to if they are to 'talk' to each other

STG Special Transitional Grant - Department of Health money given to Social Services to change to Community Care (now defunct)

STHCT South Tyneside Health Care Trust

StHA Strategic Health Authority

STI Sexually Transmitted Infection

StN Student nurse

STPCT South Tyneside Primary Care Trust

STSS Short Term Support Services - Planned residential respite care for people with learning disabilities.

STTR Speech to Text Reporter

STUFF Stockport User Friendly Forum

SU Strategy Unit (Cabinet Office)

or Students Union

SUI Serious Untoward Incident

SURE Service User Research Enterprise

SURF Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures

SVT Supra-Ventricular Tachycardia

SWAG Specialist Workforce Advisory Group

SWG Speciality Working Group

or Settlement Working Group

or Service Working Group

SWOT Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats

Sx Symptoms

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T&O Trauma and Orthopaedics

T&R Treat and Release

T1-12 Bones in the thoracic spine (upper back)

TACFIG Town And Country Issues Financial Issues Group

TALOBIA There's a lot of it about

TAP Trainee Assistant Practitioner

TATT Tired All the Time

TB Tuberculosis

TBA To Be Announced or Arranged

TBF Total Body Failure

TBG Thyroxine binding globulin capacity

TC Town Council

or Total Communication

TCA trichloroacetic acid

or TriCyclic Antidepressants

TCBL Temporary Capital Borrowing Limit (part of capital control framework)

TCI To Come In

TCP Total Commissioning Project

TCP/IP Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TD Teachta Dála" which in English means "Deputy to the Dáil"

TDHC The Doctors Healthcare Company

TDS ter die sumendum - Three Times Daily

TEACCH Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related Communication Handicapped Children

TEC Training and Enterprise Council (now abolished)

TEETH tried everything else, try homoeopathy

TEL Trust Executive Letter

TELCO The East London Communities Organisation

TENS transcutaneous electro-nerve stimulator An electronic pain relief machine

TENYAS Tees, East and North Yorkshire Ambulance Service

TERN Trans European Road Network

TFT Thin Film Display

TGF Transforming Growth Factor

TIA Transient Ischaemic Attack

or Traffic Impact Assessment

TICK Teamwork, Integrity, Courage, Knowledge

TICS Trafford Integrated Care Services

TID Three Times Daily

TIE theatre in education

TIS Technical Information Services

TKO To Keep Open

TLA Three letter acronym like this one

TLC Tender loving care - what you need when the doctors have finished with you.

TLD Top Level Domain

TME Trust Management Executive

TMJ TemporoMandibular Joints Disorder

TM Tympanic Membrane

TMB Too Many Birthdays

TME Total Managed Expenditure

TMO Tenant Management Organisation

TNA Training Needs Analysis

TNF Tumour Necrosis Factor

TOIL Time Off In Lieu

TOP Termination of pregnancy

or Topically

TOPRA The Organisation for Professionals in Regulatory Affairs

TOPS Termination of Pregnancy Service

TOPSS Training Organisation for Personal Social Services

TPAS Tenants Participation Advisory Service

TPC Teenage Pregnancy Co-ordinator

TPD Training Programme Director

TPE Therapeutic Plasma Exchange

TPP Total Purchasing Project

or Transport Policies & Programmes

TPQ Threshold Planning Quanity

TPR Temperature, Pulse, Respirations

TPU Teenage Pregnancy Unit

TQM Total Quality Management

TR Technical Release (term used by Audit Commission)

TRALI Transfusion related Acute Lung Injury

TRBL Temporary Revenue Borrowing Limit (part of capital control framework)

TRiP Turning Research into Practice

TRIPS Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights

TRO Time Ran Out

TSC Technical Sub-Committee

TSG Transport Supplementary Grant

TSH Thyroid Stimulating Hormone

TSO The Stationery Office (formerly Her Majesty's Stationery Office)

TSP Training Support Programme

TSS Total Standard Spending

TSST Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin

TSSU Theatre Sterile Supplies Unit

TTA Teacher Training Agency

TTFO Told to Fuck Off

TTO To take home - 5 days supply of medication

TTP Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

TTPO Tone Temperature and Pulse OK

or Told to Piss Off

TUBE Totally Unnecessary Breast Examination

TUC Trades Union Congress

TUPE Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981

TV Transfer Value

TVF Team, Vision, Future

TWES Training and Work Experience Scheme

TWG Technical Working Group

TWOC Trial WithOut Catheter. A patient who has been catheterised because he or she (but usually he) cannot pass urine, has the catheter taken out to see if he can remember how. If not, then he usually has an appointment with the apple corer.

or Taking Without Consent (of cars)

Tx Treatment

Txp Transport

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U&E Urea & Electrolytes - blood test

UA Unitary Authority - a Council which carries out all the functions in its area

UASC Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children

UASSG Unlinked Anonymous Surveys Steering Group

UB Unemployment Benefit (now JSA)

UBHT United Bristol Healthcare Trust

UBR Uniform Business Rate (alternative name for NNDR)

UCAS Universities College Admission Service

UCC University College Cork

UCL University College London

UDC Urban District Council (obsolete except in Ireland) now replaced by MBCs

or Urban Development Corporation

UEL Upper Explosive Limit

UEMS EUROPEAN UNION OF MEDICAL SPECIALISTS

UfI University for Industry

UGM Unit General Manager

UHB University Hospitals Birmingham

UHF Ultra High Frequency

UKADCU UK Anti-Drugs Co-ordination Unit (formerly Drugs Co-ordination Unit)

UKAN United Kingdom Advocacy Network

UKCC United Kingdom Central Council (abolished 2002)

UKDIPG United Kingdom Drug Information Pharmacists Group

UKHFAN United Kingdom Health for All Network

UKOLN The UK Office for Library and Information Networking

UKPHA United Kingdom Public Health Alliance

UKTSSA United Kingdom Transplant Support Service Authority

ULC Unit Labour Cost - Staff cost required to provide a given unit of activity.

ULF Union Learning Fund

ULTRA Unrelated Live Transplant Regulatory Authority

UMIST University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (obs)

UMLS Unified Medical Language System

UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund

UNISON Trades Union for public sector workers, incorporating COHSE, NALGO and NUPE

UPA Underpriviledged Area - a measure of deprivation. 0 is the mean for England

URC Urban Regeneration Company

or United Reform Church

URL Uniform Resource Locator

URTI Upper Respiratory Tract Infection

US Ultra sound

UTD Unit Training Director

UTF Urban Task Force

UTG Unified Training Grade

UTH University Teaching Hospital

UTI Urinary Tract Infection

UV ultra violet

or Ultra Vires

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VA Voluntary Action

or Voluntary-Aided

or Vote Account

VAM Voluntary Action Manchester - gives advice, support and information for voluntary and community groups in Manchester.

VAMP A GP Information system supplier User group

VAT Value Added Tax

VB Volunteer Bureau

VBAC vaginal birth after caesarean

VC Voluntary-Controlled

or Variable Cost

VCO(s) Voluntary and Community Organisation(s)

VCS Voluntary and Community Sector

VCT Voluntary Competitive Tendering

VD Venereal disease - now usually called STD

VDU Visual Display Unit

VESA Video Electronic Standard Association

VF Ventricular Fibrillation

VFM Value for Money

VHF Very High Frequency

VHI Voluntary Health Insurance (Ireland)

VMA vanilmandelic acid

VOCOSE Voluntary, Community and Social Economy

VPB Ventricular Premature Beat

VPC Ventricular Premature Contraction

VPE Virtual Private Exchange (type of internal telephone network)

VRSA Vancomycin-resistant staphylococcus aureus

VSA Vital Signs Absent

VSC Voluntary Service Co-ordinator

VSNTO Voluntary Sector National Training Organisation

VSO Voluntary Sector Option (New Deal)

or Voluntary Service Overseas

VSPG Voluntary Sector Policy and Grants

VTN Visiting Training Number

VTR Vocational Training Record

VTS Vocational Training Scheme

VV Varicose Veins

VZV Varicella-Zoster Virus

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WAA Working Age Agency

WADEM World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

WAHAT Welsh Association of Health Authorities and Trusts

WAI Web Accessibility Initiative

WAN Wide Area Network

WAP Wireless Access Protocol

WAST Westcountry Ambulance Services NHS Trust

WAT Workforce Action Team

WBC White Blood Corpuscle or leukocyte

WCA Waste Collection Authority

WCH West Cornwall Hospital

WCVA Wales Council for Voluntary Action

WD Warm/Dry

WDA Waste Disposal Authority

WDC Workforce Development Confederation

WDGH West Dorset General Hospitals

WEA Workers Educational Association

WeBNF Web accessible BNF

WEETU Women's Employment Enterprise and Training Unit, Norfolk

WEHCT Winchester & Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust

WEN Women's Environment Network

WEST Winter and Emergency Services Team

WF Work Foundation (formerly Industrial Society)

WFP Working for Patients

WFTC Working Families Tax Credit now replaced by Tax Credits

WGLGFS Working Group on Local Government Financial Statistics (pronounced wugfluss)

WGSMT Working Group on Specialist Medical Training

WHCSA Welsh Health Common Services Agency (obsolete) Now part of Welsh Health Estates


WHE Welsh Health Estates


WHO World Health Organisation

WIC Walk In Centre

WIGS Women in Grey Suits

WIH Work in Hand

WIS Waiting-room Information Service

WIST Women in Surgical Training Scheme

WLGA Welsh Local Government Association

WM Workload Measure. (e.g. OBD, LOS, FCE)

WMAS West Midland Ambulance Service

WMCIU West Midlands Cancer Intelligence Unit

WMPH West Midlands Public Health

WNAB Workforce Numbers Advisory Board

WNC Womens National Commission

WoCPCT West of Cornwall Primary Care Trust

WONCA World Organisation of National Colleges Academies and academic associations of general practitioners / family physicians

WP White Paper

WPD Warm, Pink, Dry

WRA Waste Regulation Authority (now part of the Environment Agency)

WRC Women's Resource Centre

WRL Weighted Road Length (part of SSA)

WRT Workforce Review Team

WRVS Women's Royal Voluntary Service

WTC Working Tax Credit

WTD Working Time Directive

wte Whole Time Equivalent

WTEP Whole Time Equivalent Posts

WTI Waiting Time Initiative

WU Women’s Unit

WWW World-Wide Web

WYCAP Wythenshawe Community Asthma Project

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XML eXtensible Markup Language

XR X ray

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Y/O year-old

YCS Young Chronic Sick

YDU Young Disabled Unit

YF Yorkshire Forward

YHYCYS Your Health Your Care Your Say

YMCA Young Men's Christian Association

YMMV Your Mileage May Vary

YOT Youth Offender Team

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ZBB Zero-Base Budgeting

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List courtesy of Socialist Health Association