NHS Abbreviations | Acronyms
Please find below a list of acronyms which you may come across in your role at Healthwatch.
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| AAU | Acute Assessment Unit |
| A&E | Accident & Emergency |
| ABCD | Asset Based Community Development |
| ACS | Ambulatory Care Sensitive (conditions) |
| ACU | Ambulatory Care Unit |
| AD | Assistant Director |
| ADASS | Association of Directors of Adult Social Services |
| ADPH | Association of Directors of Public Health |
| AEDB | A&E Delivery Board |
| AGM | Annual General Meeting |
| AH | Acute Hospital |
| AHP | Allied Health Professional |
| AIC | Aligned Incentive Contract |
| ALPS | Acute Liaison Psychiatric Service |
| AMR | Antimicrobial Resistance |
| AMU | Acute Medical Unit |
| ANP | Advanced Nurse Practitioner |
| APMS | Alternative Provider of Medical Services |
| AQP | Any Qualified Provider |
| AR | Active Recovery Beds |
| ASC | Adult Social Care |
| BAF | Board Assurance Framework |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| BCF | Better Care Fund |
| BMA | British Medical Association |
| BME | Black and Ethnic Minority |
| BP | Blood Pressure |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| CAMHS | Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services |
| CBT | Cognitive Behavioural Therapy |
| CCG | Clinical Commissioning Group |
| CD | Clinical Director |
| CDI | Clostridium Difficile Infection |
| CDiff | Clostridium Difficile |
| C&E | Communications and Engagement |
| CEP | Capped Expenditure Process |
| CH | Care Hub |
| CHC | Continuing Healthcare |
| CHCP | City Healthcare Partnership |
| CHD | Coronary Heart Disease |
| CMB | Contract Management Board |
| CMHS | Community and Mental Health Services |
| CMO | Chief Medical Officer |
| CNO | Chief Nursing Officer |
| CoM | Council of Members |
| CPA | Clinical Pathology Accreditation / Care Program Approach |
| CP-IS | Child Protection – Information Sharing |
| CQC | Care Quality Commission |
| CQUIN | Commissioning for Quality and Innovation |
| CSS | Commissioning Support Service |
| CSU | Commissioning Support Unit |
| CVD | Cardiovascular Disease |
| CWT | Cancer Waiting Times |
| CYP | Children & Young People |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| DES | Directed Enhanced Service |
| DHSC | Department of Health and Social Care |
| DNA | Did Not Attend |
| DoLS | Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards |
| DOS | Directory of Services |
| DPH | Director of Public Health |
| DTA | Decision to Admit |
| DTOC | Delayed Transfer of Care |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| EAU | Elderly Assessment Unit |
| ECIP | Emergency Care Improvement Programme |
| ECIST | Emergency Care Intensive Support Team |
| ED | Emergency Department |
| ENT | Ear, Nose and Throat |
| ERCH | East Riding Community Hospital |
| ERS | E-Referral Service |
| ERY | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| ERYCCG | NHS East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group |
| ETTF | Estates and Technology Transformation Fund |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| FCP | First Contact Practitioner |
| FFCE | First Finished Consultant Episode (admissions) |
| FFT | Friends and Family Test |
| FOI | Freedom of Information |
| FRP | Financial Recovery Plan |
| FT | Foundation Trust |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| GDPR | General Data Protection Regulation |
| GMC | General Medical Council |
| GMS | General Medical Services |
| GP | General Practitioner |
| GP OOH | General Practice Out-of-Hours Service |
| GPFV | General Practice Forward View |
| GPhC | General Pharmaceutical Council |
| GPwSI | General Practitioner with Special Interest |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| HAR | Health Active Recovery beds |
| HCAI | Healthcare Acquired Infection |
| HEE | Health Education England |
| HEREN | Hull and East Riding Equality Network |
| HFT | Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust |
| HIC | High Impact Changes |
| HFT | Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust |
| HPA | Health Protection Agency |
| HSCIC | Health & Social Care Information Centre |
| HUTH | Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
| HSCIC | Health & Social Care Information Centre |
| HW | Healthwatch |
| HWBB | Health and Wellbeing Board |
| HWERY | Healthwatch East Riding of Yorkshire |
| HYMS | Hull and York Medical School |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| IAPT | Improving Access to Psychological Therapies |
| IBCF | Integrated Better Care Fund |
| ICAS | Independent Complaints Advocacy Service |
| ICP | Integrated Care Pathway |
| ICT | Information and Communication Technology |
| ICU | Intensive Care Unit |
| IFR | Individual Funding Requests |
| IP | In-patient |
| IPC | Infection Prevention Control |
| IST | Intensive Support Team |
| IUC | Integrated Urgent Care |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| JSNA | Joint Strategic Needs Assessment |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| KPI (s) | Key Performance Indicators (s) |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| LCF | Locality Commissioning Forum |
| LD | Learning Disabilities |
| LES | Local Enhanced Services |
| LDC | Local Dental Committee |
| LDR | Local Digital Roadmap |
| LMC | Local Medical Committee |
| LOC | Local Optometry Committee |
| LPC | Local Pharmaceutical Committee |
| LRTI | Lower Respiratory Tract Infection |
| LSCB | Local Safeguarding Children Board |
| LTC | Long term condition |
| LTHFT | Leeds Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| MAS | Memory Assessment Service |
| MBU | Mother and Baby Units |
| MCI | Mild Cognitive Impairment |
| MCP | Multi-Speciality Community Providers |
| MDT | Multi-Disciplinary Team |
| MECC | Making Every Contact Count |
| MH | Mental Health |
| MIU | Minor Injuries Unit |
| MMR | Measles, Mumps, Rubella |
| MMS | Multi Morbidity Service |
| MRI | Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| MRSA | Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus |
| MSSA | Methicillin Sensitive Staphylococcus Aureus |
| MVP | Maternity Voices Partnership |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| NGO | Non-Governmental Organisation |
| NHAIS | National Health Applications and Infrastructure Services (‘Exeter’ System) |
| NHS | National Health Service |
| NHSE | NHS England |
| NHSI | NHS Improvement |
| NICE | National Institute for Health and Care Excellence |
| NICU | Neonatal Intensive Care Unit |
| NIHR | National Institute for Health Research |
| NLaG | NLGH | Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust |
| NMC | The Nursing and Midwifery Council |
| NQB | National Quality Board |
| NRLS | National Reporting and Learning System |
| NYH | North Yorkshire & Humber |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| OD | Organisational Development |
| ONS | Office for National Statistics |
| OOA | Out of Area |
| OOH | Out of hours |
| OSC | Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| OT | Occupational Therapist |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| PA | Physician Associate |
| PBR | Payment by Results |
| PC | Palliative Care beds |
| PCCC | Primary Care Commissioning Committee |
| PCDG | Primary Care Development Group |
| PCJCC | Primary Care Joint Commissioning Committee |
| PCMD | Primary Care Mortality Database |
| PCN | Primary Care Network |
| PCN CD | Primary Care Network Clinical Director |
| PEC | Productive Elective Care (CCG Transformation Programme Area) |
| PBH | Personal Health Budgets |
| PHE | Public Health England |
| PICU | Paediatric Intensive Care Unit |
| PM | Practice Manager |
| PMO | Project Management Office |
| PMS | Personal Medical Services |
| PPG | Patient Participation Group |
| PROMS | Patient Reported Outcome Measures |
| PS | Positive Steps beds |
| PTL | Protected Time for Learning |
| PWB | Personal Wheelchair Budgets |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| QARC | Quality Assurance Reference Centre |
| QIPP | Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention |
| QOF | Quality Outcomes Framework |
| QPIC | Quality and Performance Improvement Committee |
| QSG | Quality Surveillance Groups |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| RCA | Root Cause Analysis |
| RCGP | Royal College of General Practitioners |
| RCN | Royal College of Nursing |
| RCP | Royal College of Physicians |
| R&D | Research and Development |
| RDAC | Rapid Diagnostic and Assessment Centres |
| ReSPECT | Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment |
| RMN | Registered Mental Nurse |
| RSS | Referral Support Service |
| RTT | Referral to Treatment |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| SCN | Strategic Clinical Network |
| SDIP | Service Delivery Improvement Plan |
| SEND | Special Educational Needs and Disability |
| SHMI | Standardised Hospital Mortality Indicator |
| SI | Serious Incidents |
| SLA | Service Level Agreement |
| SLT | Senior Leadership Team |
| SOP | Standard Operating Procedures |
| SRCC | Service Redesign and Commissioning Committee |
| SRG | System Resilience Group |
| SSNAP | Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme |
| STP | Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships |
| SVP | Supporting Vulnerable People (CCG Transformation Programme Area) |
| SWAN | South West Area Network |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| TCPCS | Transforming Community & Primary Care Services (CCG Transformation Programme Area) |
| TDA | Trust Development Authority |
| TUPE | Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations |
| TDA | Trust Development Authority |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| UCC | Urgent Care Centre |
| UPC | Enhanced Unplanned Care Services and Outcomes (CCG Transformation Programme Area) |
| UTC | Urgent Treatment Centre |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| VCS | Voluntary and Community Sector |
| VFM | Value for Money |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| WHO | World Health Organisation |
| WSYB | West & South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| XSBD | Excess Bed Days |
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Abbreviation |
Term |
| YAS | Yorkshire Ambulance Service |
| Y&H AHSN | Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network |
| YTD | Year to Date |
| YTHFT | York Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust |
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