Health and social care acronyms and abbreviations A

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  A&E = Accident & Emergency
  
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  ABHI = Association of British Healthcare Industries
  
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  ACFA = Access Control Framework Access
  
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  ACPO = Association of Chief Police Officers
  
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  ADASS= Association Of Directors of Adult Social Care Services
  
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  ADT = Admissions, discharges and transfers
  
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  AHP = Allied Health Professional
  
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  ALB = Arms Length Bodies
  
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  AKD = Acute Kidney Dysfunction
  
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  AMPH=Approved Mental Health Professional (formerly Approved Social Worker)
  
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  AoMRC = Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
  
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  APM = Association for Project Management
  
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  ASCC = Additional Supply Capability and Capacity
  
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  ATP = Authority to proceed
  
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  AUP = Acceptable Usage Policy
  
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  AWP = Any Willing Provider
  

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  BAU = Business As Usual
  
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  BAUS = British Association of Urological Surgeons
  
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  BC = Business Continuity
  
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  BCDR = Business continuity and disaster recovery
  
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  BCS = British Computer Society
  
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  BKM = Bundle Key Milestone
  
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  BMA = British Medical Association
  

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  CAB/C&B = Choose and Book
  
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  CAB = Change Advisory Board
  
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  CAF = Common Assessment Framework
  
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  CAP = Common Assurance Process
  
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  CALS = Clinical Advice and Liaison Service
  
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  CCAD = Central Cardiac Audit Database
  
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  CCG = Clinical Commissioning Group
  

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  CN = Change Control Notice
  
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  CCU = Critical Care Unit
  
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  CDA = Clinical Document Architecture
  
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  CDAs = CG Delegated Authorities
  
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  CDS = Commissioning Data Set
  
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  CDU = clinical decision unit
  
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  CEO = Chief Executive Officer
  
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  CFH/CfH = Connecting for Health: please note, this should only ever be NHS CFH please
  
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  CG = Caldicott Guardian
  
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  CHRIS = Central Health Register Inquiry System
  
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  CIO = Chief Information Officer
  
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  CIS = Central Issue System
  
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  CILIP = Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
  
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  CIT = Clinical Information Technology
  
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  CMASG = Clinical Messaging Architecture Steering Group
  
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  CMHT = Community Mental Health Team
  
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  CMT = Controlled Medical Terminology
  
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  COI = Central Office of Information
  
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  COPD = Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
  
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  CP = Change proposal
  
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  CPA = Care Programme Approach
  
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  CP = Change proposal
  
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  CPD = Continuing Professional Development
  
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  CQC = Care Quality Commission
  
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  CQRS = Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS)
  
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  CQUIN = Commissioning for Quality and Innovation
  
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  CRDB = Care Record Development Board
  
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  CRG = clinical reference group
  
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  CSA = Clinical Spine Application
  
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  CSC = Computer Sciences Corporation
  
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  CSIPs = Continuous Service Improvement Plans
  
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  CSP = Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
  
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  CSSRs = Councils with Social Services Responsibilities
  
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  CTP = Community Third Party
  
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  CUI = Common User Interface
  

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  DA = Delegated Authority
  
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  DA = Design Authority
  
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  DCW = Data Collection Worksheet
  
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  DDM = Design Decision Matrix
  
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  DEN = Delay Event Notice
  
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  DepMAC = Deployment Milestone Achievement Certificate
  
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  DevMAC = Development Milestone Achievement Certificate
  
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  DES = Directed Enhanced Service
  
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  DH = Department of Health
  
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  DHID = Department of Health Informatics Directorate
  
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  DIP = Digital Information Policy Team
  
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  dm+d = Dictionary of Medicines & Devices
  
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  DKM = Deployment Key Milestone
  
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  DNA = did not attend
  
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  DNS = Domain Name Service
  
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  DNR = Do Not Resuscitate
  
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  DR = Disaster Recovery
  
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  DRA = Design and Release Authority
  
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  DS = Discharge Summary
  
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  DSCN = Data Set Change Notices
  
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  DTS (N3 connection required) = Data Transfer Service (N3 connection required, NHS staff only)
  

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  EBIS = Evidence-based implementation support
  
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  E4E = Energise for Excellence
  
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  ECTMS = Electronic Clinical Transfusion Management System
  
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  ED = Emergency Department
  
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  EDI = Electronic Data Interchange
  
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  EDM = Electronic Document Management
  
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  eDSM = enhanced data sharing modelCSU = Commissioning Support Unit
  
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  EDT = External/Electronic Data Transfer
  
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  eGIF = Electronic Government Interoperability Framework
  
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  EHR = Electronic Health Record
  
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  EITS = Essential IT Skills
  
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  EMIS = Egton Medical Information Systems
  
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  EPR = Electronic Patient Record
  
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  EPIP = Entity PACS Implementation Plan
  
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  EPOS = Electronic Purchasing Online System
  
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  EPS = Electronic Prescription Service
  
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  ERG = External Reference Group
  
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  ESP = Existing Systems Provider
  
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  ESR = Electronic Staff Record
  
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  ETD = Education, Training & Development
  
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  EWAs = Enterprise-wide Arrangements
  

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  FBC = Full business case
  
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  FDA = First Division Association = Organisation (union) for Senior Civil Servants
  
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  FWAF = Flexibility within a Framework
  
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  FOI = Freedom of Information
  
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  FOT = First of type
  
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  FRI = Front Line Readiness for Implementation
  

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  GP = General Practitioner
  
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  GPC = General Practitioners Committee
  
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  GPPCS = GP Payments Calculation Service
  
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  GPSoC = GP Systems of Choice
  
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  GPPUG = GP Pan User Group
  

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  HDU = High Dependency Unit
  
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  HES = Hospital Episodes Statistics
  
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  HIA = Hardware, Infrastructure and Associated
  
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  HIC = Health Informatics Community
  
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  HINOS = Health Informatics National Occupational Standards
  
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  HIQS = Health Informatics Quality Scheme
  
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  HIR = Health Informatics Review
  
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  HIS = Health Information Service/System
  
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  HL7 = Health Level 7
  
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  HPA = Health Protection Agency
  
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  HPSS = Health and Personal Social Services
  
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  HRGs = Healthcare Resource Groups
  
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  HSCIC = Health and Social Care Information Centre
  
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  HSSI = Higher Severity Service Incident
  

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  ICAS = Independent Complaints Advocacy Service
  
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  ICD = Informatics Capability Development
  
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  ICD = international classification of diseases
  
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  ICD-9-CM = used to code and classify morbidity data
  
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  ICO = Information Commissioner's Office
  
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  ICP = Integrated Care Pathway
  
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  ICT = Information and Communication Technology
  
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  IDF = Interim Data Feed
  
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  IEP = Image Exchange Portal
  
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  IG = Information Governance
  
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  IGT/IG Toolkit = IG Toolkit
  
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  IGTT = Information Governance Training Tool
  
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  IGSoC = Information Governance Statement of Compliance
  
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  IHE = Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
  
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  IHM = Institute of Healthcare Management
  
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  IHRIM = Institute of Health Record & Information Management
  
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  IHTSDO = International Health Terminolondle Administrator Messages
  
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  ITT = Institute of IT Training
  
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  IMIA = International Medical Informatics Association
  
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  IM&TDES = Information Management & Technology Direct Enhanced Service
  
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  INNS = Interim NHS Numbering System
  
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  IQAP = Information Quality Assurance Programme
  
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  ISB = Information Standards Board
  
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  ISB HaSC = Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care
  
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  ISIP = Integrated Service Improvement Programme
  
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  ISMF = Information Security Management Forum
  
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  ISTC = Independent Sector Treatment Centres
  
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  ISTCM = IT Service Continuity Management
  
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  ITIL = Information Technology Infrastructure Library
  
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  ITK = Interoperability Toolkit
  
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  ITRS = IT Research Services Framework
  
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  ITSCM = IT Service Continuity Management
  
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  ITS = Initial Tracing Service
  
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  ITT = Invitation to Tender
  
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  ITU = Intensive Therapy Unit
  

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  JGPITC = Joint GP IT Committee
  

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  KPI = Key Performance Indicator
  
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  KSF = Key Skills Framework
  

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  LAs = Local Authorities
  
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  LARs = Large Account Resellers
  
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  LCA = Logical Connection Architecture
  
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  LCFS = local counter fraud specialist
  
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  LES = Local enhanced service
  
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  LHB = Local Health Board
  
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  LHC = Local Health Community
  
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  LIMS = Laboratory Information Management Systems
  
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  LMC = Local Medical Committee
  
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  LPfIT = London Programme for IT
  
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  LOA = Local Organisation Administrator
  
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  LSD = Local Service Desk
  
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  LSP = Local Service Provider
  

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  MAU = medical admission unit
  
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  MACS = Migration Analysis Cleansing Service
  
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  MHRA = Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
  
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  MRS = Multi Resource Scheduling
  
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  MSP = Managing Successful Programmes
  
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  MTUs = Mobile Training Units
  

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  NACS = National Administrative Codes Service, now known as ODS (= Organisation Data Service)
  
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  NAO = National Audit Office
  
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  NBTC = National Blood Transfusion Committee
  
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  NCLs = National Clinical Leads
  
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  NCGC = National Clinical Guideline Centre
  
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  NCMP = national child measurement programme
  
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  NCRI = National Cancer Research Institute
  
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  NDRI = National Duplicate Registration Initiative
  
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  NHAIS = National Health Applications & Infrastructure Services
  
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  NEC = Not Elsewhere Classified
  
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  NHS = National Health Service
  
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  NHS CFH = NHS Connecting for Health
  
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  NHSCR = NHS Central Register
  
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  NHSD = NHS Direct
  
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  NHSLA = NHS Litigation Authority
  
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  NHSSC = NHS Supply Chain
  
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  NICA = National Integration Centre and Assurance
  
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  NICE = National Institute of Clinical Excellence
  
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  NICIP = National Interim Clinical Imaging Procedure
  
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  NIGB = National Information Governance Board
  
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  NIMM = NHS Infrastructure Maturity Model
  
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  NISP = National Infrastructure Service Provider
  
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  N3SP = N3 Service Provider
  
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  NLMS = National Learning Management System
  
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  NLOP = NPfIT (National Programme for IT) Local Ownership Programme
  
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  NMAS = National Messaging Assurance Service
  
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  NME = North, Midlands and East (Programme for IT)
  
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  NMLC = National Laboratory Medicine Catalogue
  
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  NN4B = NHS Numbers for Babies
  
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  NPfIT = National Programme for IT
  
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  NPOG = National Programme Office
  
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  NPSA = National Patient Safety Agency
  
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  NSF = National Service Framework
  
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  NSG = National Stakeholder Group
  
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  NSTS = NHS Strategic Tracing Service
  
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  NUG = National User Group
  
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  NWW (N3 connection required) = NHS Wide Web
  

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  OBC = Outline Business Case
  
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  OBS = Output Based Specification
  
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  OCCO = Office of the Chief Clinical Officer
  
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  ODS = Organisation Data Service
  
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  OJEU = Official Journal of the European Union
  
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  OLM = Oracle Learning Management
  
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  ONS = Office for National Statistics
  
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  OOH = Out of hours
  
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  OPCS = Office for Population Censuses and Surveys Classification of Surgical Operations and Procedures
  
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  ORAM = Organisational Readiness Assurance Model
  
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  OSCHR = Office for Strategic Co-ordination of Health Research
  

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  PAC = Public Accounts Committee
  
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  PACS = Picture Archiving and Communications System
  
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  PALS = Patient Advice and Liaison Service
  
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  PARR (PDF 206Kb) = Patients At Risk of Re-Hospitalisation
  
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  PARR = Patients At Risk of Re-Hospitalisation
  
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  PAS = Patient Administration System
  
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  PASA = Purchasing and Supply Agency
  
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  PBC = Practice-Based Commissioning
  
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  PBO = Personal Demographics Service National Back Office
  
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  PCIS = Primary Care Information System
  
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  PCO = primary care organisation
  
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  PCT = primary care trust
  
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  PDS = Personal Demographics Service
  
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  PDEE = Patient Data Enquiry/Extract
  
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  PDT = Programme Delivery Team
  
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  PFI = Private Finance Initiative
  
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  PIAG = Patient Information Advisory Group
  
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  PID = Person Identifiable Data
  
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  PID = Project Initiation Document
  
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  PIP = Public Information Programme
  
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  PHI = Professionalising Health Informatics
  
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  PKI = Public Key Infrastructure
  
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  PLIMS = Pathology Laboratory Information System
  
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  PMI = Patient Master Index
  
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  PMIP = Pathology Messaging Implementation Programme
  
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  PoC = Proof of Concept
  
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  PPI = Patient and Public Involvement
  
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  PPG = Patient Participation Group
  
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  PSIS = Personal Spine Information Service
  
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  PTL = Patient Tracking List
  

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  Q&A = Questions and Answers
  
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  QIPP = Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention
  
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  QMAS = Quality Management and Analysis System
  
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  QOF = Quality Outcome Framework (Assessor Validation Reports)
  

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  R&D = Research & Development
  
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  RACI = Responsible Accountable Consulted Informed
  
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  RA = Registration Authority
  
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  RBAC = Role-Based Access Control
  
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  RCP = Royal College of Physicians
  
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  RCGP = Royal College of General Practitioners
  
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  RFA = Requirements for Accreditation Scheme
  
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  RFC = Request for change
  
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  RFID = Radio Frequency identification
  
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  ROCR = Review of Central Returns Steering Committee
  
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  RTT = Referral to Treatment
  

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  SAML = Security Assertion Mark-up Language
  
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  SAP = Single Assessment Process
  
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  SAU = surgical admission unit
  
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  SCAG = NHS Security and Confidentiality Advisory Group
  
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  SCCAG = Southern Combined Clinical Advisory Group
  
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  SCG = Standards Consulting Group
  
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  SCR = Summary Care Record
  
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  SCS = Senior Civil Servant
  
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  SDS Bureau Service = Spine Directory Service Bureau Service
  
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  SHA = strategic health authority
  
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  SHOT = Serious Hazards of Transfusion
  
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  SIs = statutory instruments
  
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  SIRTs = Service Issues Resolution Team
  
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  SITREPs = Situation reports
  
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  SMCs = Supply Management Confederations
  
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  SNOMED CT = Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms
  
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  SOC = Strategic Outline Case
  
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  SMRAP = Supplier Maintenance Release Assurance Procedure
  
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  SPA = Single Point of Access
  
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  SPfIT = Southern Programme for IT
  
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  SPN = Safer Practice Notice
  
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  SRO = senior responsible owner
  
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  SSD = Systems and Service Delivery
  
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  STEP = Standards Enforcement in Procurement
  
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  SUS = Secondary Uses Service
  
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  SUG = Special User Group
  

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  TAP = Training Application Performance
  
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  TAG = Technical Advisory Group
  
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  TDB = Tracking Database
  
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  TERS = Testing Environments and Related Services
  
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  TMS = Transaction Messaging Service
  
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  TRC = Training Resource Centre
  
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  TRUD service = Technology Reference Data Update Distribution
  
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  TSG = Terminology Steering Group
  
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  TTA = Tablets to Take Away
  
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  TUPE = Transfer of undertaking protection of employment regulations
  
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  TWR = two-week referral
  

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  UBRN = Unique Booking Reference Number
  
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  UCLH = University College London Hospital
  
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  UICC = International Union against Cancer
  
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  UKChip = UK Council for Health Informatics Professions
  
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  UKCRC = UK Clinical Research Collaboration
  
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  UKTC = UK Terminology Centre
  
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  URP = User Role Profile
  

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  VDI = Virtualised Desktop Infrastructure
  
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  VoIP = Voice over internet protocol technology
  
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  VSNAG = Voluntary Sector National Advisory Group
  

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  WTE = Whole Time Equivalent
  

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  XML = Extensible Markup Language
  

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