| Acronym |
Meaning |
| 121A |
Police referral form 121A (recording reported incidents involving children including domestic violence) |
| 2GT / 2GNHSFT |
2gether NHS Foundation Trust |
| 2WW |
2 week wait |
| 6CS |
Compassion In Practice – Care; Compassion; Competence; Communication; Courage; Commitment |
| A/AS |
A level and Advanced Subsidiary |
| A&E |
Accident and emergency |
| A2YO |
Achieving 2 Year Olds |
| AA |
Administering Authority |
| AA |
Alcoholics Anonymous |
| ABCD |
Adult Based Community Development |
| ABHB |
Aneurin Bevan Health Board |
| ABHI |
Association of British Healthcare Industries |
| ABP |
Annual Business Plan |
| ACCT |
Assessment, Care in Custody and Treatment |
| ACE |
Adverse Childhood Experience |
| ACET |
Adult Continuing Education and Training |
| ACFA |
Access Control Framework Access |
| ACMD |
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs |
| ACORN |
A Classification Of Residential Neighbourhoods |
| ADASS |
Association of Directors of Adult Social Services |
| ADCS |
Association of Directors of Children's Services |
| ADHD |
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |
| ADL |
Activities of Daily Living |
| ADSL |
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
| ADT |
Admissions, discharges and transfers |
| ADVA |
Against Domestic Violence Abuse |
| AEC |
Ambulatory Emergency Care |
| AEN |
Additional Educational Need (includes SEN) |
| AFA - G1 |
Automatic Fire Alarm Activation Grade 1 (High risk premises) |
| AFA - G2 |
Automatic Fire Alarm Activation Grade 2 (Low risk premises) |
| AFL |
Assessment For Learning |
| AHP |
Allied Health Professional |
| AHSN |
Academic Health Science Network |
| AIS |
Accessible Information Standard |
| AL |
Annual Leave |
| ALB |
Arms Length Bodies |
| ALB |
Adoption Leadership Board |
| ALP |
Aerial Ladder Platform |
| ALT |
Assisted Living Technology |
| AMD |
Age related Macular Degeneration |
| AMHP |
Approved Mental Health Practitioner |
| AMPS |
Asset Management and Property Services |
| ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
| AO |
Accountable Officer (Clinical Commissioning Group) |
| AoMRC |
Academy of Medical Royal College |
| AONB |
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty |
| AOT |
Assisted Outpatient Treatment |
| APHO |
Association of Public Health Observatories |
| API |
Application Programming Interface |
| APM |
Association for Project Management |
| APP |
Assessing Pupil Progress |
| APR |
Approval Process for Recruitment |
| AQP |
Any Qualified Provider |
| ARA |
Addiction Recovery Agency |
| ASC |
Adult Social Care (Gloucestershire County Council) |
| ASC |
Adult Social Care |
| ASC-CAR |
Adult Social Care Combined Activity Return |
| ASC-FR |
Adult Social Care Finance Return (ASC-FR) |
| ASCC |
Additional Supply Capability and Capacity |
| ASCOF |
Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework |
| ASCS |
Adult Social Care Survey |
| ASG |
Accredited Schools Group |
| ASMT |
Administrative Systems Management Team |
| ASP |
Adult Single Programme |
| ASP |
Application Service Provider |
| AST |
Advanced Skills Teacher |
| ASYE |
Assisted & Supported year of employment (newly qualified social workers probationary period ) |
| ATC |
Achievement Through Collaboration |
| ATP |
Authority to Proceed |
| ATS |
Applicant Tracking System (recruitment) |
| AUP |
Acceptable Use Policy |
| AVA |
Abuse of Vulnerable Adults |
| AWP |
Any Willing Provider |
| B&NES |
Bath and North East Somerset |
| B2B |
Business to Business (commercial transactions between businesses) |
| BA |
Breathing Apparatus |
| BAME |
Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic |
| BAU |
Business As Usual |
| BAUS |
British Association of Urological Surgeons |
| BBL |
Building Better Lives |
| BBV |
Blood Borne Virus |
| BC |
Business Continuity |
| BCDR |
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery |
| BCF |
Better Care Fund |
| BCM |
Business Continuity Management |
| BCP |
Business Continuity Plan |
| BCS |
British Computer Society |
| BECTA |
British Educational Communications & Technology Agency |
| BEER |
Behaviour, Effect, Explanation, Results (for reviews) |
| BESD |
Behavioural Emotional & Social Difficulties |
| BGSW |
Bath, Gloucester, Swindon, Wiltshire Local Area Team (LAT) |
| BICA |
Background Information Contact Assessment |
| BILD |
British Institute of Learning Disabilities |
| BIRT |
Business Intellingence Report task |
| BIS |
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills |
| BIT |
Behavioural Insight Team |
| BKM |
Bundle Key Milestone |
| BMA |
British Medical Association |
| BMD |
Births, Marriages & Deaths |
| BME |
Black and Minority Ethnic |
| BMW |
Biodegradeable Municipal Waste |
| BNP |
Brain Natriuretic Peptide |
| BOSCARDET |
Background, Objectives, Scope, Constraints, Assumptions, Reporting, Dependencies, Estimates, Timescales |
| BP |
Business Partner |
| BPPC |
Better Payment Practice Code |
| BSC |
Business Service Centre (payroll, supplier payments & income) |
| BSF |
Building Schools for the Future |
| BTEC |
Buisiness and Technology Education Council |
| BURISA |
Board of the British Urban and Regional Information Systems Association |
| BV |
Best Value |
| BVPI |
Best Value Performance Indicator |
| BVPP |
Best Value Performance Plan |
| BYOD |
Bring Your Own Device |
| C |
Chimney |
| C-PAC |
Commissioning Personalisation for Adults and Children |
| C.diff |
Clostridium Difficile |
| C&I |
Communities and Infrastructure |
| CAAS |
Clinical Advice And Assessment Service |
| CAB |
Commercial Assurance Board |
| CAB |
Change Advisory Board |
| CAB/C&B |
Choose and Book |
| CACD |
Community & Adult Care Directorate (historical term) |
| CACI |
Consolidated Analysis Centres Incorporated |
| CAF |
Common Assessment Framework |
| CAIRB |
Communication And Interaction Resource Base |
| CallCH |
Call Challenge |
| CALS |
Clinical Advice And Liaison Service |
| CAMHS |
Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services |
| CAO |
Child Arrangements Order |
| CAP |
Common Assurance Process |
| CAPEX |
Capital Expenditures |
| CAQDAS |
Computer Assisted Qualitative Data AnalysiS |
| CARAT |
Counselling, Assessment Referral Advice and Throughcare |
| CASSRs |
Councils with Adult Social Service Responsibilities |
| CAT |
Cognative Ability Test |
| CBA |
Criteria Based Access |
| CBS |
Community Based Service |
| CBT |
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy |
| CCA |
Civil Contingencies Act 2004 |
| CCAD |
Central Cardiac Audit Database |
| CCE |
Communications and Community Engagement |
| CCG |
Clinical Commissioning Gloucestershire |
| CCG |
Clinical Commissioning Group |
| CCN |
Change Control Notice |
| CCP |
County Community Projects |
| CCS |
Civil Contingencies Secretariat |
| CCSQ |
Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly |
| CCU |
Critical Care Unit |
| CDA |
Clinical Document Architecture |
| CDAs |
Clinical Group Delegated Authorities |
| CDBs |
Commissioning & Development Boards |
| CDRP |
Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships |
| CDS |
Commissioning Data Set |
| CDU |
Clinical Decision Unit |
| CEFM |
Child, Early and Forced Marriage |
| CEO |
Chief Executive Officer |
| CEOP |
Child Exploitation and Online Protection |
| CFH/CfH |
Connecting for Health: please note, this should only ever be NHS CFH please |
| CFOA |
Chief Fire Officers Association |
| CFR |
Community First Responders |
| CFS |
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome |
| CG |
Caldicott Guardian |
| CGH |
Cheltenham General Hospital |
| CGL |
Change Grow Live |
| CHAI |
Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection |
| CHC |
Continuing Health Care |
| CHD |
Coronary Heart Disease |
| CHDG |
Community Hospitals Development Group |
| CHES |
Care Home Enhanced Service |
| CHIMAT |
Child and Maternal Health Intelligence Network |
| CHR |
Centre for Housing Research |
| CHRIS |
Central Health Register Inquiry System |
| CiC |
Children (or Child) in Care |
| CIGG |
Countywide Information Governance Group |
| CILIP |
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals |
| CIN |
Children In Need (Statutory Return) |
| CIO |
Community Interest Organisations |
| CIPFA |
Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounting |
| CIPFAstats |
Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounting statistics |
| CIPOLD |
Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths of people with learning disabilities |
| CIS |
Central Issue System |
| CIT |
Clinical Information Technology |
| CJD |
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
| CJIT |
Criminal Justice Integrated Teams |
| CLA |
Children Looked After |
| CLO |
Client Liaison Officer |
| CMASG |
Clinical Messaging Architecture Steering Group |
| CME |
Child Missing Education |
| CMHT |
Community Mental Health Team |
| CMS |
Content Management System |
| CMT |
Controlled Medical Terminology |
| CNN |
CIPFA Nearest Neighbour |
| Co |
Cotswold |
| CO |
Cabinet Office |
| COA |
Census Output Area |
| COF |
Commissioning Outcomes Framework |
| COI |
Central Office of Information |
| Comms |
Communications |
| CoMT |
Corporate Management Team |
| ContrOCC |
Contr Oxford Computer Systems |
| COPD |
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease |
| CP |
Child Protection |
| CP |
Clinical Pharmacist |
| CPA |
Comprehensive Performance Assessment |
| CPA |
Care Programme Approach |
| CPA |
Clinical Programme Approach |
| CPAP |
Continuous Positive Air Pressure |
| CPB |
Clinical Programme Board |
| CPD |
Continuing Professional Development |
| CPG |
Clinical Programme Group |
| CPR |
Child Protection Register |
| CPRD |
Clinical Practice Research Datalink |
| CQC |
Care Quality Commission |
| CQRG |
Clinical Quality Review Group (GCCG) |
| CQRS |
Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS) |
| CQRS |
Clinical Quality Review Service |
| CQUIN |
Commissioning for Quality and Innovation |
| CQUIN FRAMEWORK |
Clinical Quality Improvement: The CQUIN payment framework enables commissioners to reward excellence by linking a proportion of English healthcare providers’ income to the achievement of local quality improvement goals |
| CR |
Cellular Radio |
| CR |
Compulsory Redundancy |
| CRB |
Criminal Records Bureau |
| CRDB |
Care Record Development Board |
| CRG |
Clinical Reference Group |
| CRM |
Customer Relationship Management (system) |
| CSA |
Care Support Alliance |
| CSC |
Computer Sciences Corporation |
| CSCP |
Community Services Commissioning Plan |
| CSET |
County Special Education Team |
| CSEW |
Crime Survey for England and Wales |
| CSIPs |
Continuous Service Improvement Plans |
| CSO |
Customer Service Officer |
| CSP |
Community Safety Partnership |
| CSP |
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy |
| CSRI |
Client Service Receipt Inventory (CSRI) |
| CSS |
Children's Support Services (Capita Module) |
| CSSRs |
Councils with Social Services Responsibilities |
| CSU |
Commissioning Support Unit |
| CTD |
Corporate Training and Development |
| CTP |
Community Third Party |
| CTPC |
Children's Trust Partnership Council |
| CTSB |
Children's Trust Statutory Board |
| CUI |
Common User Interface |
| CVD |
Cardio Vascular Disease |
| CWDC |
Children's Workforce Development Council |
| CWP |
Cold Weather Plan |
| CX |
Customer Experience |
| CYP |
Children and Young People |
| CYPD |
Children and Young People's Directorate |
| CYPS |
Children & Young Peoples' Service |
| D&BS |
Disclosure and Barring Service |
| DA |
Delegated Authority |
| DA |
Design Authority |
| DAAT |
Drug and Alcohol Action Team |
| DAMS |
Drug and Alcohol Monitoring System |
| DASS |
Director of Adult Services |
| DAT |
Drug Action Team |
| DCLG |
Department for Communities and Local Government |
| DCS |
Directors of Children's Services |
| DCSF |
Department for Children Schools and Families (now replaced by Department for Education) |
| DCW |
Data Collection Worksheet |
| DDM |
Design Decision Matrix |
| DDN |
Dangerous Drug Network |
| DE |
Driving Excellence |
| DECC |
Department of Energy & Climate Change |
| DEFRA |
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs |
| DEN |
Delay Event Notice |
| DEPLO |
District Emergency Planning Liaison Officer |
| DepMAC |
Deployment Milestone Achievement Certificate |
| DES |
Directed Enhanced Service |
| DET |
Data Entry Tool |
| DevMAC |
Development Milestone Achievement Certificate |
| DfE |
Department for Education |
| DH |
Department of Health |
| DH ERD |
Department of Health External Relations Directorate |
| DHID/NHS CFH |
Department of Health Informatics Directorate including NHS Connecting for Health |
| DHSC |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| DIP |
Digital Information Policy Team |
| DIP |
Drug Interventions Programme |
| DIR |
Drug Interventions Record |
| DKM |
Deployment Key Milestone |
| dm+d |
Dictionary of Medicines & Devices |
| DME |
Data Management Environment |
| DMFT |
Decayed, Missing Filled Tooth |
| DMIC |
Data Management Integration Centre |
| DMS |
Defence Medical Services |
| DMT |
Departmental Management Team |
| DNA |
Did not attend |
| DNR |
Do not resuscitate |
| DNS |
Domain Name Service |
| DOB |
Date of Birth |
| DOD |
Date of Death |
| DoH |
Department of Health |
| DoLS |
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards |
| DOM CARE |
Domiciliary Care |
| DOS |
Directory of Services |
| DPA |
Data Protection Act 2018 |
| DPB |
Diagnostics Programme Board |
| DPIA |
Data Protection Impact Assessment |
| DPs |
Designated Person (used in Learning Management Service) |
| DR |
Disaster Recovery |
| DRA |
Design and Release Authority |
| DRR |
Drug Rehabilitation Requirement |
| DS |
Discharge Summary |
| DSCN |
Data Set Change Notices |
| DSG |
Direct Services Grant |
| DSP |
Data Set Profile |
| DSU |
Democratic Services Unit |
| DT |
Design Technology |
| DTM |
Desk Top Manager |
| DTO |
Departmental Training Officer |
| DTOC |
Delayed Transfers Of Care |
| DTS |
Data Transfer Service (NHS staff only) |
| DV |
Domestic Violence |
| DVT |
Deep Vein Thrombosis |
| DWP |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| E&D |
Equality and Diversity |
| E4E |
Energise for Excellence |
| EAP |
Employee Assistance Programme |
| EASS |
Equality Advisory and Support Service |
| EATA |
European Association for the Treatment of Addiction |
| EBacc |
English Baccalaureate |
| EBIS |
Evidence-Based Implementation Support |
| ECAT |
Every Child A Talker |
| ECG |
Electrocardiogram |
| ECM |
Electronic Call Monitoring |
| ECM |
Enterprise Content Management |
| ECTMS |
Electronic Clinical Transfusion Management System |
| ED |
Emergency Department |
| EDI |
Electronic Data Interchange |
| EDM |
Electronic Document Management |
| EDPSYCHS |
Educational Psychologists |
| EDS2 |
Equality Delivery System |
| eDSM |
Enhanced Data Sharing Model |
| EDT |
Emergency Duty Team (GCC out of hours social care/ safeguarding) |
| EDT |
External/Electronic Data Transfer |
| EEC |
Environment, Economy & Culture |
| EECT |
Ensuring Every Child Thrives |
| EFRACOM |
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee |
| eGIF |
Electronic Government Interoperability Framework |
| Egress Switch |
Secure email system |
| EHCP |
Education, Health And Care Plan |
| EHIC |
European Health Insurance Card |
| EHP |
Early Headship Provision |
| EHR |
Electronic Health Record |
| EIA |
Equality Impact Analysis |
| EIP |
Examination in Public |
| EITS |
Essential IT Skills |
| ELSA |
English Longitudinal Study of Ageing |
| EMIS |
Egton Medical Information Systems |
| ENDPB |
Exectuve non-Departmental Public Body |
| ENT |
Ear Nose and Throat |
| EO |
Equal Opportunity |
| EoL |
End of Life |
| EOTAS |
Education Other Than At School |
| EPAS |
Educational Performance Analysis System |
| EPIP |
Entity PACS Implementation Plan |
| EPOS |
Electronic Purchasing Online System |
| EPR |
Electronic Patient Record |
| EPRR |
Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response |
| EPS |
Electronic Prescription Service |
| EPT |
Emergency Planning Team (Gloucestershire County Council) |
| EPTDO |
Emergency Planning Team Duty Officer |
| EQ-CL |
Equalities and Classifications (EQ-CL) Framework |
| ERG |
External Reference Group |
| ERIC |
Electronic Records of Integrated Care |
| ERP |
Enterprise Resource Planning (integrated management of core business processes) |
| ERS |
Early Response Service |
| ESC |
Employment Services Contacts |
| ESI |
Electronically Stored Information |
| ESP |
Existing Systems Provider |
| ESR |
Electronic Staff Record |
| ESS |
Employee Self Service |
| ESS |
Extended Service in Schools |
| ESSC |
Emergency Special Service Call |
| ETD |
Education, Training & Development |
| EVG |
Employee Voice Group |
| EWAs |
Enterprise-Wide Arrangements |
| EWD |
Excess Winter Deaths |
| EWO |
Education Welfare Officer |
| EWS |
Education Welfare Service |
| EXTEL |
The Exchange Telegraph Co. Ltd. |
| EY&F |
Early Years & Families |
| EYFSP |
Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (results returned from schools) |
| EYLPs |
Early Years Lead Practitioners |
| EYSP |
Early Years Strategic Partnership |
| FACE |
Functional Analysis of Care Environment |
| FAFA |
False Alarm Fire Alarm |
| FAGI |
False Alarm Good Intent |
| FAIR |
Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable or reproducible |
| FAM |
False Alarm Malicious Intent |
| FAS |
Foetal Alcohol Syndrome |
| FBC |
Full Business Case |
| FDA |
Food and Drug Administration |
| FDR1 |
Fire Damage Report 1 |
| FDR1 - PO |
Fire Damage Report 1 Property Other |
| FDR1 - PR |
Fire Damage Report 1 Property Residential |
| FDR1 - VE |
Fire Damage Report 1 Vehicle |
| FDR3 |
Fire Damage Report 3 |
| FE |
Further Education |
| FFT |
Functional Family Therapy |
| FGC |
Family Group Conference |
| FGM |
Female Genital Mutilation |
| FHIR |
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources |
| FIPS |
Financial Intervention Panel for Schools |
| FITS |
Framework for ICT Technical Support |
| FLA |
Forum for Learning & Achievement |
| FNC |
Funded Nursing Care |
| FoD |
Forest of Dean |
| FOI |
Freedom of Information (Act) |
| FOT |
First of type |
| FRA |
Fire and Rescue Authority |
| FRI |
Front Line Readiness for Implementation |
| FRS |
Fire and Rescue Service |
| FSM |
Free School Meals |
| FST |
Face Screening Tool |
| FTE |
Full-time equivalent |
| FWAF |
Flexibility within a Framework |
| G1 |
Grade 1 |
| G2 |
Grade 2 |
| GAD |
Generalised Anxiety Disorder |
| GAVCA |
Gloucestershire Association for Voluntary & Community Action |
| GCare |
Online Symptom/referral pathways resource for Gloucestershire GPs |
| GCC |
Gloucestershire Country Council or Gloucester City Council |
| GCCG |
Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group |
| GCCG |
Gloucestershire Care Commissioning Group |
| GCH |
Gloucester City Health |
| GCP |
Gloucestershire Children's Partnership |
| GCPA |
Gloucestershire Care Providers Association |
| GCS |
Gloucester Care Services |
| GCS |
Gloucestershire Care Services (NHS) |
| GCSE |
General Certificate of Secondary Education |
| GCSNHST / GCS |
Gloucestershire Care Service NHS Trust |
| GDAS |
Gloucestershire Drug and Alcohol Service |
| GDPR |
General Data Protection Regulation |
| GEO |
Government Equalities Office |
| GES |
Gloucestershire Economic Strategy |
| GFR |
Glomerular Filtration Rate |
| GFRS |
Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service |
| GHAC |
Gloucester Health Access Centre |
| GHC |
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| GHCNHSFT |
[From 01/10/2019] Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| GHNHSFT |
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| GHNHSFT /GHT |
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| GI |
Gastro-intestinal |
| GIPA |
Green Impact Project Assistant (GIPA) |
| GIS |
Geographic Information System |
| GLA |
GL Assessment - Company that prepares and marks CATS |
| GLIC |
Gloucestershire Language Immersion Centre |
| GLPC |
Greater London Provincial Council |
| GLRF |
Gloucestershire Local Resilience Forum |
| GOLD |
Growing Older with Learning Difficulties group |
| GOPA |
Gloucestershire Older Persons Association |
| GOSS |
Gloucestershire / Oxfordshire Shared Services Partnership |
| GP |
General Practitioner |
| GPC |
General Practitioners Committee |
| GPES |
GP Extraction Service |
| GPPCS |
GP Payments Calculation Service |
| GPPUG |
GP Pan User Group |
| GPS |
Government Procurement Service |
| GPSoC |
GP Systems of Choice |
| GRCC |
Gloucestershire Rural Community Council |
| GRH |
Gloucestershire Royal Hospital |
| GS1 |
European Article Numbering (EAN) Association - later called GS1 |
| GSCB |
Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children's Board |
| GSF |
Gloucestershire Strategic Forum |
| GSPPF |
Gloucestershire Suicide Prevention Partnership Forum |
| GSS |
Government Statistics Service |
| GTEC |
Gloucestershire Tri-Service Emergency Centre (Waterwells Business Park) |
| GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
| GUM |
Genitourinary Medicine |
| GVA |
Gross Value Added |
| GYC |
Gloucestershire Young Carers |
| H&S |
Health and Safety |
| HALE |
Healthy Life Expectancy |
| HAM |
Handle Administrator Messages |
| HCAIs |
Health Care Acquired Infections |
| HCC |
Heath Care Commission |
| HCD |
Human Centred Design |
| HCIS |
Healthcare Information System |
| HCOSC |
Health And Care Overview And Scrutiny Committee |
| HCPC |
Health Care Professionals Council |
| HDFS |
Hadoop Distributed File System |
| HDU |
High Dependency Unit |
| HE |
Higher Education |
| HEAT |
Health Economic Assessment Tool |
| HEE |
Health Education England |
| HES |
Hospital Episodes Statistics |
| HHSRS |
Housing Health and Safety Rating System |
| HIA |
Hardware, Infrastructure and Associated |
| HIC |
Health Informatics Community |
| HINOS |
Health Informatics National Occupational Standards |
| HIP |
Healthy Individuals Programme |
| HIQS |
Health Informatics Quality Scheme |
| HIR |
Health Informatics Review |
| HIS |
Health Information Service/System |
| HIT |
Health Information Network |
| HIV |
Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
| HL7 |
Health Level 7 |
| HLA |
Housing Land Availability |
| HLE |
Healthy Life Expectancy |
| HLG |
Heads Liaison Group |
| HLTA |
High Level Teaching Assistant |
| HMCTS |
Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Services |
| HO |
Home Office |
| HOS |
Head of Service |
| HOSC |
Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| HPA |
Health Protection Agency |
| HPSS |
Health and Personal Social Services |
| HPV |
Human Papilloma Virus |
| HQIP |
Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership |
| HR |
Human Resources |
| HRC |
Household Recycling Centre |
| HRGs |
Healthcare Resource Groups |
| HRJ |
Hose Reel Jet |
| HSCIC |
Health & Social Care Information Centre |
| HSSI |
Higher Severity Service Incident |
| HSW |
Health, Safety and Welfare |
| HTG |
Harnessing Technology Grant |
| HWB |
Health and Wellbeing Board |
| HWE |
Healthwatch England |
| HWG |
Healthwatch Gloucestershire |
| I&A |
Information and Advice |
| IAA |
Information Asset Administrators |
| IaaS |
Infrastructure-as-a-service |
| IADL |
Instrumental activities of daily living |
| IAO |
Information Asset Owners |
| IAPT |
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies |
| IAR |
Information Asset Register |
| IBS |
Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
| ICAS |
Independent Complaints Advocacy Service |
| ICB |
Integrated Care Board (NHS) |
| icbo |
Integrated Commissioning for Better Outcomes |
| ICC |
Incident Coordination Centre (NHS) |
| ICD |
International Classification of Diseases |
| ICD |
Informatics Capability Development |
| ICF |
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health |
| ICO |
Information Commissioner's Office |
| ICP |
Integrated Care Pathway |
| ICS |
Integrated Care System |
| ICS |
Integrated Care Service |
| ICS/ICSM |
Integrated Care System/Integrated Care System Management |
| ICSDB |
ICS Delivery Board |
| ICT |
Integrated Community Teams |
| ICT |
Information and Communications Technology |
| IDACI |
Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index |
| IDAOPI |
Income Deprivation Affecting Older People Index |
| IDF |
Interim Data Feed |
| IDMP |
Identification of Medicinal Products |
| IDT |
Integrated Discharge Team |
| IDTS |
Integrated Drug Treatment System in prisons |
| IDU |
Injecting Drug User |
| IEP |
Individual Education Plan |
| IFR |
Individual Funding Review |
| IG |
Information Governance |
| IGSoC |
Information Governance Statement of Compliance |
| IGT |
IG Toolkit |
| IGTT |
Information Governance Training Tool |
| IHCAS |
Independent Health Complaints Advocacy |
| IHE |
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise |
| IHM |
Institute of Healthcare Management |
| IHRIM |
Institute of Health Record & Information Management |
| IHTSDO |
International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation |
| IIP |
Investors in People |
| IITT |
Institute of IT Training |
| ILB |
Integrated Locality Board |
| ILC-UK |
International Longevity Centre-UK |
| ILF |
Independent Living Funds |
| ILO |
International Labour Organisation |
| ILP |
Integrated Locality Partnership |
| IM&TDES |
Information Management & Technology Direct Enhanced Service |
| IMCA |
Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy Service |
| IMD |
Index of Multiple Deprivation |
| IMHA |
Independent Mental Health Advocacy |
| IMIA |
International Medical Informatics Association |
| IMS |
Information Management Service |
| IMSP |
Information Management and Strategic Planning |
| INLAWS |
Integrated Local Area Workforce Strategies |
| INNF |
Interventions Not Normally Funded |
| INNS |
Interim NHS Numbering System |
| IOM |
Integrated Offender Management |
| IPC |
Institute of Public Care |
| IPC |
Integrated Personal Commissioning |
| IPDS |
Individual Personal Development Scheme |
| IQAP |
Information Quality Assurance Programme |
| IRIS |
Intensive Recovery and Intervention Service (fostering) |
| IRMP |
Integrated Risk Management Plan |
| IS |
Information System(s) |
| ISA |
Independent Safeguarding Authority |
| ISB |
Information Security Breach |
| ISB |
Information Standards Board |
| ISB HaSC |
Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care |
| ISCG |
Informatics Services Commissioning Group |
| ISIP |
Integrated Service Improvement Programme |
| ISMF |
Information Security Management Forum |
| ISO |
Information Support Officer |
| ISR |
Individual school range - School Teacher Pay & Conditions |
| IST |
Integrated Service Team |
| IST |
Intensive Support Team |
| ISTC |
Independent Sector Treatment Centre |
| ISTCM |
IT Service Continuity Management |
| IT |
Information Technology |
| ITIL |
Information Technology Infrastructure Library |
| ITK |
Interoperability Toolkit |
| ITN |
Invitation To Negotiate |
| ITRS |
IT Research Services Framework |
| ITS |
Initial Tracing Service |
| ITSCM |
IT Service Continuity Management |
| ITT |
Invitation to Tender |
| ITU |
Intensive Therapy Unit |
| IWP |
Internet Watch Foundation |
| IYDS |
Integrated Youth Support & Development Service |
| JAM |
Just About Managing |
| JCF |
Joint Consultative Forum (formal communication with Union) |
| JCPE |
Joint Commissioning Partnership Executive |
| JDM |
Joint Decision Model (JESIP) |
| JE |
Job Evaluation |
| JESIP |
Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (NB all agencies) |
| JGPITC |
Joint GP IT Committee |
| JHSW |
Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy |
| JHWS |
Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy |
| JI |
Joining instructions |
| JNC |
Joint Negotiating Committee |
| JRF |
Job Request Form |
| JSG |
Joint Steering Group |
| JSNA |
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment |
| JTAI |
Joint Targeted Area Inspection |
| JUYI |
Joining Up Your Information |
| JVC |
Joint Venture Company |
| JWG |
Joint Working Group |
| K&I |
Knowledge and Intelligence |
| KPI |
Key Performance Indicator |
| KS1 |
Key Stage 1 |
| KS2 |
Key Stage 2 |
| KS3 |
Key Stage 3 |
| KS4 |
Key Stage 4 |
| KS5 |
Key Stage 5 |
| KSF |
Key Skills Framework |
| L&S |
Learning & Schools |
| LA |
Local Authority |
| LAB |
Local Area Bases |
| LAC |
Looked after Child/Children |
| LADO |
Local Authority Designated Officer |
| LAF |
Local Admissions Forum |
| LAIT |
Local Authority Interactive Tool |
| LAN |
Local Area Network |
| LARIA |
Local Area and Research Intelligence Association |
| LARs |
Large Account Resellers |
| LAT |
Local Area Team |
| LCA |
Logical Connection Architecture |
| LCFS |
Local Counter Fraud Specialist |
| LCT |
Local Children's Trust |
| LD |
Learning Difficulties |
| LD |
Learning Disability |
| LDISS |
Learning Disability Intensive Support Service |
| LDO |
Local Development Order |
| LDP |
Learning & Development Partnership |
| LDR |
Local Digital Roadmap |
| LEFM |
Local Economy Forecasting Model |
| LeGSB |
Local eGovernment Standards Body |
| LEO |
Local Engagement Officer |
| LEP |
Local Enterprise Partnership |
| LES |
Local Enhanced Service |
| LETB |
Local Education and Training Board |
| LGA |
Local Government Association |
| LGBT |
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender |
| LGE |
Local Government Employers |
| LGPS |
Local Government Pension Scheme |
| LHB |
Local Health Board |
| LHC |
Local Health Community |
| LHM |
Local Highways Manager |
| LHRP |
Local Health Resilience Partnership |
| LIMS |
Laboratory Information Management Systems |
| LINk |
Local Involvement NetworK |
| LIS |
Local Information Service |
| LKIS |
Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service (LKIS) |
| LLC |
Local Learning Community |
| LLE |
Local Leaders in Education |
| LLI |
Local Learning Inqiry |
| LLL |
Lifelong Learning |
| LMC |
Local Medical Committee |
| LMCS |
Lead Members for Children's Services |
| LMS |
Learning Management System |
| LOA |
Local Organisation Administrator |
| LOWCOV |
Low Coverage |
| LP |
Learning Platform |
| LPfIT |
London Programme for IT |
| LPG |
Liquid Petroleum Gas |
| LPSA |
Local Public Service Agreement |
| LRF |
Local Resilience Forum |
| LSCB |
Local Safeguarding Children Board |
| LSD |
Local Service Desk |
| LSHTM |
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
| LSOA |
Lower Super Output Area |
| LSP |
Local Strategic Partnership |
| LTC |
Long Term Condition |
| LTP |
Local Transport Plan |
| LWAB |
Local Workforce Advisory Board |
| LWTC |
Living Well Taking Control |
| LWWP |
Living Well With Pain |
| MACS |
Migration Analysis Cleansing Service |
| MAIC |
Multi-Agency Information Cell |
| MAIDeN |
Multi Agency Information Database for Neighbourhoods |
| MAPPA |
Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements |
| MASH |
Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub |
| MAU |
Medical Admission Unit |
| MBTI |
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator |
| MCAGG |
Mental Capacity Act Governance Group |
| MCP |
Multispecialty Community Provider |
| MDM |
Multi Disciplinary Meeting |
| MDT |
Multi-Disciplinary Team |
| MDTs |
Multi-Disciplinary Teams |
| MECC |
Making Every Contact Count |
| MGN |
Managers General Note |
| MHARS |
Mental Health Acute Response Unit |
| MHDNIN |
Mental Health Dementia and Neurology Intelligence Network |
| MHLDDS |
Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Dataset |
| MHMDS |
Mental Health Minimum Data Set |
| MHNA |
Mental Health Needs Analysis |
| MHRA |
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency |
| MHSDS |
Mental Health Services Data Set |
| MIIU |
Minor Injury and Illness Unit |
| MiR |
Making It Real |
| MIU |
Minor Injury Unit |
| MLE |
Managed Learning Environment |
| MOCH |
Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes |
| MOCS |
Making Our Communities Safer |
| MOEE |
Managing Our Environment and Economy |
| MoJ |
Ministry of Justice |
| MOMO |
Mind Of My Own app |
| MOU |
Memorandum Of Understanding |
| MPIP |
Managing Performance Improvement Procedure |
| MPS |
Market Position Statement |
| MPS |
Managed Print service |
| MRS |
Multi Resource Scheduling |
| MRSA |
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus |
| MSK |
Musculoskeletal |
| MSP |
Managing Successful Programmes |
| MSS |
Manager Self Service |
| MTC |
Meeting the Challenge (corportate cost saving programme) |
| MTC2 |
Meeting the Challenge 2 (Together we can) |
| MTFP |
Medium Term Financial Plan |
| MTFS |
Medium Term Financial Strategy |
| MTUs |
Mobile Training Units |
| MWaaS |
MiddleWare-as-a-Service |
| N3 |
N3 Network |
| N3SP |
N3 Service Provider |
| NA |
Not Available |
| NA |
Narcotics Anonymous |
| NAA |
National Assessment Agency |
| NAC |
National Addiction Centre |
| NACS |
National Administrative Codes Service, now known as ODS (=Organisation Data Service) |
| NAFLD |
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease |
| NAO |
National Audit Office |
| NAP |
National Adaptation Programme |
| NASCIS |
National Adult Social Care Intelligence Service |
| NATMS |
National Alcohol Monitoring Service |
| NBO |
National Back Office for the Personal Demographic Service |
| NBT |
North Bristol Trust |
| NBTC |
National Blood Transfusion Committee |
| NC |
No Crime |
| NCAS |
National Clinical Assessment Service |
| NCASC |
National Children and Adult Services (Conference) |
| NCER |
National Consortium for Examination Results (NCER) |
| NCGC |
National Clinical Guideline Centre |
| NCLs |
National Clinical Leads |
| NCLSCS |
National College for Leadership of Schools and Children's Services |
| NCMP |
National Child Measurement Programme |
| NCRI |
National Cancer Research Institute |
| NCVIN |
PHE's National Cardiovascular Intelligence Network |
| NDEC |
National Drug Evidence Centre |
| NDPP |
National Diabetes Prevention Programme |
| NDRI |
National Duplicate Registration Initiative |
| NDTMS |
National Drug Treatment Monitoring System |
| NE |
Not Entered |
| NEA |
National Energy Action |
| NEC |
Not Elsewhere Classified |
| NEET |
Not in education, employment or training |
| NEN |
National Education Network |
| NEPTS |
Non-Emergency Patient Transport |
| NeSS |
Neighbourhood Statistics |
| NEXUS |
NEXUS |
| NGDP |
National Graduate Development Programme |
| NHAIS |
National Health Applications & Infrastructure Services |
| NHS |
National Health Service |
| NHS CFH |
NHS Connecting for Health |
| NHS IMAS |
NHS Interim Management Team and Support |
| NHS SBS |
NHS Shared Business Service |
| NHSCR |
NHS Central Register |
| NHSD |
NHS Direct |
| NHSE |
NHS England |
| NHSG |
NHS Gloucestershire |
| NHSI |
NHS Improvement |
| NHSLA |
NHS Litigation Authority |
| NHSSC |
NHS Supply Chain |
| NICA |
National Integration Centre and Assurance |
| NICE |
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence |
| NICIP |
National Interim Clinical Imaging Procedure |
| NIGB |
National Information Governance Board |
| NIHCE |
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (formerly NICE) |
| NIHR |
National Institute for Health Research |
| NIMM |
NHS Infrastructure Maturity Model |
| NISP |
National Infrastructure Service Provider |
| NIV |
Non Invasive Ventilation |
| NLE |
National Leaders in Education |
| NLMS |
National Learning Management System |
| NLOP |
NPfIT (National Programme for IT) Local Ownership Programme |
| NLP |
Natural Language Processing |
| NMAS |
National Messaging Assurance Service |
| NMDS-SC |
National Minimum Data Set for Social Care |
| NME |
North, Midlands and East (Programme for IT) |
| NMLC |
National Laboratory Medicine Catalogue |
| NN4B |
NHS Numbers for Babies |
| NNM |
Nearest Neighbourhood Model |
| NOM |
New Operating Model |
| NOMS |
National Offender Management Service |
| NOR |
Number Of Roll - number of pupils in a school |
| NP |
Not Published |
| NPfIT |
National Programme for Information Technology |
| NPO |
National Power Outage |
| NPO |
LGA National Programme Office |
| NPOG |
National Programme Office |
| NPSA |
National Patient Safety Agency |
| NPSAG |
National Patient Safety Advisory Group |
| NQB |
National Quality Board |
| NRwS |
New Relationship with Schools |
| NS-SEC |
National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC) |
| NSCI |
National Serious Case Inquiry |
| NSF |
National Service Framework |
| NSG |
National Stakeholder Group |
| NSTS |
NHS Strategic Tracing Service |
| NSWWS |
National Severe Weather Warning Service |
| NTDA |
NHS Trust Development Authority |
| NUG |
National User Group |
| NVQ |
National vocational qualification |
| NWPHO |
North West Public Health Observatory |
| NWW |
NHS Wide Web |
| OA |
Osteoarthritis |
| OBC |
Outline Business Case |
| OBS |
Output Based Specification |
| OCCO |
Office of the Chief Clinical Officer |
| OCD |
Obsessive compulsive disorder |
| OCG |
Organised Crime Group |
| OCSI |
Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion |
| OD |
Organisational Development |
| ODPM |
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister |
| ODS |
Organisation Data Service |
| OECD |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OG |
One Gloucestershire |
| OGD |
Other Government Department(s) |
| OH |
Occupational Health |
| OJEU |
Official Journal of the European Union |
| OLAP |
On-line Analytical Processor |
| OLM |
Oracle Learning Management |
| OLT |
Operational Leadership Team |
| ONPOS |
Online Non Prescription Ordering Service |
| ONS |
Office for National Statistics |
| OOH |
Out of Hours |
| OOO |
Out of office |
| OPAC |
Online Public Access Catalogue |
| OPAL |
Older People’s Assessment and Liaison |
| OPCS |
Office for Population Censuses and Surveys Classification of Surgical Operations and Procedures |
| OPEX |
Operating Expenses |
| OPPO |
One Place Programme Office |
| ORAM |
Organisational Readiness Assurance Model |
| OSCHR |
Office for Strategic Co-ordination of Health Research |
| Osfsted |
Office for Standard in Education |
| OSMC |
Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee |
| OT |
Occupational Therapy |
| PA |
Persistent Absence |
| PaaS |
Platform as a Service |
| PAC |
Public Accounts Committee |
| PACC |
Personalised Alternative Curriculum Centre |
| PACS |
Primary and Acute Care System |
| PACS |
Picture Archiving and Communications System |
| PALS |
Patient Advice and Liaison Service |
| PAM |
Patient Activation Measure |
| PAM |
Patient Activity Measure |
| PANSI |
Projecting Adult Needs and Service Information |
| PAR |
Population Attributable Risk |
| PARR |
Patients At Risk of Re-Hospitalisation |
| PASA |
Purchasing and Supply Agency |
| PAU |
Paediatric Assessment Unit |
| PBC |
Practice-Based Commissioning |
| PBO |
Personal Demographics Service National Back Office |
| PbR |
Payment by Results |
| PCCAG |
Primary Care Clinical Audit Group |
| PCD |
Personal Confidential Data |
| PCIS |
Primary Care Information System |
| PCN |
Primary Care Network |
| PCO |
Primary Care Organisation |
| PCOS |
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome |
| PCT |
Primary Care Trust |
| PDA |
Pre-Determined Attendance |
| PDEE |
Patient Data Enquiry/Extract |
| PDG |
Programme Development Group |
| PDNA |
Physical Disability Needs Analysis |
| PDP |
Personal Development Plan |
| PDR |
Personal Development Review (appraisal) |
| PDS |
Personal Demographics Service |
| PDSA |
Plan Do Study Act |
| PDT |
Programme Delivery Team |
| PDU |
Problem Drug User |
| PEP |
Personal Education Plan |
| PEPPOL |
Pan-European Public Procurement Online |
| Performance Plus |
Corporate system monitoring key performance targets |
| PF1 |
Private Fostering |
| PFCC |
Patient and Family Centred Care |
| PFI |
Private Finance Initiative |
| PH |
Public Health |
| PHB |
Personal Health Budget |
| PHBs |
Personal Health Budgets |
| PHE |
Public Health England |
| PHI |
Professionalising Health Informatics |
| PHOF |
Public Health Outcomes Framework |
| PHORCaST |
Public Health Online Resource for Careers, Skills and Training |
| PHSO |
Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman |
| PI |
Performance Indicator |
| PIAG |
Patient Information Advisory Group |
| PID |
Programme/Project initiation document |
| PID |
Person Identifiable Data |
| PID |
Project Initiation Document |
| PING |
Physical Inclusion Network Gloucestershire |
| PIP |
Public Information Programme |
| PIP |
Prescription Improvement Plan |
| PIRU |
Policy Innovation Research Unit |
| PKI |
Public Key Infrastructure |
| PLACE |
Patient Led Assessments of the Care Environment |
| PLIMS |
Pathology Laboratory Information System |
| PMI |
Patient Master Index |
| PMIP |
Pathology Messaging Implementation Programme |
| PMO |
Programme Management Office |
| PNC |
Police National Computer (PNC) |
| POA |
Power of Attorney |
| PoC |
Proof of Concept |
| POET |
Personal Outcomes Evaluation Tool |
| POPPI |
Projecting Older People Population Information |
| PPE |
Patient Participation And Engagement |
| PPG |
Patient Participation Group |
| PPI |
Patient and Public Involvement |
| PPM |
Pupil Projection Model |
| PPMA |
Public Sector People Managers Association |
| PR |
Parental Responsibility |
| PrEP |
Pre Exposure Prophylaxis (PREP) |
| PRINCE |
PRojects In Controlled Environments (IT Project Management for government |
| PRINCE2 |
Update of PRINCE for wider use |
| PRISM |
LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans) staff community |
| PRN |
Person Record Number |
| PRS |
Pupil Referral Service |
| PRSSU |
Personal Social Services Research Unit |
| PRU |
Pupil Referral Unit |
| PSA |
Public Service Agreement |
| PSED |
Public Sector Equality Duty (under the Equality Act 2010) |
| PSHE |
Personal Social Health Education |
| PSIS |
Personal Spine Information Service |
| PSN |
Public Services Network |
| PSP |
Prescribing Support Pharmacist |
| PSR |
Priority Services Register (utility companies register of vulnerable customers) |
| PSS-EX1 |
Personal Social Services: Expenditure and Unit Costs return (PSS-EX1) |
| PSSEXE |
Personal and Social Services Expenditure |
| PSSRU |
Personal Social Services Research Unit |
| PST |
Prescribing Support Technician |
| PTAC |
Patient Transport Assessment Centre |
| PTL |
Patient Tracking List |
| PWC |
Prevention, wellbeing and Communities |
| PWS |
Public Weather Service |
| Q&A |
Questions and Answers |
| Q&GC |
Quality and Governance Committee (GCCG) |
| QA |
Quality Account |
| QDA |
Qualitative Data Analysis |
| QIA |
Quality Impact Assessment |
| QIPP |
Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention |
| QMAS |
Quality Management and Analysis System |
| QOF |
Quality Outcome Framework (Assessor Validation Reports) |
| QSG |
Quality Surveillance Group |
| QTS |
Qualified Teacher Status |
| R&D |
Research & Development |
| RA |
Registration Authority |
| RACI |
Responsible Accountable Consulted Informed |
| RADS |
Regional Affective Disorders Outpatient Service |
| RAG |
Red Amber Green |
| RAISE |
Reporting and Analysis for Improvement through school Self-Evaluation |
| RAP |
Referrals, Assessments & Packages of Care (Statutory Return) |
| RAS |
Referral Assessment Service |
| RBAC |
Role-Based Access Control |
| RCGP |
Royal College of General Practitioners |
| RCP |
Royal College of Physicians |
| RCV |
Reducing Clinical Variation |
| RD |
Resilience Direct |
| RDBMS |
Relational Database Management System |
| RDS |
Records Disclosure Service |
| Reablement |
Short term intervention to support a service user regain their independence |
| REABS |
Review of Executive, Administrative and Business Support |
| RED |
Resilience and Emergencies Division (DCLG) |
| RFA |
Requirements for Accreditation Scheme |
| RFC |
Request for change |
| RFID |
Radio Frequency identification |
| RNF |
Relative Need Formulae |
| RO |
Residence order |
| ROCR |
Review of Central Returns Steering Committee |
| Role Profile |
Document combining job description and person specification |
| ROPA |
Record of Processing Activities |
| ROTL |
Released on Temporary Licence |
| RSG |
Resources Steering Group |
| RSI |
Repetitive Strain Injury |
| RTC |
Road Traffic Collision |
| RTI |
Respiratory Tract Infection |
| RTT |
Referral to Treatment |
| S113 |
Joint working agreement/protocol under the 1972 Local Government Act |
| SA |
Suspected Arson |
| SAB |
Safeguarding Adults Board |
| SAC |
Safeguarding Adults Collection |
| SACE |
Personal Social Services Survey of Adult Carers in England |
| SAD |
Seasonal Affective Disorder |
| SALT |
Short And Long-Term return (new activity report adult social care) |
| SAML |
Security Assertion Mark-up Language |
| SAP |
Systems, Applications & Products in data processing |
| SAP |
Single Assessment Process |
| SAR |
Subject Access Request |
| SAR |
Safeguarding Adults Return |
| SARC |
Sexual Assault Referral Centre |
| SARS |
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome |
| SARs |
Standardised Admission Ratios |
| SAU |
Surgical Admission Unit |
| SCAG |
NHS Security and Confidentiality Advisory Group |
| SCAN |
Specialist Clinical Addiction Network |
| SCB |
Schools Commissioning Board |
| SCCAG |
Southern Combined Clinical Advisory Group |
| SCG |
Strategic Coordinating Group (Multi- Agency Gold) |
| SCIE |
Social Care Institute for Excellence |
| SCITT |
School Centred Initial Teacher's Training |
| SCOMUG |
SCOMIS User Group |
| SCR |
Summary Care Record |
| Scrutiny |
Part of Council's democratic governance process |
| SCS |
Senior Civil Service |
| SDIP |
Service Development Improvement Plan |
| SDO |
Senior Designated Officer |
| SDP |
School Development Plan |
| SDQ |
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire |
| SDS |
Spine Directory Service Bureau Service |
| SDS |
Self Directed Support |
| SEAL |
Social & Emotional Aspects of Learning |
| SEAP |
Support, Empower, Advocate, Promote |
| SEBD |
Social & Emotional Behaviour Development |
| SEEFA |
South East England Forum on Ageing |
| SEF |
Self Evaluation Forms |
| SEN |
Statement of Educational Needs |
| SEN |
Special educational needs |
| SEND |
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities |
| SEO |
Search Engone Optimisation (ensures web pages appear on Google etc) |
| SEU |
Social Exclusion Unit |
| SFG |
Schools Finance Group |
| SFR |
Statistical First Release |
| SGO |
Special Guardianship Order |
| SHA |
Strategic Health Authority |
| SHE |
Safety, Health and Environment |
| SHIP |
Shire Hall Information Point |
| SHLAA |
Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment |
| SHOT |
Serious Hazards of Transfusion |
| SHREWD |
Single Health Resilience Early Warning Database |
| SIF |
Systems Interoperability Framework |
| SIMS |
Schools Information Management System |
| SIO |
School Improvement Officer |
| SIP |
School Improvement Partner |
| SIRO |
Senior Information Risk Officer |
| SIRTs |
Service Issues Resolution Team |
| SIs |
Statutory Instruments |
| SISU |
Special Incident Support Unit |
| SITREPs |
Situation Reports |
| SLA |
Service Level Agreement |
| SLSS |
School Leadership Support Service |
| SMART |
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely (of goals or objectives) |
| SMCs |
Supply Management Confederations |
| SMMGP |
Substance Misuse Management in General Practice |
| SMRAP |
Supplier Maintenance Release Assurance Procedure |
| SMT |
Senior Management Team |
| SNA |
Strategic Needs Analysis |
| SNAT |
Strategic Needs Analysis Team |
| SNOMED CT |
Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms |
| SNPP |
SubNational Population Projection(s) |
| SOC |
Strategic Outline Case |
| SOC |
Serious Organised Crime |
| SODA |
Strategic Organisational Development Adviser |
| SOF |
Schools Organisation Forum |
| SP |
Small Percentage |
| SP |
Supporting People |
| SPA |
Single Point of Access |
| SPA |
Structured Processional Assessment |
| SPC |
Statistical Process Control |
| SPCA |
Single Point of Clinical Access |
| SPEC COM |
Specialised Commissioning |
| SPF |
Sender Policy Framework |
| SPfIT |
Southern Programme for IT |
| SPN |
Safer Practice Notice |
| SPOT |
Spend and Outcome Tool |
| SRF |
Self Review Framework |
| SRG |
System Resilience Group |
| SRO |
Senior Responsible Owner |
| SROI |
Social Return on Investment |
| SRSHN |
South Region Sustainability and Health Network |
| SSD |
Systems and Service Delivery |
| SSRG |
Social Services Research Group |
| SSRI |
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor |
| St |
Stroud |
| STAR PU |
Specific Therapeutic Age-Sex Related Prescribing Units |
| STEP |
Standards Enforcement in Procurement |
| STEPS |
Short-term Emergency Placements Scheme (fostering) |
| STF |
Sustainability Transformation Fund |
| STI |
Sexually Transmitted Infection |
| STP |
Sustainability and Transformation Partnership/Plan |
| STPCD |
School Teachers Pay & Conditions Document |
| SU |
Service User |
| SUG |
Special User Group |
| SUPP |
Suppressed |
| SUS |
Secondary Uses Service |
| SW |
Social Worker |
| SWASNHSFT/ SWAST |
South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust |
| SWAST |
South Western Ambulance Service Trust |
| SWB |
Subjective Wellbeing |
| SWCP |
South West Coaching Pool |
| SWGfL |
South West Grid for Learning |
| SWISH |
South West Information Sharing Hub |
| SWOT |
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opprotunities, Threats |
| SWPHO |
South West Public Health Observatory |
| SYOA |
Single Year Of Age |
| T&L |
Teaching and Learning |
| T&O |
Trauma and Orthopaedics |
| TA |
Teaching Agency |
| TA |
Teaching Assistant |
| TAC |
Team Around the Child |
| TAF |
Team Around the Family |
| TAG |
Technical Advisory Group |
| TAMP |
Transport Asset Management Plan |
| TAP |
Training Application Performance |
| TATT |
Tired All The Time |
| TB |
Tuberculosis |
| TCG |
Tactical Coordinating Group (Multi-Agency Silver) |
| TDB |
Tracking Database |
| TERS |
Testing Environments and Related Services |
| Tew |
Tewkesbury |
| Thin Client |
Desk top computer |
| TIA |
Transient Ischaemic Attack |
| Timeframe |
System to monitor time spent by employees on specific tasks |
| TISP |
Targeted Intervention in Schools Programme |
| TL |
Team Leader |
| TLAP |
Think Local Act Personal |
| TLR |
Teaching & Learning Responsibility |
| TM |
Team Manager |
| TMS |
Transaction Messaging Service |
| TOP |
Treatment Outcomes Profile |
| ToR |
Terms of Reference |
| TRC |
Training Resource Centre |
| TRO |
Traffic Regulation Order |
| TRUD |
Technology Reference Data Update Distribution |
| TSA |
Teaching Standards Agency |
| TSG |
Terminology Steering Group |
| TSS/TSR |
Temporary Staff Service/Register |
| TTA |
Tablets to Take Away |
| TUO |
Tell Us Once |
| TUPE |
Transfer of undertaking protection of employment regulations |
| TWOC |
Taking Without Owner's Consent |
| TWR |
Two-Week referral |
| UASC |
Unaccompanied Asylum Seeker Child / Children |
| UBRN |
Unique Booking Reference Number |
| UC |
Universal Credit |
| UCLH |
University College London Hospital |
| UICC |
International Union against Cancer |
| UKChip |
UK Council for Health Informatics Professions |
| UKCRC |
UK Clinical Research Collaboration |
| UKTC |
UK Terminology Centre |
| UoG |
University of Gloucestershire |
| UPS |
Upper Pay Scale |
| URL |
Website Address (Uniform Resource Locator) |
| URN |
Unique Reference Number |
| URP |
User Role Profile |
| UTC |
University Technical College |
| UTC |
Urgent Treatment Centre |
| UTMG |
Unattached Teachers Management Group |
| VA |
Value added |
| VAWG |
Violence against women and girls |
| VC |
Video Conferencing |
| VCS |
Voluntary and Community Sector |
| VCSA |
Voluntary Community Sector Alliance |
| VDI |
Virtualised Desktop Infrastructure |
| VERTO |
Corporate system for managing projects / programmes |
| VIP |
Voluntary, Independent and private (sector) |
| VLE |
Virtual Learning Environment |
| VoIP |
Voice over internet protocol technology |
| VP |
Vulnerable People |
| VPC |
Vulnerable People Cell |
| VPN |
Virtual Private Network |
| VR |
Voluntary Redundancy |
| VR/VER |
Voluntary redundancy/Voluntary Early Retirement |
| VRQ |
Vocationally related qualification |
| VSM |
Very Senior Manager |
| VSNAG |
Voluntary Sector National Advisory Group |
| WAH |
Working at home |
| WAN |
Wide Area Network |
| WCPP |
World Class Primary Programme |
| WDR |
Learning Management System providers |
| WEAHSN |
West of England Academic Health Science Network |
| WECR |
We Care and Repair |
| WEMWBS |
The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) |
| WFH |
Work From Home |
| WHHP |
Warm Homes Healthy People |
| WPLS |
Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study |
| WRES |
Workforce Race Equality Standard |
| WTE |
Whole Time Equivalent |
| XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
| YEN |
Young Employees Network |
| YJB |
The Youth Justice Board for England and Wales |
| YTD |
Year To Date |
| ZBR |
Zero Based Review |
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