Glossary
The NHS and government run on acronyms.
Here are a few common acronyms and abbreviations to help everyone’s understanding in the workplace.
Departments / organisations
- AOMRC
- Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
- BEIS
- Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- BMA
- The British Medical Association
- CCG
- Clinical Commissioning Group
- CPA
- Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
- CSU
- Commissioning Support Unit
- DAC
- Digital Accessibility Centre
- DCMS
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- DfE
- Department for Education
- DfT
- Department for Transport
- ‘DHSC’ or ‘DH’ or ‘DoH’
- Department of Health and Social Care
- DWP
- Department for Work and Pensions
- GP
- General Practitioner (Doctor) / General Practice
- HMRC
- His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs
- HO
- Home Office
- ICS
- Integrated Care System
- IHPN
- Independent Healthcare Provider Network
- LGA
- Local Government Association
- MOJ
- Ministry of Justice
- MTI
- Medical Training Initiative
- NCF
- National Care Forum
- NCSC
- National Cyber Security Centre
- NHS
- National Health Service
- NHSBSA
- National Health Service Business Services Authority
- NIST
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (US)
- PCN
- Primary Care Network
- STP
- Sustainability and Transformation Partnership
- UKHCA
- United Kingdom Homecare Association
- UKHSA
- United Kingdom Health Security Agency
- ‘UKV&I’ or 'UKVI’
- UK Visas and Immigration
Job role / disciplines
- BA
- Business Analyst
- BE Dev
- Backend Developer
- CD
- Content Designer
- Dev
- Developer
- DM
- Delivery Manager
- FE Dev
- Frontend Developer
- IxD
- Interaction Designer
- MHFA
- Mental Health First Aider
- PE or DevOps
- Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer
- PM
- Project Manager
- PO
- Product Owner
- SD
- Service Designer
- TM
- Team Manager
- UCD
- User Centered Design
Teams
- CCS
- Contact Centre Services
- DDaT
- Digital, Data and Technology
- SIAM
- Service Integration and Management
- T&P
- Technical and Procedural
- CI
- Customer Insight
- IG
- Information Governance
- IS
- Information Security
- SecOps
- Security Operations
- SHE
- Safety, Health and Environment
Services / Projects
Citizen Services
- AIE
- Am I Exempt?
- CRA
- Citizen Rights Agreement
- BLC
- Baby Loss Certificate
- DCR
- Death Certificate Reform
- DECS
- Dental Exemption Checking Service
- EC
- Exemption Checker
- EHIC
- European Health Insurance Card
- EIBSS
- England Infected Blood Support Scheme
- HES
- Health Exemption Services
- HRT PPC
- Hormone Replacement Therapy Prescription Prepayment Certificate
- HS
- Healthy Start
- HwHC
- Help with Health Costs
- IHS
- Immigration Health Surcharge
- LIS
- Low Income Scheme
- PECS
- Prescription Exemption Checking Service
- PPC
- Prescription Prepayment Certificate
- PS
- Patient Services
- MATEX
- Maternity Exemptions
- MCCD
- Medical Certificate of Cause of Death
- MEDEX
- Medical Exemptions
- MES
- Medical Examiners Service
- OHS
- Overseas Healthcare Services
- OHS-CR
- Overseas Healthcare Services Cost Recovery
- RTEC
- Real Time Exemption Check
- TECS
- Transforming Exemption Checking Services
- UK GHIC
- UK Global Health Insurance Card
- VDPS
- Vaccine Damage Payment Service
Workforce Services
- ESR
- Employment Staff Record
- LSF
- Learning Support Fund
- NHSJ
- NHS Jobs
- NHSV
- NHS Volunteering
- SB
- Student Bursaries
- SWB
- Social Work Bursaries
Primary Care Services
- BMS
- Branded Medicines Service
- CDR
- Common Drug Reference
- DaSH
- Discontinuations and Shortages Portal
- DMD
- Dictionary of Medicines and Devices
- DPC
- Direct Payments to Contractors
- MMP
- Medicines Management Portal
- MYS
- Manage Your Service
Software / resources
- DWH
- Data warehouse
- eOPS
- Business Intelligence system for ophthalmic data (eye care)
- ePACT2
- Business Intelligence system for prescribing and cost data
- GA
- Google Analytics
- KB
- Knowledge Base
- MESH
- Message Exchange for Social Care and Health
- RINA
- Reference Implementation for National Applications
- SCRa
- Summary Care Record application
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