| Abbreviation/term | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| ICS | Integrated Care System |
ICSs are partnerships that bring together providers and commissioners of NHS services, across a geographical area with local authorities and other local partners, to collectively plan and integrate care to meet the needs of their population |
| SYB | South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw | The term often used to refer to the Integrated Care System in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw. |
| A&E | Accident and Emergency | Often used to refer to the emergency care department in a hospital. |
| ACP | Accountable Care Partnership | ACPs are alliances of NHS providers which seek to work together to deliver care through collaboration with providers including hospitals, mental health services and GP practices among others. Some ACPs may extend to social care and independent and third sector providers as well. |
| ACS | Accountable Care System | Term used previously to describe Integrated Care Systems, in which ACS' take the lead in planning and commissioning care for their populations and providing system leadership. |
| AHP | Allied Health Professionals |
AHPs provide system-wide care to assess, treat, diagnose and discharge patients across social care, housing, education, and independent and voluntary sectors. Through adopting an holistic approach to healthcare, AHPs are able to help manage patients’ care throughout the life course from birth to palliative care. Their focus is on prevention and improvement of health and wellbeing to maximise the potential for individuals to live full and active lives within their family circles, social networks, education/training and the workplace. |
| BME / BAME | Black Minority Ethnic / Black and Minority Ethnic |
Terms widely used by NHS, government departments, public bodies, the media and others when referring to ethnic minority groups. |
| CCG | Clinical Commissioning Group |
Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) commission most of the hospital and community NHS services in the local areas for which they are responsible. Commissioning involves deciding what services are needed for diverse local populations, and ensuring that they are provided. CCGs are assured by NHS England, which retains responsibility for commissioning primary care services such as GP and dental services, as well as some specialised hospital services. Many GP services are now co-commissioned with CCGs. All GP practices now belong to a CCG, but CCGs also include other health professionals, such as nurses. Services CCGs commission include:
- NHS England, 2020 |
| CP | Citizen's Panel |
A Citizens' Panel is a large, demographically representative group of citizens regularly used to assess public preferences and opinions. - Involve.org |
| EDI | Equality, Diversity and Inclusion | The NHS has an Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Framework which has been developed to address existing health inequalities in compliance with the Equality Act 2010. |
| ED | Emergency Department | Used interchangeably for Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments. |
| EPR | Electronic Patient Record | EPR is a high-tech electronic patient record system which aims to modernise and improve the way patient information is transferred and delivered across NHS Trusts to provide better patient care. |
| FT | Foundation Trust | NHS FT's are a different type of NHS organisation with a stronger local influence.
Foundation trust hospitals are still part of the NHS and continue to treat patients according to NHS principles of free healthcare according to need. |
| GP | General Practitioner | GPs provide ongoing medical care for patients in the community and are typically a patient's first point of contact. GPs will most likely see patients in their surgery, at patients home or within other settings such as health centres and/or care homes. |
| HASU | Hyper Acute Stroke Unit |
HASUs bring together stroke experts and specialist stroke equipment under a single venue to provide world-class treatment - 24 hours a day. HASUs aim to significantly reducing death rates and long-term disability from strokes. |
| Healthwatch | n/a | The independent national champion for people who use health and social care services, using feedback from communities to find out what matters to people, and help make sure their views shape the support they need. |
| HEG | Health Executive Group | HEG is a formal committee consisting of health and care leaders from across NHS organisations to discuss key matters around finance, operational delivery (including capacity and performance) and new initiatives and developments on the horizon. |
| HWB | Health Wellbeing Board |
Health and wellbeing boards are a formal committee of the local authority charged with promoting greater integration and partnership between bodies from the NHS, public health and local government. They have a statutory duty, with clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), to produce a joint strategic needs assessment and a joint health and wellbeing strategy for their local population. |
| ICP | Integrated Care Pathway | ICPs are structured multidisciplinary care plans which outline key steps in the care of patients with a specific clinical problem. |
| JC CCG | Joint Committee of Clinical Commissioning Groups |
JCCCG committee meetings will be responsible for making decisions about any future proposals referred to it by Clincial Commissioning Groups. Decisions will be referred to this committee if they require a South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw (SYB) approach, but most decisions about healthcare will continue to be taken locally. The committee is held in public and chaired independently of the health organisations. The JCCCG consists of GPs and lay members from each of the Clinical Commissioning Groups in SYB. Chief Executives from councils, representatives from district Councils and local Healthwatch also attend the meetings. |
| Lived experience | n/a | Personal knowledge about the world gained through direct, first-hand involvement in everyday events rather than through representations constructed by other people. It may also refer to knowledge of people gained from direct face-to-face interaction rather than through a technological medium. - Oxford Reference, 2021 |
| LRF | Local Resilience Forum |
LRFs are multi-agency partnerships made up of representatives from local public services, including the emergency services, local authorities, the NHS, the Environment Agency and others. These agencies are known as 'Category 1 Responders', as defined by the Civil Contingencies Act. |
| LTP | NHS Long-Term-Plan |
The NHS LTP (formerly known as the 10-year plan) was published setting out key ambitions for the service over the next 10 years |
| MHLT | Mental Health Liaison Team | MHLT's are often Multi-Disciplinary Teams that provide mental health assessments to patients or new presenting people with mental health problems. |
| NHS E/I | NHS England and NHS Improvement | NHS E/I is a non-departmental body in England, responsible for overseeing the NHS' foundation trusts and NHS trusts, as well as independent providers that provide NHS-funded care. |
| Partners / partnerships | n/a | A partnership is an arrangement where parties, known as business or working partners, agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests. |
| PHE | Public Health England | PHE is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care, and a distinct organisation with operational autonomy providing government, local government, the NHS, Parliament, industry and the public with evidence-based professional, scientific expertise and support. |
| Primary Care |
Primary care services provide the first point of contact in the healthcare system, acting as the ‘front door’ of the NHS. Primary care includes general practice, community pharmacy, dental, and optometry (eye health) services. - NHS England |
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| PCN | Primary Care Network |
Primary care networks (PCNs) enable general practices to work together at scale leading to coordinated approaches around locality practices - including improving the ability of practices to recruit and retain staff; to manage financial and estates pressures; to provide a wider range of services to patients and to more easily integrate with the wider health and care system. |
| SCT | Social Care Trust | An organisation in the NHS that provides health and care support. Working closely with local authorities, SCT's may carry out a range of services, including social care, mental health services and primary care support. |
| STP | Sustainability Transformation Partnership |
STP stands for Sustainability and Transformation Partnership. These are areas covering all of England, where local NHS organisations and councils drew up shared proposals to improve health and care in the areas they serve. STPs were created to bring local health and care leaders together to plan around the long-term needs of local communities. They have been making simple, practical improvements like making it easier to see a GP, speeding up cancer diagnosis and offering help faster to people with mental ill health In some area, STPs have evolved to become ‘integrated care systems’, a new form of even closer collaboration between the NHS and local councils. The NHS Long Term Plan set out the aim that every part of England will be covered by an integrated care system by 2021, replacing STPs but building on their good work to date. - NHS England, 2020 |
| Transformation | n/a | Means a change of form - used to mean rapid or dramatic change within a health and care setting |
| UEC | Urgent and Emergency Care |
UEC services perform a critical role in keeping the population healthy. Both urgent and emergency care services play a specific part in supporting patients to receive the right care, by the right person, as quickly as possible. To help relieve pressure on A&E departments and to ensure patients get the right care, it is important to understand the difference between urgent and emergency care
With increasing pressure on emergency services, and as technology and the needs of the population change, the UEC system must also change to ensure a service fit for the future. |
| WRES |
Workforce Race Equality Standard |
Implementing the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) is a requirement for NHS commissioners and NHS healthcare providers including independent organisations, through the NHS standard contract as part of aims to improve the (equal) access to career opportunities and fair treatment in the workplace among employees from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds. |
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