Acute Services | Care and treatment generally associated with that provided by clinicians in hospital |
AHP | Allied Health Professions |
Assessment | The work that staff do to understand how to treat, care for and support someone |
CHD | Coronary Heart Disease |
Clinical Goverance | clinical governance is defined as corporate accountability for Governance clinical performance. It is and initiative to assure and improve clinical standards at a local level and throughout the NHS. |
CMO | Chief Medical Officer for Scotland |
CNO | Chief Nursing Officer for Scotland |
Community Care | Care, particularly for older people, people with learning and/or physical disabilities or mental illness, which is provided outside a hospital setting. This is increasingly being understood as care provided in patients' own homes, but may also include care delivered in a nursing or residential care home |
Continuing Care | Ongoing nursing and/or medical help |
CRAG | Clinical Resource and Audit Group |
CSBS | Clinical Standards Board for Scotland |
CSO | Chief Scientist Office |
GP | General Practitioner |
HEBS | Health Education Board for Scotland |
ISD | Information and Statistics Division |
JFG | Joint Future Group |
LHC | Local Health Council |
LHCC | Local Health Care Co-operative |
NHS | National Health Service |
Palliative Care | Managing care for someone who is not going to get better |
Primary Care | Family Health Services provided by family doctors, dentists, pharmacists, optometrists and opthalmic medical practitioners |
R&D | Research and Development |
RARARI | Remote and Rural Areas Resource Initiative |
Rehabilitation | a process aiming to restore personal autonomy in those aspects of daily living considered important by patients or service users, and their family carers |
SEHD | Scottish Executive Health Department |
SHAS | Scottish Health Advisory Service - an independent body, originally set up in 1970, and reporting to the First Minister, SHAS exists to help improve the quality of health service care and the quality of life for people with mental illness; people with a learning disability or physical disability; and frail older people |
SHOW | Scottish Health on the web:
www.show.scot.nhs.uk |