TERM | DEFINITION |
AAT | Alcohol Action Teams (formerly AMCCs, Alcohol Misuse Coordinating Committees) set up in 1989 to promote local co-ordination in the prevention and treatment of alcohol problems. Membership varies with local need but will generally include representatives from health service, local authority, voluntary sector, the business community, drinks industry and the police |
CAMHS | Child and Adolescent Mental Health services. A comprehensive Child and Adolescent Health Service will operate at a number of levels: - Tier 1 deals with the problems, which require non-psychiatric professional help at the primary care level, in schools, or in the wider community. The aims of tier 1 are mental health promotion, early screening for high risk children and support and training for primary health care teams, community child health teams, teachers, social work staff and others who work with young people.
- Tier 2 deals with the more serious problems, which require the intervention of professionals with specialist knowledge of child mental health in support of tier 1 care staff. The aims are individual professional work in response to referrals.
- Tier 3 deals with serious and complex disorders, which require the specialist help of a multi-professional care team, with the young person or family seen in out-patients. The aims of the work are to provide multi-professional specialist child and adolescent psychiatry service.
- Tier 4 deals with extremely severe and complex problems, which have failed to respond to help at the other levels and need specialist facilities such as in-patient or day patient. The aims of the tier are to provide services for these young people and children through in-patient or secure provision, and very specialist inputs for special needs.
At each Tier health workers must relate closely to their counterparts in social work and education. |
Child Health Surveillance | Systematic assessment of child health and development with the aim of detecting abnormalities and defects. |
Clinical Supervision | A formal process of professional support and learning which enables individual practitioners to develop knowledge and competence, assume responsibility for their own practice and enhance consumer protection and safety of care in complex clinical situations. |
CHD | Coronary Heart Disease |
CMO | Community Medical Officer. Provides the medical contribution to school health teams |
CPD | Continuing Professional Development |
CPN | Community Psychiatric Nurse |
DAT | Drug Action Team. Local strategic planning bodies for tackling drug misuse, comprising senior representatives from all key agencies, including local authorities, police, the NHS, prisons and voluntary sector. |
Governance Frameworks | A system for ensuring public accountability for the safety and quality of services. Within the NHS there are systems for; corporate governance, clinical governance: http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/gghb/depts/dph/clngovrn.htm staff governance http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/sehd/publications/dc20020208sgss.pdf and research governance: http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/cso/localimplementationsplansguidance.doc |
HEBS | Health Education Board for Scotland. Scotland's national body for health education, promotion advice and information. In April 2003 PHIS and HEBS will together form a new organisation responsible for supporting health improvement across Scotland. |
Health for all Children | The fourth edition of "Health for all children" sets out to answer two |
(HALL 4) | questions posed on behalf of parents - "What health care programmes are available to promote my child's health and development, and which are effective". The report is base on evidence of effectiveness and expert opinion on best practice and sets out a proposed programme of child health promotion and surveillance. www.healthforallchildren.co.uk |
Health Promoting Schools | Stems from the European Network of Health Promoting Schools, which was launched in 1992 by WHO. The network encourages schools to adopt a holistic approach to health promotion, prioritising it within the curriculum, the environment of the school, it's ethos and it's links with the local community. Working towards achievement of Health Promoting School status is a key requirement for New Community Schools. To support this development the Health Promoting Schools Unit was established in 2002 in partnership with Scottish Executive, HEBS, Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) and Learning and Teaching Scotland. |
Healthy Respect | One of four health demonstration projects established following publication of Towards a Healthier Scotland to act as a learning and teaching resource for the rest of Scotland. Implications for policy and practice will be identified, enabling local successes to lead to national change. www.show.scot.nhs.uk/demonstrationprojects Based in Lothian, Healthy Respect aims to help young people develop a positive attitude to their sexuality and that of others, and a healthy respect for their partners, with the aim of reducing unplanned teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. www.healthy-respect.com |
ICT | Information and Communications Technology |
LHCCs | Voluntary groupings of primary health care professionals working to strengthen and develop the local delivery of services. LHCCs have a growing role in developing partnerships to address the health needs of local communities. |
Looked After Children | Children who are looked after by the local authority. A joint SWSI/HMI Report, Learning with Care, on educational experiences of looked after children recognised that they are a particularly vulnerable group who need additional support to achieve their full potential. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/education/lacr-00.asp |
National Dental Inspection Programme | A national programme of oral examinations carried out at key stages in primary school in Scotland. The Programme provides an assessment of oral disease risk for parents and contributes aggregated, anonymised information on population risk for planners of healthcare. |
New Community Schools | A radical initiative which has the twin aims of promoting social inclusion and raising educational standards in schools in Scotland. The Scottish Executive Education Department have committed to rolling out the 62 pilot projects to cover all Scottish schools by 2007. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/education/ncs5-00.asp |
NES | NHS Education for Scotland was established as a Special Health Board on 1st April 2002. The new body builds on the work of former organisations responsible for the post registration education of nurses, midwives, doctors, dentists and pharmacists, extending its activities to cover all staff groups. Its aim is to promote best practice in the education and lifelong learning of all NHS staff. www.nes.scot.nhs.uk |
NMC | The Nursing and Midwifery Council is a UK-wide organisation set up by Parliament to ensure nurses, midwives and health visitors provide high standards of care to their patients and clients. To achieve its aims, the NMC: - maintains a register of qualified nurses, midwives and health visitors;
- sets standards for education, practice and conduct;
- provides advice for nurses, midwives and health visitors;
- considers allegations of misconduct or unfitness to practise due to ill health.
www.nmc-uk.org |
Personal Learning Plan | In its Programme for Government, April 1999, the Scottish Executive committed itself to providing Personal Learning Plans to map out a pathway to achievement for every pupil in Scotland, in order to ensure that all children fulfil their potential in school. The Personal Learning Plan will form a single continuous record and action plan for learning. Personal Learning Plans are now incorporated into the Assessment is for Learning development programme. Roll-out of the programme, including Personal Learning Plans, will start in session 2003-2004. http://www.ltscotland.com/assess |
Personal Development Plans | Learning Together requires that all employees of NHSScotland should have a Personal Development Plan that outlines their personal development needs and is based upon the needs of the service. www.scotland.gov.uk/learningtogether |
PHIS | Public Health Institute for Scotland. Set up by the NHS to serve the whole public health community with particular focus on information, evidence and skills, making links with the many individuals and organisations working towards health improvement in Scotland. www.phis.org.uk In April 2003 PHIS and HEBS will together form a new organisation responsible for supporting health improvement across Scotland. |
Physical Activity Task Force | Towards a Healthier Scotland (1999) committed to establishing a National Physical Activity Task Force (PATF). The PATF was convened in June 2001 and reported in June 2002 Scottish Ministers will publish their response in February 2003. The overall aim of the Task Force was to consider and make recommendations on a strategy for increasing physical activity in Scotland. More specifically its remit was to investigate and recommend ways to: - Raise physical activity levels in all age groups in Scotland
- Use physical activity to reduce health inequalities
- Ensure that the relevance of physical activity to raising and maintaining the quality of life for all age groups is fully recognised
- Promote physical activity as enjoyable and accessible
- Increase uptake in sustainable forms of physical activity
- Identify the scope of joint working with the relevant agencies at a policy and practice level in pursuit of these objectives
- Advise on how current services, facilities and programmes can be used to better effect and where further investment should be concentrated
- * Set national targets for physical activity
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Public Health Nurse | Nurse who has completed the specialist practitioner degree course in public health nursing. Established in 2001, this new programme brings together school nursing and health visiting into a single discipline. |
Public Health Practitioner | LHCC based lead for health improvement activity. PHPs act as a champion for health improvement activity, support and develop partnerships with local communities and agencies and act as a catalyst for local change and development in response to need. |
School Cluster | Organisational grouping of schools which typically includes a secondary school and the primary schools that filter into it. |
School Development Plans | Education Authorities are responsible for ensuring that a development plan and a summary are prepared for each school. The content of these is outlined in sections 6 and 7 of the Standards in Scotland's Schools etc Act 2000 which can be found at: www.hmso.gov.uk/legislation/scotland/acts2000/20000006.htm |
School Health Profiles | Will bring together information and statistics from a variety of sources to provide a summary of health status and health needs of the school population. PHIS will undertake the development of a common framework for School Health Profiles. |
School Nursing Leaders | Senior professional staff responsible for the leadership and development of local services. |
SNAGs | School Nutrition Action Groups. Multi-agency group involving pupil and catering representatives in addition to parents and school management set up within schools to tackle food related education and health issues and promote healthier eating in schools. |
SNAP | The Scottish Needs Assessment Programme (part of PHIS) assesses the need for interventions to improve health, encompassing the need for change in all aspects of living and all professions or services that may be relevant to improving health. SNAP aims to contribute to work on improving health status and building health alliances as well as informing the planning process for health services. www.phis.org.uk |
Special Educational Needs | Special educational needs arise from difficulties in learning or barriers to learning. Some of these difficulties may be intellectual in origin or, they may arise from an inappropriate curriculum. Pupils with sensory impairments and physical disabilities may have barriers to learning, although intellectually they may be very able. A full account of special educational needs can be found in the HMI publication Effective Provision for Special Educational Needs available on http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library/documents6/epsen.pdf The 1980 Education Act set out requirements to provide assessment, recording and provision for children with special educational needs. The arrangements for supporting children with Special Educational Needs were recently reviewed, with proposals to modernise the system set out in Assessing our children's educational needs: the way forward?www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations/education/acen-00.asp A draft Bill, the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Bill, has been published and is the subject of consultation. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations/education/deasl-00.asp This draft Bill has been accompanied by the publication of a framework document Moving Forward! Additional Support for Learning.http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/education/mfas-00.asp |