AMR | Antimicrobial resistance |
ASH | Action on Smoking and Health |
BSE | Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy |
CFR | Case Fatality Ratio |
CHD | Coronary Heart Disease |
CJD | Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
CMO | Chief Medical Officer |
CMP | Clinical Management Plan |
CNORIS | Clinical Negligence and Other Risks Indemnity Scheme |
CRAG | Clinical Research and Audit Group |
CSA | Common Services Agency |
CSBS | Clinical Standards Board for Scotland |
CSO | Chief Scientist Office |
DGH | District General Hospital |
ECG | Electrocardiogram |
EGHOP | Expert Group on Healthcare of Older People |
ENSHURE | Enhanced Surveillance of Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome |
ESMI | Enhanced Surveillance of Mycobacterial Infection |
ETS | Environmental tobacco smoke |
F | Female |
GMS | General Medical Services |
GP | General Practitioner |
GROS | General Register Office for Scotland |
GUM | Genitourinary Medicine |
HAI | Healthcare Associated Infection |
HEBS | Health Education Board for Scotland |
HCV | Hepatitis C Virus |
HDL | Health Department Letter |
HPA | Health Protection Agency |
HTBS | Health Technology Board for Scotland |
IDU | Injecting drug user |
ISD | Information and Statistics Division |
LBC | Liquid based cytology |
M | Male |
MCN | Managed Clinical Network |
MMR | Mumps, measles, rubella |
MRSA | methicillin resistant
Staphylococcus aureus |
NDIP | National Dental Inspection Programme |
NES | National Health Service Education for Scotland |
NHS | National Health Service |
NHS QIS | National Health Service Quality Improvement Scotland |
NICE | National Institute for Clinical Excellence |
NMPDU | Nursing and Midwifery Practice Development Unit |
NPSA | National Patient Safety Agency |
NRT | Nicotine Replacement Therapy |
PATH | Partnership on Tobacco and Health |
PET | Positron Emission Tomography |
PHIS | Public Health Institute of Scotland |
RARARI | Remote and Rural Areas Resource Initiative |
SARS | Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome |
SASM | Scottish Audit of Surgical Mortality |
SCOTH | Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health |
SCIEH | Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health |
SEHD | Scottish Executive Health Department |
SHAS | Scottish Health Advisory Service |
SHEFC | Scottish Higher Education Funding Council |
SHOW | Scotland's Health on the Web |
SIGN | Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network |
SIP | Social Inclusion Partnership |
SMC | Scottish Medicines Consortium |
SNAP | Scottish Needs Assessment Programme |
SSHAIP | Scottish Surveillance of Healthcare Associated Infection Programme |
STI | Sexually Transmitted Infection |
TB | Tuberculosis |
TSE | Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy |
TTP | Thrombotic thrombocytopaenic purpura |
UK | United Kingdom |
USA | United States of America |
vCJD | variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
WHO | World Health Organization |