Brook | Brook Advisory Service. Contraception and
pregnancy counselling service for young people
(now known in Scotland as Caledonia Youth) |
c:card | Condom card - a system giving young people
free access to condoms on presentation of a
card |
EWRASAC | Edinburgh Women's Rape and Sexual Abuse
Centre (formerly Edinburgh Rape Crisis
Centre) |
EYSIP | Edinburgh Youth Social Inclusion
Partnership |
GP | General practitioner - a local family
doctor |
GU | Genitourinary |
GUM | Genitourinary Medicine. Clinics dealing with
STIs are commonly known by the shorthand of GUM
Clinics |
HEBS | Health Education Board for Scotland.
Government-funded health improvement agency,
now known as NHS Health Scotland |
HOT | Health Opportunities Team (host organisation
for component project J, Young Men's Sexual
Health) |
LGBT | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender. LGBT
Scotland - an organisation working for young
people in these categories (formerly known as
Stonewall Youth) |
LH | Lothian Health (managing agency for Healthy
Respect) |
LHCC | Local Health Care Co-operative. These are
area groupings within which GPs, practice
nurses, health visitors and other practitioners
are based with the aim of organising joined up
services. |
LPCNT | Lothian Primary Care NHS Trust |
LUHNT | Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust |
MYPAS | Midlothian Young People's Advisory
Service |
NGOs | Non-Governmental Organisations |
Partners | The participating organisations (statutory
and voluntary) which hosted the Healthy Respect
component projects were designated as
'partners' |
PHACE | Promoting Health and Challenging
Exclusion |
PSE | Personal and Social Education, a segment of
the curriculum in which sexual health education
is often lodged |
PTKs | Postal testing kits (for chlamydia) |
SCRO | Scottish Criminal Record Office. Agency
which checks the credentials and criminal
record of anyone wanting to work in proximity
with children and young people |
SHARE | Sexual Health and Relationship Education |
SIP | Social Inclusion Partnership, an
organisation funded on a temporary basis by
government |
STIs | Sexually transmitted infections (formerly
often known as STDs) |
Stonewall | Now known as LGBT Youth |
WHEC | Wester Hailes Education Centre |
WLDAS | West Lothian Drug and Alcohol Service |