BMA British Medical Association
CADO Chief Administrative Dental Officer (of a Health Board in Scotland; a function now subsumed into the job descriptions of Consultants in Dental Public except in the three Island Health Boards where the function remains separate)
CAMO Chief Administrative Medical Officer (of a Health Board in Scotland; a function now incorporated with that of Director of Public Health)
CD&EH communicable disease and environmental health
CDPH Consultant in Dental Public Health
CDSC Public Health Laboratory Service Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre
CoSLA Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
CMO Chief Medical Officer of the Scottish Executive Health Department
CRAG Clinical Resource and Audit Group
CSO Chief Scientists Office (Scottish Executive)
DMO Designated Medical Officer (to the local authority, under the terms of the National Health Service (Scotland) Acts of 1972 and 1978).
DPH Director of Public Health (of one of the 15 Health Boards in Scotland)
FPHM Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the UK Royal Colleges of Physicians
GDC General Dental Council
GMC General Medical Council
HEBS Health Education Board for Scotland
ISD Information & Statistics Division of the Common Services Agency
LHCC Local Health Care Co-operative (of a Primary Care NHS Trust)
MDPHF UK Multidisciplinary Public Health Forum
MRC Medical Research Council
NHSiS National Health Service in Scotland
OPHIS Office of Public Health in Scotland
PHPU the Public Health Policy Unit of the Scottish Executive Health Department
RIPHH Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene
SCIEH Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health
SCPHMCH Scottish Committee for Public Health Medicine and Community Health a "craft" committee of the British Medical Association representing all doctors in these specialties
SCPMDE Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical & Dental Education
SEHD Scottish Executive Health Department
SEPA Scottish Environment Protection Agency
SHTAC Scottish Health Technology Assessment Centre
SIGN Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
SNAP - Scottish Needs Assessment Programme
SPHMEG Scottish Public Health Medicine and Environment Group