Non-Graphical version
Scottish Executive Previous page Contents page Next Page

Review of the Public Health Function in Scotland

ABBREVIATIONS

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 Scientist’s 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

  Previous page Contents page Next Page