A&E | Accident and Emergency |
ACMP | Advisory Committee for Malaria Prevention |
AHP | Allied Health Profession(al) |
ART | Anti-retroviral therapy |
ASU | Acute Stroke Unit |
CABG | Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting |
CEHAPE | Children's Environmental Health Plan for Europe |
CFR | Case Fatality Rate |
CJD | Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
CHD | Coronary Heart Disease |
CHI | Community Health Index |
CHP | Community Health Partnership |
COSLA | Convention of Scottish Local Authorities |
CT | Computerised Tomography |
CtOG | Closing the Opportunities Gap |
DNA | Deoxyribonucleic acid |
EARSS | European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System |
ECCI | Electronic Clinical Communications Implementation |
EHS3 | Environmental Health Surveillance System for Scotland |
ENSHURE | Enhanced Surveillance of Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome |
eSCRIPS | electronic Scottish Consultant Review of In-Patient Statistics |
FHN | Family Health Nurse |
FSA | Food Standards Agency |
GP | General Practitioner |
GPASS | General Practice Administration System for Scotland |
GROS | General Register Office for Scotland |
GUM | Genito-urinary medicine |
HAI | Healthcare Associated Infection |
HBSC | Health Behaviour in School-aged Children |
HCV | Hepatitis C virus |
HDL | Health Department Letter |
HIV | Human Immunovirus |
HMCI | Her Majesty's Chief Inspector |
HPA | Health Protection Agency |
HPAI | Highly pathogenic avian influenza |
HPS | Health Protection Scotland |
HUS | Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome |
ICU | Intensive Care Unit |
IDU | Injecting drug user |
ILI | Influenza-like illness |
IM&T | Information Management and Technology |
IPD | Invasive pneumococcal disease |
IQ | Intelligence Quotient |
IR | Incidence Rate |
ISD | Information and Statistics Division |
IT | Information Technology |
JCVI | Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation |
M | Million |
MCN | Managed Clinical Network |
MMR | Measles, mumps, rubella |
MPH | Miles per hour |
MRSA | Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus |
MSM | Men who have sex with men |
MVPA | Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity |
NCDDP | National Clinical Datasets Development Programme |
NES | NHS Education for Scotland |
NHS | National Health Service |
NHS QIS | NHS Quality Improvement Scotland |
NINSS | Nosocomial Infection National Surveillance Scheme |
NNIS | National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance |
NPfIT | National Programme for Information Technology |
P@H | Play at home |
PACS | Picture Archiving and Communication Systems |
PAS | Parenting across Scotland |
PCI | Percutaneous coronary intervention |
PHIS | Public Health Institute of Scotland |
PHLS | Public Health Laboratory Service |
RCP | Royal College of Physicians |
SCI | Scottish Care Information |
SCI-DC | Scottish Care Information-Diabetes Collaboration |
SCIEH | Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health |
SCOTH | Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health |
SEHD | Scottish Executive Health Department |
SEISS | Scottish Environmental Incident Surveillance System |
SERVIS | Scottish Enhanced Respiratory Virus Surveillance |
SFSS | Scottish Food Surveillance System |
SHAW | Scotland's Health at Work |
SHOT | Serious Hazards of Transfusion |
SIGN | Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network |
SMMDG | Scottish Multiprofessional Maternity Development Programme |
SNOMED-CT | Standard Nomenclature for Medical Codes-Clinical Terms |
SSHAIP | Scottish Surveillance of HAI Programme |
SSI | Surgical site infection |
STI | Sexually transmitted infection |
TSO | The Stationery Office |
TIA | Transient ischaemic attack |
TTP | Thrombocytopaenic purpura |
UK | United Kingdom |
US | United States |
vCJD | variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
WHO | World Health Organization |