In the course of my care.data research, I have come across words I didn’t know, terms with different meaning from everyday context, and abbreviations and acronymns enough to make your eyes water.
For my own sake, I’m going to note them down now as I go, especially those I use in my posts and didn’t know before. Feel free to suggest some. If they help anyone else, more’s the better. Links behind where appropriate.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) have their own list of acronymns, many of which I refer to often. I can only apologise but working in tech, projects are full of them.
Ping-pong refers to parliamentary legislation and its approval process between House of Lords and the Commons
AQP Any Qualified Provider
API Application Programming Interface
ASCOF Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework
CCG Clinical Commissioning Group
COF Commissioning Outcomes Framework
CPRD Clinical Practice Research Datalink
CQC Care Quality Commission
CQRS Calculating Quality Reporting Service
CSU Commissioning Support Unit
DH Department of Health
DH ERD Department of Health External Relations Directorate
DHID/NHS CFH Department of Health
Informatics Directorate including NHS
Connecting for Health
DME Data Management Environment
DMIC Data Management Integration Centre
DMS Defence Medical Services
ENDPB Executive non-Departmental Public Body
ESR Electronic Staff Record
GIA Grant in Aid funding
GP General Practitioner
GPES GP Extraction Service
GPSoC GP Systems of Choice (Link for local GP IT systems)
GSS Government Statistics Service
HEE Health Education England
HES Hospital Episodes Statistics
HQIP Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership
HR Human Resources
HSCIC Health and Social Care Information Centre
HWE Healthwatch England
IAPT Improving Access to Psychological Therapies
ICT Information and Communications Technology
IG Information Governance
ISCG Informatics Services Commissioning Group (since May 2014 called NIB instead)
IT Information Technology
LSP Local Service Providers
MHRA Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
NASCIS National Adult Social Care Intelligence Service
NHS CB NHS Commissioning Board
NICE National Institute for Clinical and Healthcare Excellence
NIHR National Institute for Health Research
NTDA National Trust Development Authority
ODS Organisation Data Service
PACS Picture Archiving and Communication System
PbR Payment by Results
PCD Personal Confidential Data
PCT Primary Care Trust
PHE Public Health England
PSN Public Sector Network
QOF Quality Outcomes Framework
SCR Summary Care Record
SCS Senior Civil Service
SHA Strategic Health Authority
SRO Senior responsible Officer
SUS Secondary Uses Service
VSM Very Senior Manager (!)
Small selection of care.data relevant websites:
Official care.data page
Dr.Bhatia’s care.data info page
MedConfidential
Health and Social Care Information Centre
-HSCIC Systems
– HSCIC Data Linkage and Extract Service
– HSCIC Data sets – what is collected
– HSCIC FOI log (Freedom of Information – up to date until September 2013)
