Common NHS Terms

ASI – Appointment Slot Issues
AMU – Acute Medical Unit
DNA – Do Not Attends
CARR – Coding and Activity Relative Risk Report
Episode – One consultant throughout the sickness/ illnesss
CCG – Clinical Commissioning Groups
CDS-  Commissioning Data Sets
CSU- Clinical Service Units (used in our reports etc , used in our context)
CSU – Commissioning Support Units (as general in the context of NHS)
CIP – Cost Improvement Plan
CTC – Community Treatment Centre or Cardio Thoracic Center, Basildon
CSS – Clinical Support Services (previously Integrated Core Services) (one of the Divisional Directorate Trust)
DGH- District General Hospital
DNA – Do Not Attends
DTA- Decision to Admit
DTOC – Delayed Transfer Of Care
EBITDA – Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization
EM – Emergency
EMR – Electronic Medical Records
EPMA – Electronic Prescribing and Medicine Administration
EPR – Electronic Patient Record  – BTUH is using Medway EPR
FCE- Finished Consultant Episode
FFCE – First Finished Consulatant Episode
HDU – High Dependency Unit
HRG – Healthcare Resource Group
KPI -Knowledge Performance Indicator
IST – Intensive support Team
Local code for specialty used only in BTUH
LOS – Length Of Stay
MARS – Mortality and Activity Review System
MRSA – Meticillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureusis
Main specialty code is a specialty code, there is also Treatment Specialty Code / Treatment Function Code
http://www.datadictionary.nhs.uk/web_site_content/supporting_information/main_specialty_and_treatment_function_codes_table.asp?shownav=1
NHSID – Nationality code for specialty used all over the NHS in UK
NCAA – National Clinical Assessment Authority
NICU – Neonatel Intesive Care Unit
OPWL  -Outpatient Waiting Lists
PLICS – Patient Level Information and Costing Systems
Provider – Care Centre  can be hospital or other care centres
PTL – Patient Tracking Lists
RPRT – Right place Right Time
RTT- Referral to Treatment
ROTT – Removal other than treatment
SHMI – Summary Hospital level Mortality Indicator
SLA – Service Level Agreement
SSNDS – Specialised Services National Definition Set
HSMI – Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio
Spell – The whole stay in hospital is called a spell. A spell can have multiple episodes
SUS – Secondary User Services
Treatment Specialty Code / Treatment Function Code are two specialty code, there is also a main specialty code
Symphony-Ascribe Symphony (A&E) Emergency and unscheduled / Software/IT System
UNIFY2 -main online data collection portal to collect and share performance information, aggregate data and statutory returns.
VTE – venous thromboembolism