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C

C/P Chest Pain

C & A Child & Adolescent

C & B Choose and Book

C&C Command and Control

or Counsel and Care

C & R Control & Restraint

C1-7 Cervical spine bones (in the neck)

C2H5OH +++ Drunk

CA Cancer

or Countryside Agency

or Conjoint Analysis

or California

or Canada

CAA Comprehensive Area Assessment

CAAC Consultant Advisory Appointment Committee

CAB Citizens Advice Bureau

CABA Compressed Air Breathing Apparatus

CABG Coronary Artery Bypass Graft

CABE Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment

CAD Control and Despatch

CADISAP Coronary Artery Disease in South Asians Project

CADO Chief Administrative Dental Officer

CAEF Clinical Audit and Effectiveness Forum

CAF Charities Aid Foundation

or Common Assessment Framework

CAFCASS Children And Family Court Advisory Support Service

CAIT Citizens Advocacy Information and Training

CALL Cancer Aid Listening Line

CAM Complementary and Alternative Medicine

or Community Affairs Manager

CAMHS Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services - Joint Local and Health Authority services to young people with mental health problems

CAMO Chief Administrative Medical Officer

CAMS Computer Aided Medical Systems

CAN Community Action Network

CANO Chief Area Nursing Officer

CAOx4 Conscious, Alert, and Oriented x4

CAP Common Agricultural Policy

or Communities Against Poverty

or Community Acquired Pneumonia

or Code of Audit Practice

CAPD Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis for people with kidney failure

CAPM Capital Asset Pricing Model

CAPO Chief Administrative Pharmaceutical Officer

CAPS Crown Agents Purchasing Services Ltd

CAPT Childhood Accident Prevention Trust

CARE Clinical Audit and Research Evidence

or Craniofacial Anomalies Register

CAS Care Assessment Schedule

or Chemical Abstracts

or Community Accountancy Service

or Controls Assurance Statement

or Continence Advisory Service

or Central Alert Service

CASE Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion

CASH Consensus Action on Salt and Health

or Contraception & Sexual Health

CASP Critical Appraisal Skills Programme

CASPE Clinical Accountability Service Planning and Evaluation

CAT Computerised Axial Tomography - a scanning technology

or Critically Appraised Topic

or Community Alcohol Team

CATS Credit Accumulated Transfer Scheme

or Clinical Assessment Treatment Service

CAWG Controls Assurance Working Group

CB Citizen's Band radio

CB& CN Challenging Behaviour and Complex Needs

CBA Cost Benefit Analysis

CBC Confirming Business Case

CBI Confederation of British Industry

CBIS Capacity Building Infrastructure Strategy

CBIT Capacity Building Implementation Team

CBN Capacity Building Network

CBRN Chemical, Biological, Radioacative and Nuclear

CBS Commissioning Business Service

CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

or Computer Based Training

or Call to Balloon Time

or Concessionary Bus Travel

CC County Council

or cum cibis - with food

or Chief Complaint

or City Council

or Charity Commission

or Capital Charge

or Community Care

CC&H(S) Community Care and Housing (Services)

CCA Cost-Consequence Analysis

or Current Cost Accounting

or Civil Contingencies Act 2004

CCAB Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies

CCAD Central Cardiac Audit Database

CCB Critical Care Bed

CCBR Community Capacity Building Review

CCBT Computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

CCC NHS Centre for Coding and Classification

or Civil Contingencies Committee

or Command and Control Coordination

CCCG Cochrane Colorectal Cancer Group

CCD Civil Contingencies Division

CCDC Consultant in Communicable Disease Control

CCDG Core Clinical Development Group

CCE Completed Consultant Episode - the same as an FCE

CCEPP Cochrane Collaboration on Effective Professional Practice - now called EPOC

CCETSW Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work (abolished October 2001)

CCG Community Care Grant

CCHD Community Care & Housing Department

CCHR Citizens Commission on Human Rights

CCHS Community Child Health Services

CCN County Councils' Network

or Change Control Notice

CCNT Community Children’s Nursing Team

CCP Community Care Plan

or Change Control Procedure

or Critical Care Practitioner

CCR Cross Cutting Review

or Coordinated Community Response

or Community Care Records

CcRISP Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient

CCS Civil Contingencies Secretariat

or Critical Care Support

CCSC Central Consultants and Specialists Committee

CCSI Critical Care Skills Institute

CCSR Cross Cutting Spending Review

CCST Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training for junior doctors

CCT Compulsory Competitive Tendering A sort of Dutch Auction of public services, now partly replaced by the Best Value process

CCTH Care Closer To Home

CCTR Cochrane Controlled Trials Register

CCTV Closed Circuit TeleVision

CCU Coronary care unit

CD Clinical Director

or Clinical Directorate

or Civil Defence

or Cluster of Differentiation

or Corporate Development

or Community Development

or Controlled Drug

CDAD Clostridium Difficile Associated Disease

CD-ROM Compact Disc Read Only Memory

CDC Corporate & Democratic Core

or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

or Council for Disabled Children

CDDS Council of Deans of Dental Schools

CDER Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

CDG Community Development Group

or Consortia Development Grant

CDHN Community Development and Health Network

CDM Chronic Disease Management

or Construction, Design and Management

CDNA Community and District Nursing Association

CDO Chief Dental Officer

CDOP Child Death Overview Panel

CDRP Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership

CDS Contract Data Set - A collection of information recorded by the NHS Trust that identifies a patient and their treatment which is sent to the Health Authority

or Community Dental Service

CDSC Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre now the HPA Centre for Infections

CDSM Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials (abolished 1994)

CDSR Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

CDTT Community Dementia Treatment Team

CDU Child Development Unit

or Central Delivery Unit

or Colourflow Duplex Ultrasound

or Clinical Decision Unit

CDX Community Development Exchange

CE Chief Executive

CEA Cost Effectiveness Analysis

CED Community Economic Development

CEDC Community Education Development Centre

CEEU Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit of the RCP

CEF Community Empowerment Fund

or Corporate Equalities Forum

CEFET Central England Forum for European Training

CEMACH Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health

CEMD Confidential Enquiry Into Maternal Deaths (obs)

CEMVO Council of Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector Organisations

CEN Community Empowerment Network

CEO Chief Executive Officer

or Community Engagement Officer

CEPOD Confidential Enquiry into Peri-Operative Deaths

CEPU Central Emergency Planning Unit (OFMDFM)

CERA Capital Expenditure, Revenue Account

CERES Consumers for Ethics in Research (archived)

Cert HSM Certificate in Health Services Management

CES Charities Evaluation Services

CESDI Confidential Enquiry into Sudden Deaths of Infants

CESH National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide By People With Mental Illness

CESG Communications Electronics Security Group

CET Community Engagement Team

CETV Cash Equivalent Transfer Value

CEWG Clinical Excellence Working Group

CF Cystic Fibrosis

or Contestability Framework

CFA Combined Fire Authority

CFC Chlorofluorocarbon

CFF Crime Fighting Fund

CfH Connecting For Health

CFI Community Finance Initiative

CFISSA Centrally Funded Initiatives and Services and Special Allocations

CFN Community Foundation Network

CFO Chief Finance Officer or

Conventionally Financed Option or

Co-Financing Public Sector Intermediary Organisation

CFOA Chief Fire Officers Association

CFOS Counter Fraud Operational Services

CfPS Centre for Public Scrutiny

CFR Capital Financing Reserve

or Community First Responder

or Case Fatality Rate

CFRC Children and Family Resource Centre

CFS Chronic Fatigue Syndrome closely associated with ME

CFSMS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service

CG Clinical Governance

CGC Clinical Governance Committee

CGD Chronic Granulomatous Disease

CGF Child Growth Foundation

CGI Common Gateway Interface

CGR Clinical Governance Review

CGST Clinical Governance Support Team

CGSU Clinical Governance Support Unit

CH Community Hospital

CHAI Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection (abolished)

or Comprehensive Health Impact Assessment

CHAIN Contact Help Advice and Information Network

CHAOS Chief Has Arrived on the Scene

CHART Community Health Action Resource Team

CHB Chirurgiae Baccalaureus Basic surgical degree not usually seen by itself without the MB

CHC Community Health Council (now only in Wales)

or Community Health Centre

or Continuing Health Care

CHD Coronary Heart Disease - a group of clinical syndromes including angina pectoris, acute myocardial infarction and sudden ischaemic death

CHDGP Collection of Health Data from General Practice project

CHDRH Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital NHS Trust

CHEC, Cancer Help (for Minor) Ethnic Communities

CHESTCombined Higher Education Software Team

CHEX Community Health Exchange

CHF Congestive Heart Failure

CHG Community Hospitals Group (now taken over by BUPA)

CHI Commission for Health Improvement (obs)

or Community Health Index

CHIA Comprehensive Health Impact Assessment

CHIME Centre for Health Informatics in Medical Education

CHIP City Housing Improvement Plan

CHIQ Centre for Health Information Quality (obs)

CHIR Canadian Institutes of Health Research

CHIRP Confidential Human Factors Incident Reporting Procedure

ChM Chirurgiae Magister (Master of Surgery)

CHMS Council for Heads of Medical Schools

CHMU Central Health Monitoring Unit (obs)

CHNT Christies Hospital NHS Trust

CHOU Central Health Outcomes Unit

CHP Community Health Partnership

or Combined Heat and Power

or Continuing Health Care Panel

or Cossham Hospital Project

CHRA Cardiovascular Health Risk Assessment

CHRC Community Health and Resource Centres

CHRE Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence now Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence

CHS Community Health Services

or Chest Heart and Stroke

or Centre for Horizon Scanning, University of Birmingham

or Child Health Surveillance

CI Clinical Indicator

CIA Chief Internal Auditor

CIC Common Information Core or

Charitable Incorporated Organisation

or Caring In Confidence

CIEH Chartered Institute of Environmental Health

CIL Centre for Independent Living

CIM Capital Investment Manual

CIMA Chartered Institute of Management Accountants

CIMP Clinical Information Management Programme

CIMS Coalition for Improving Maternity Services

CINAHL Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health

CIO Confederation of Indian Organisations or

Charitable Incorporated Organisation

CIOT Chartered Institute of Taxation

CIP Cost Improvement Programme

CIPD Chartered Institute of Personnel Development

CIPFA Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountancy

CIPG Community Investment Partnership Group

CIPMT Commissioning, Implementation & Performance Management Team

CIPS Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply

CIS Clinical Information System

or Commonwealth of Independent States (republics of former USSR)

CISH Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Mental Health

CISIG Coastal Issues Special Interest Group

CIT Capacity Implementation Team

CITU Central Information Technology Unit - (obs)

CIVS Central Intravenous Addiction Service

CIX The Commercial Internet eXchange Association

CJC Commissioning Joint Committee

CJD Creutzfeld Jacob Disease

CJIP Central Justice Intervention Project

CJIT Criminal Justice Integrated Team

CJS Criminal Justice System

CKD Chronic Kidney Disease

CL Cash Limit

CLA Commissioner for Local Administration (the ombudsman)

CLAPA Cleft Lip and Palate Association

CLDT Community Learning Disability Team

CLG Communities & Local Government

CLGMS Cash Limited General Medical Services

CLib Cochrane Library

CLIC Cancer & Leukaemia in Children

CLIMP Clinical Information Management Programme

CLIP Central-Local Information Partnership

or CLinical Improvements Database

CLL Chronic Low Life

CLP Constituency Labour Party

or Central-Local Partnership

CLS Community Legal Service

CM Community Midwife

or Community Matron

or Complaints Manager

or Care Management

CMA Cost Minimisation Analysis

CMAJ Canadian Medical Association Journal

CMAP Care Management Advocacy Project

CMB Central Midwives Board (obs)

cm cras mane - tomorrow morning

CMD Continuing Medical Development

or Common Mental Disorder

CME Continuing Medical Education

CMF Capital Modernisation Fund

CMG Crisis Management Group

or Core Management Group

CMHN Community Mental Handicap Nurse (obsolete)

CMHSD Centre for Mental Health Services Development, Kings College London

CMHT Central Manchester Healthcare Trust

or Community Mental Health Team

CML Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia

CMMC Central Manchester and Manchester Children's NHS Trust

CMMS Case Mix Management System

CMO Chief Medical Officer

or Clinical Medical Officer

or Community Medical Officer

CMP Civilian Medical Practitioner

or Carbon Management Programme

CMPCT Central Manchester PCT

CMPS Centre for Management and Policy Studies

CMR Cancer Mortality Rate

CMS Capacity Management System

or Cerner Millennium Systems

CMT Corporate Management Team

CMV cytomegalovirus

CN Charge Nurse

or Community Nurse

or Carers Network

CNA Community Nursing Assessment

CNM Clinical Nurse Manager

CNN Cable Network News

CNO Chief Nursing Officer

CNS Central Nervous System

or Clinical Nurse Specialist

or Community Nursing Service

CNST Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts

CO Cabinet Office

or Course Organiser

or Complains Of

or carbon monoxide

or Chief Officer

or Capital Out-turn

CO2 carbon dioxide

COAD Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease - usually called COPD

CoAg Countryside Agency

COBR Cabinet Office Briefing Room

COCH Countess of Chester Hospital

COCP Cabinet Office Code of Practice

COG Clinical Outcome Guidance

COGPED Committee of General Practice Education Directors

COGIT Chief Officers’ Group of Information Technology

COI Central Office of Information

COIN Circulars On the INternet: All the HSCs etc (obs)

or Clinical Oncology Information Network (obs)

COMA Committee on Medical Aspects of Nutrition (abolished 2000)

COMAH Control of Major Accidents & Hazards

COMARE Committe on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment

COMEAP Committee On the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants

COPC Community Oriented Primary Care

COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

COPDenD Conference of Postgraduate Dental Deans

COPE Committee on Publication Ethics

COPMED Conference of Postgraduate Medical Deans

COR Capital Out-turn & Receipts return

CORE Clinical Outcomes Research and Effectiveness

COREC Central Office for Research Ethics Committees

CoRRS Community Rehabilitation & Reintegration Services

COSHH Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations

COT Committee on Toxicity

CP Cerebral palsy

or Community Plan

or Communist Party

or Child Protection

CPA Care Programme Approach Patients needs for care are assessed on a four point scale Level 4 means that you are dangerously ill and need supervision Level 1 means that you are not thought to need anything more than a bit of advice and counselling

or Comprehensive Performance Assessment

or Clinical Pathology Accreditation

or Commission for Public Appointments

or Complaints Procedure Advocacy

CPAG Child Poverty Action Group

or Capital Prioritisation Advisory Group

CPAP Continuous Positive Airway Pressure

CPB Capital Programme Board

CPC Cost Per Case

CPCCH Consultant Paediatrician in Community Child Health

CPCME Centre for Postgraduate and Continuing Medical Education

CPCU Child Protection Co-ordination Unit

CPD Continuing Professional Development

CPEP Clinical Practice Evaluation Programme

CPF Community Projects Fund

CPFA Charted Public Finance Accountant

CPGB Communist Party of Great Britain - an organisation with ambitions to change the world and with the appearance but not the reality of democratic control - just the like the NHS

CPH Certificate in Public Health

CPHL Central Public Health Library

CPHM Certified Professional in Healthcare Materiel Management

CPHVA Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association - part of Unite

CPI Clinical Performance Indicators

CPLP Contact Point & Lead Professional

CPMA Capital Programme Management Audit

CPMP Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products

CPN Community Psychiatric Nurse

CPNA Community Psychiatric Nurses Association - now the Mental Health Nursing Association

CPNS Community Psychiatric Nursing Service

CPO Chief Pharmaceutical Officer

CPOD Centre for Professional and Organisational Development

CPP Chest Pain Programme

CPPIH Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health (abolished)

CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation - what the crash team does, or you can learn to do it yourself

or Come Put-em-ta Rest

or Capital Payments & Receipts return

or Child Protection Register

CPRE Council for the Protection of Rural England

CPS Crown Prosecution Service

CPSM Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine

CPU Contracts & Purchasing Unit

or Central Processing Unit

CPWP Capital Programmes Working Party

CQC Care Quality Commission

CQUIN Commissioning for Quality and Innovation

CQSW Certificate of Qualification of Social Work abolished 1989

CR Cardiac Rehabilitation

CR Carers Register

CRAG Charging for Residential Accommodation Guide Guidance for local authorities on community care financial assessment

Or Clinical Resource and Audit Group, now part of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland

CRAGPIE Committee of Regional Advisers in General Practice Education (obs)

CRANE Craniofacial Anomalies Register

CRASH

CRAFT Can't Remember a Fucking Thing

CRB Criminal Records Bureau

CRC Clinical Research Centre

or Cancer Research Campaign

CRCF Conference of Royal Colleges and their Faculties

CRD Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

CRDC Central Research and Development Committee

CRE Commission for Racial Equality

CRED Clinical Governance/Education and R&D subgroup

CRES Cash Releasing Efficiency Savings

CRG Clinical Reference Group

CRHP Council for the Regulation of Healthcare Professionals

CRHTT Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team

CRIO Chief Registration & Inspection Officer

CRIP Common Recognised Information Picture

CRL Capital Resource Limit

CRMD Cochrane Review Methodology Database

CRP C-Reactive Protein

CRR Community Risk Register

CRS Care Records Service

CRSS Cardiac Rehab Service Standards

CRT Community Rehabilitation Team

or Cathode Ray Tube

or Coalfields Regeneration Trust

CRU Civil Renewal Unit (Home Office)

CS Capital Strategy

or Communications Strategy

or Community Safety

CSA Child Support Agency

or Care Standards Act 2000

CSAG Clinical Standards Advisory Group

CSASHS Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service

CSC Community Sector Coalition

CSCI Commission for Social Care Inspection now part of Care Quality Commission

CSCM Civil Service Corporate Management

CSCO Coterminous Social Care Organisation

CSD Carbonated Soda Drinks

CSDM Commissioning Service Development Manager

CSDS Chipping Sodbury Day Services

CSEC Corporate Specialist Education Committee

CSEDP Care Services efficient delivering programme

CSF Cerebro-spinal Fluid or

Community Support Framework

or Children Schools & Families

CSIA Central Sponsor for Information Assurance

CSIP Care Services Improvement Partnership (abolished)

CSM Committee on the Safety of Medicines

or Christian Socialist Movement

CSMC Civil Service Management Committee

CSMH Chipping Sodbury Memorial Hospital

CSO Civil Society Organisation (or NGO)

CSP Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

or Children's Services Plan

CSPG Central Support Protection Grant

CSR Comprehensive Spending Review

CSS Certificate of Satisfactory Service

or Cascading Style Sheets

or Children's Social Services

or Clinical Support Services

CSSD Central Sterile Supplies Department

or Central Support Service Department

CST Corporate Sustainability Team

CSV Community Service Volunteers

CT Computerised tomography - a scanning technology

CTA Community Transport Association (UK )

CTAC Community Technical Aid Centre

CTB Council Tax Benefit

or Children’s Trust Board

CTBSL Council Tax Benefit Subsidy Limitation

CTD Close To Death

or Circling The Drain

CTEU Clinical Trials Evaluation Unit

CTG cardiotocography electronic measurement of fetal heart and uterine contractions

or Community Transport Group

CTI Computers in Teaching Initiative (abolished 1999)

CTL Clinical Team Leader

CTN Charity Trustees Network

or Call to Needle (time)

CTO Compulsory Treatment Order

CTPLD Community Team for People with Learning Disabilities

CTS Community Toilet Scheme

CTSS Council Tax at Standard Spending

CTT Community Treatment Team

CU Casualties Union

or Credit Union

CUA Cost-Utility Analysis

CUBA Counties that Used to Be Avon

CUE Community Unit for the Elderly

CURS Centre for Urban and Regional Studies

CUV Current Use Value

CV Curriculum Vitae A list of your qualifications and achievements

CVA Cardio-Vascular Accident - a stroke

or Comprehensive Vascular Assessment

CVC Cardio & Vascular Coalition

CVCP Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals

CVD Cardio vascular disease

CVE Continuous Vocational Education

CVS Cardiovascular system

or Council for Voluntary Service

CWDC Children’s Workforce Development Council

Cx cervix

CYA Cover Your Arse

CYHC Clean Your Hands Campaign

CYPA Children’s & Young Persons Act 2008

CYPF Children and Young People's Fund

CYPS Children and Young People's Services

CYPSPB Children’s & Young Persons Strategic Partnership Board

CYPU Children and Young People's Unit

D

D5W Dextrose 5% in Water

D&C Dilatation & Curettage - a gynaecological procedure of questionable usefulness

D&T Drugs and Therapeutics

D/C DisContinue

or Discharge

DA Distributable Amount

or District Audit

or Devolved Administration

DA(SER) Domestic Affairs Subcommittee (of the Cabinet) on Social Exclusion and Regeneration

DAAT Drug and Alcohol Team

DAG Disability Action Group

DAN Disabled People's Direct Action Network

DANS Duty Assessment Nurses

DARE Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness

DAR Departments Annual Report

DART Drug and Alcohol Resistance Training

DAS Drug & Alcohol Service

DASG Drugs and Alcohol Specific Grant

DASS Director of Adult Social Services

DAT Drugs Action Team

or Disability Appeal Tribunal (obs)

or Digital Audio Tape

DATA Distress Awareness Training Agency

DATC Drug Addiction Treatment Centre

DBC Dental Body Corporate

DBFO Design Build Finance and Operate

DBP Diastolic Blood Pressure

DC District Council

or Dental Contractor

or Dementia Care

DCA Department for Constitutional Affairs

DCC Day Case Centre

DCD Director of Corporate Development

DCFE Deptartment for Children, Families & Education

DCFS Directorate of Counter-Fraud Services (obs)

DCLG Department for Communities & Local Government

DCM Dental Commissioning Manager

DCMS Department for Culture, Media & Sport

DCO Day Care Outreach

DC,PG Dementia Care Pathway Group

DCSF Department for Children, Schools and Families

DCT Disabled Children’s Team

DCYP Department for Children & Young People

DDA Disability Discrimination Act 1995,

Also The Disabled Drivers' Association

DDD Defined Daily Dose

DDPHRCS Diploma in Dental Public Health, Royal College of Surgeons of England

DDRB Doctors and Dentists' Review Body

DEB Dental Estimates Board

DEC Development and Evaluation Committee replaced by NICE March 2000

DEFRA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

DEL Departmental Expenditure Limit

DERA Defence Evaluation Research Agency Dissolved July 2001

DES DiEthyl Stilbestrol

or Department of Education & Science (obs)

or Disability Equality Scheme

or Direct Enhanced Services

DESMOND, Diabetes Education Self Management Ongoing & Newly Diagnosed

DETR Department of Environment, Transport & the Regions (obs)

DEXA, Dual Energy Xray Absorptiometry

DF Director of Finance

DFBO Design, Finance, Build & Operate

DfEE Department for Education and Employment (now renamed)

DfES Department for Education and Skills now (mostly) DCFS)

DFFP Diploma of the Faculty of Family Planning

DFG Disabled Facilities Grant

DFID Department for International Development

DFO Done Fell Out

DFT Distance From Target

or Department of Transport

DG Director General

DG5 The Public Health part of the European Union

DGF Damn Good Fuck - often prescribed by male doctors for neurotic women Compliance rate is unknown because such patients are often lost to follow up

DGH District General Hospital

DGM District General Manager

DH Department of Health

DHA District Health Authority (obs)

DHDS Diabetes, Heart Disease & Stroke

DHI Drugs & Homeless Initiative

DHN Democratic Health Network

DHNB Department of Health National Briefings

DHPSRP Dept of Health Patient Safety Research Programme

DHSC Directorate of Health and Social Care (obs)

DHSS Department of Health and Social Security later split into DoH and DSS

DHTML Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language

DI Donor Insemination

DIA Drug Information Association

DIAL Disablement Information And Advice Lines

DIC Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation A common complication of surgery

or Dead in Car

DID Dissociative Identity Disorder

DIG Disablement Income Group

DIPC Director of Infection Prevention & Control

DIPEx Database of Individual Patient Experiences

DIPG Drug Information Pharmacists Group

DIPHSM Diploma in Health Services Management

DipSW Diploma in Social Work

DIRTBAG Dirty Indigent Requesting Transport Because Alcohol Gives (him) seizures

DIS Departmental Investment Strategy

DISP Developing Information System for Purchasers

DISS Disability Information Service Surrey

DisCASS Disabled Citizens Advice and Support Service

DIUS Dept for Innovation, Universities and Skills (obs)

DKA Diabetic KetoAcidosis

DLA Disability Living Allowance Benefit for people who have trouble walking or are in need of personal care

DLCV Drugs of Limited Clinical Value

DLF Disabled Living Foundation

DLO Direct Labour Organisation

DLS Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

DM Diabetes Mellitus

DMA Double Manned Ambulance

DMARD Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug

DMC District Medical Committee

DMD Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

DMF Disabled Motorists Federation

DMFT Number of Decayed, Missing or Filled Teeth

DMHE Department of Mental Health for the Elderly

DMIT Drug Misuser in Treatment

DMO District Medical Officer (obs)

DMT Departmental Management Team

DMU Directly Managed Unit

DN District Nurse

DNA Did Not Arrive - or attend

or Deoxyribonucleic Acid

DNAR Do Not Attempt Resuscitation

DNER Distributed National Electronic Resource

DNGNet Disability Network Group

DNI Do Not Intubate (similar to DNR)

DNR Do Not Resuscitate

DNS Director of Nursing Services

or Domain Name Server

DNT District Nursing Team

DNW Drugs North West

DOA Dead on Arrival

or Date of Accident (in A&E depts)

or Date of Admission

DOB Date of birth

DOCA Deoxycorticosterone acetate

DoF Director of Finance

DOG Disease Orientated Group

DOGPE Director of General Practice Education

DoH Department of Health - the Government Department responsible for healthcare in England

DOLS Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

DOVP Data on Vulnerable People

DP Dental Practice

or Demographic Profile

or Direct Payments

DPA Data Protection Act 1998

DPB Dental Practice Board

DPG Dental Practice Group

DPH Director of Public Health

or Dwellings Per Hectare

DPI Disabled Peoples' International

DPIB Direct Payments & Individual Budgets

DPO Data Protection Office

or Dentists, Pharmacists , Opticians

DPPS Director of Performance & Provider Services

DPS Direct Payment Strategy

DPR Directorate Performance Review

DPT Diptheria Pertussis Tetanus vaccine

DPTAC Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee

DPTC Disabled Person's Tax Credit (now abolished)

DRC Disability Rights Commission (obs)

or Depreciated Replacement Cost

DRE Delivering Race Equality

or Digital Rectal Examination

DRF Direct Revenue Funding

DRG Diagnosis Related Group

DRR Directorate Risk Register

DRS Dental Reference Service

or Diabetic Risk Score

or Daily Reporting Schedule

or Diabetic Retinopathy Screening

DRT Dead Right There

or Data Reporting Templates

DRTTTT Dead Right There, There, There, and There (used after pedestrian/train altercations)

DS-BPD Duodenal Switch- Biliopancreatic Diversion

DSC Disability Services Centre or

Directory of Social Change

or Day Surgery Centre

DSD Decontamination Services Department

or Director of Service Development

DSDR Directly Standardised Death Rate

DSF Draft Strategic Framework

Dsh deliberate self harm

DSO Direct Service Organisation

or Departmental Strategic Objective

DSON Detailed Statement Of Need

DSP Departmental Service Plan

DSPD Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder

DSS Department of Social Security Now the DWP

or Decision Support System

DSSA Delivery Same Sex Accommodation

DST Day Surgery Theatre

DSU Day Surgery Unit

DTA Development Trusts Association

DTB Drug and Therapeutic Bulletin

DTC Day Treatment Centre

or Diagnostic and Treatment Centre

DTD Document Type Definition

DTI Department of Trade and Industry (obs)

DTLR Department for Transport, Local Government and Regions (obs)

DTN Door To Needle (time)

DTNI Day Time Net Inflow

DTS Data Transfer Service

DTTO Drug Testing and Treatment Order

DTP Diphtheria Tetanus Pertussis - a vaccine

DUI Driving Under the Influence

DV Dependent Variable

or Domestic Violence

or domiciliary visit

or Deo Volente (God willing)

DVLA Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

DVT Deep Vein Thrombosis

DW Data Warehouse

DWA Disability Working Allowance A benefit for people working at least 16 hours a week who have a disability affecting their working ability Now replaced by DPTC

DWM Dead White Male

DWP Department for Work and Pensions

Dx Diagnosis