Sections A-B, C-D, E-H,I-L, M-O, P-R, and S-Z are on separate pages
C/P Chest Pain
C&B Choose and Book
C1-7 Cervical spine bones (in the neck)
C2H5OH +++ Drunk
CA Cancer
or Californiaor Canada
CABA Compressed Air Breathing Apparatus
CABG Coronary Artery Bypass Graft
CABE Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
CADO Chief Administrative Dental Officer
CAEF Clinical Audit and Effectiveness Forum
CAFCASS Children And Family Court Advisory Support Service
CAIT Citizens Advocacy Information and Training
CALL Cancer Aid Listening Line
CAM Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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
CANO Chief Area Nursing Officer
CAOx4 Conscious, Alert, and Oriented x4
CAP Common Agricultural Policy
or Communities Against Poverty
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
CARE Clinical Audit and Research Evidence
or Craniofacial Anomalies Register
CAS Care Assessment Schedule
or Community Accountancy Service
or Controls Assurance Statement
CASE Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
CASH Consensus Action on Salt and Health
CASP Critical Appraisal Skills Programme
CASPE Clinical Accountability Service Planning and Evaluation
CAT Computerised Axial Tomography - a scanning technology
or Critically Appraised Topic.
CATS Credit Accumulated Transfer Scheme
CAWG Controls Assurance Working Group
CBA Cost Benefit Analysis
CBI Confederation of British Industry
CBIS Capacity Building Infrastructure Strategy
CBIT Capacity Building Implementation Team
CBRN Chemical, Biological, Radioacative and Nuclear
CBS Commissioning Business Service
CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
or Computer Based Training
or cum cibis - with food
or Chief Complaint
or City Council
CCA Cost-Consequence Analysis
CCAB Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies
CCBR Community Capacity Building Review
CCBT Computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
CCC NHS Centre for Coding and Classification.
CCCG Cochrane Colorectal Cancer Group
CCDC Consultant in Communicable Disease Control
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
CCHR Citizens Commission on Human Rights
or Change Control Notice
or Change Control Procedure
CcRISP Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient
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
CCTR Cochrane Controlled Trials Register
CCTV Closed Circuit TeleVision
CD Clinical Director
or Clinical Directorate
or Cluster of Differentiation
CD-ROM Compact Disc Read Only Memory
CDC Corporate & Democratic Core
or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDDS Council of Deans of Dental Schools
CDER Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
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
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
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
CDU Child Development Unit
or Central Delivery Unit
or Colourflow Duplex Ultrasound
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
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
CEPOD Confidential Enquiry into Peri-Operative Deaths
CERA Capital Expenditure, Revenue Account
CERES Consumers for Ethics in Research
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
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
CfPS Centre for Public Scrutiny
CFR Capital Financing Reserve
CFRC Children and Family Resource Centre
CFS Chronic Fatigue Syndrome closely associated with ME
CFSMS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service
CGD Chronic Granulomatous Disease
CGF Child Growth Foundation
CGST Clinical Governance Support Team
CHAI Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection
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)
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
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
CHRC Community Health and Resource Centres
CHS Community Health Services
or Centre for Horizon Scanning, University of Birmingham
CI Clinical Indicator
CIA Chief Internal Auditor
CIC Common Information Core or
Charitable Incorporated Organisation
CIEH Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
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
CIPD Chartered Institute of Personnel Development
CIPFA Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountancy
CIPG Community Investment Partnership Group
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)
CIX The Commercial Internet eXchange Association
CJC Commissioning Joint Committee
CLA Commissioner for Local Administration (the ombudsman)
CLAPA Cleft Lip and Palate Association
CLDT Community Learning Disability Team
CLGMS Cash Limited General Medical Services
CLib Cochrane Library
CLIP Central-Local Information Partnership
or CLinical Improvements Database
CLL Chronic Low Life
CLP Constituency Labour Party
CM Community Midwife
CMA Cost Minimisation Analysis
CMAJ Canadian Medical Association Journal
CMB Central Midwives Board (obs)
cm cras mane - tomorrow morning
CMD Continuing Medical Development
CME Continuing Medical Education
CMF Capital Modernisation Fund
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
CMMC Central Manchester and Manchester Children's NHS Trust
CMMS Case Mix Management System
or Clinical Medical Officer
or Community Medical Officer
CMP Civilian Medical Practitioner
CMPCT Central Manchester PCT
CMPS Centre for Management and Policy Studies
CMT Corporate Management Team
CMV cytomegalovirus
CN Charge Nurse
CNM Clinical Nurse Manager
or Clinical Nurse Specialist
or Community Nursing Service
CNST Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts
or Course Organiser
or Complains Of
or Chief Officer
or Capital Out-turn
CO2 carbon dioxide
COAD Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease - usually called COPD
CoAg Countryside Agency
COCH Countess of Chester Hospital
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)
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
COSHH Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations
or Community Plan
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
CPAG Child Poverty Action Group
or Capital Prioritisation Advisory Group
CPAP Continuous Positive Airway Pressure
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
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 AMICUS
CPMP Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products
CPN Community Psychiatric Nurse
CPNA Community Psychiatric Nurses Association - now the Mental Health Nursing Association
CPO Chief Pharmaceutical Officer
CPOD Centre for Professional and Organisational Development
CPPIH Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health
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
CPSM Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine
CPU Contracts & Purchasing Unit
or Central Processing Unit
CPWP Capital Programmes Working Party
CQSW Certificate of Qualification of Social Work abolished 1989
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 Co-ordinated Research in to Accidents on Salford Highways
CRAFT Can't Remember a Fucking Thing
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
CRHP Council for the Regulation of
Healthcare Professionals
CRIO Chief Registration & Inspection Officer - Responsible for the Health and Social Service Registration and Inspection Units and Guidance-ad-Litem service.
CRMD Cochrane Review Methodology Database
CRT Community Rehabilitation Team
or Coalfields Regeneration Trust
CRU Civil Renewal Unit (Home Office)
CS Capital Strategy
CSAG Clinical Standards Advisory Group
CSASHS Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service
CSC Community Sector Coalition
CSCI Commission for Social Care Inspection
CSCM Civil Service Corporate Management
CSD Carbonated Soda Drinks
CSEC Corporate Specialist Education Committee
CSF Cerebro-spinal Fluid or
Community Support Framework
CSIP Care Services Improvement Partnership
CSM Committee on the Safety of Medicines
or Christian Socialist Movement
CSMC Civil Service Management Committee
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 Children's Social Services
CSSD Central Sterile Supplies Department
or Central Support Service Department
CSV Community Service Volunteers
CT Computerised tomography - a scanning technology
CTA Community Transport Association (UK )
CTAC Community Technical Aid Centre
CTBSL Council Tax Benefit Subsidy Limitation
CTD Close To Death
or Circling The Drain
CTG cardiotocography electronic measurement of fetal heart and uterine contractions
CTI Computers in Teaching Initiative (abolished 1999)
CTO Compulsory Treatment Order
CTPLD Community Team for People with Learning Disabilities
CTSS Council Tax at Standard Spending
or Credit Union
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
CVCP Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals
CVE Continuous Vocational Education
or Council for Voluntary Service
Cx cervix
CYA Cover Your Arse
CYPF Children and Young People's Fund
CYPS Children and Young People's Services
CYPU Children and Young People's Unit
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
DA(SER) Domestic Affairs Subcommittee (of the Cabinet) on Social Exclusion and Regeneration
DAAT Drug and Alcohol Team
DAN Disabled People's Direct Action Network
DANS Duty Assessment Nurses
DARE Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness
DART Drug and Alcohol Resistance Training
DASG Drugs and Alcohol Specific Grant
DASS Director of Adult Social Services
or Disability Appeal Tribunal (obs)
DATA Distress Awareness Training Agency
DBFO Design Build Finance and Operate
DCA Department for Constitutional Affairs
DCFS Directorate of Counter-Fraud Services (obs)
or Department for Children, Schools and Families
DCMS Department for Culture, Media & Sport
DCT Disabled Children’s Team
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
DETR Department of Environment, Transport & the Regions (no longer exists)
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
DFID Department for International Development
DFO Done Fell Out
DFT Distance From Target
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 April 2002)
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
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
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
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
DMARD Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug
DMC District Medical Committee
DMDDuchenne Muscular Dystrophy
DMF Disabled Motorists Federation
DMFT Number of Decayed, Missing or Filled Teeth
DMHE Department of Mental Health for the Elderly
DMO District Medical Officer (obs)
DMT Departmental Management Team
DMU Directly Managed Unit
DNA Did Not Arrive - or attend
DNER Distributed National Electronic Resource
DNGNet Disability Network Group
DNI Do Not Intubate (similar to DNR)
DNS Director of Nursing Services
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
DOGPE Director of General Practice Education
DoH Department of Health - the Government Department responsible for healthcare in England.
DPI Disabled Peoples' International
DPR Directorate Performance Review
DPT Diptheria Pertussis Tetanus vaccine
DPTC Disabled Person's Tax Credit (now abolished)
DRC Disability Rights Commission
or Depreciated Replacement Cost
DRF Direct Revenue Funding
DRG Diagnosis Related Group
DRT Dead Right There
DRTTTT Dead Right There, There, There, and There (used after pedestrian/train altercations)
DSC Disability Services Centre or
DSD Decontamination Services Department
DSO Direct Service Organisation
DSON Detailed Statement Of Need
DSPD Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder
DSS Department of Social Security. Now the DWP
or Decision Support System
DSU Day Surgery Unit
DTA Development Trusts Association
DTB Drug and Therapeutic Bulletin
DTC Day Treatment Centre
or Diagnostic and Treatment Centre
DTI Department of Trade and Industry
DTLR Department for Transport, Local Government and Regions (obs)
DTNI Day Time Net Inflow
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
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
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