Sections A-B, C-D, E-H,M-O, P-R, and S-Z are on separate pages
I4H Information for Health
I&D Incision & Drainage
IADL Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
IAFC International Association of Fire Chiefs
IAFF International Association of Fire Fighters
IAG Information Age Government
IAGI Intended Average Gross Income
IANI Intended Average Net Income
IAPO International Alliance of Patients' Organisations
IAVI International Aids Vaccine Initiative
ICATS Integrated Clinical Assessment and Treatment Services
IBMS Institute of Biomedical Science
ICA Invalid Care Allowance now replaced by Carers Allowance
ICAS Independent Complaints Advisory Service
ICC Industry Consultative Committee
or Integrated Child Credit
ICD The World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (now on 10th revision)
ICES Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
ICF Intracellular Fluid
ICFM Institute of Charity Fundraising Managers Trust
ICHS International Centre for Health and Society
ICP Integrated Care Pathway
or IntraCranial Pressure
ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross
ICT Information Communication Technology
ICU Intensive care unit
ICW Integrated Clinical Workstation
or Indigenous Community Worker
ID Identify/Indentification
ID2000 Indices of Deprivation 2000
IDA Improvement Development Agency
IDDM Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus
IdeA Improvement & Development Agency
IDF International Diabetes Federation
IEMC Interbalkan European Medical Center
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IFM Information for the Management of Healthcare
IFN Interferon
IFPMA International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations
IFS Institute for Fiscal Studies
IgG Immunoglobulin G (as opposed to IgD, IgE, IgM, IgA)
IHE International Health Exchange
IHEEM Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management
IHF International Hospital Federation
IHM Institute of Healthcare Management
IHRIM Institute of Health Record Information and Management
IHSM Institute of Health Service Managers - now part of the IHM
II Intensive Interaction
IL Interleukin
ILA Individual Learning Account
ILAF Independent Local Advisory Forums
ILCOR International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation
ILD Index of Local Deprivation (replaced by IMD)
ILM Intermediate Labour Market
ILP Independent Living Project
ILSI International Life Sciences Institute
IM Intramuscular
IM & T Information Management & Technology
IMCO Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (of the European Parliament)
IMD Index of Multiple Deprivation
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
imp impression - as in I don't know the diagnosis here
INASP International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications
INES International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility
INLOGOV Institute Of LOcal GOVernment studies
INSET IN-SErvice Training
INTRANET An exclusive and private type of internet inside an organisation.
IoS Item of Service Something that GPs get paid for on a itemised basis under the terms of the Red Book
IPF Institute of Public Finance
IPH Improvement Partnership for Hospitals
IPPC Integrated Pollution Prevention Control
IPPF International Planned Parenthood Federation
IPPR Institute of Public Policy Research
IPPU Intermittent Positive Pressure Ventilation
IPR Individual Performance Review
IPS Integrated Personnel System
or formerly the Indicative Prescribing Scheme
IPR Individual Performance Review
IR Inland Revenue (obs)
IRL Initial Resource Limit
IRP Independent Reconfiguration Panel
IRR Internal Rate of Return
IRRV Institute of Revenues, Rating & Valuation
IRT Identification, Referral and Tracking
IS Income Support. Formerly Supplementary Benefit, and before that National Assistance, before that the Poor Law.
or Independent Sector
or Individual Schools Budget
ISBA Incorporated Society of British Advertisers
ISBN International Standard Book Number
ISD Information and Statistics division
ISDD Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network - Cabling for fast digital transmission.
or It Still Does Nothing.
ISE Individualised Sensory Environment
ISG Information Services Group
ISIP Integrated Service Improvement Programme
ISO International Organization for Standardization
or Infrastructure Support Organisation
ISPOR International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
ISQ In Status Quo
ISQua International Society for Quality in Health Care
IST Intensive Support Team
ISTAHC International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care
ISTC Independent Sector Treatment Centres
ITN Invitation to Negotiate
ITS Independent Tribunal Service - now replaced by the Appeals Service
ITT Invitation To Tender
ITU ICU - the terms are interchangeable
or Internal Trading Unit
IUD Intra-Uterine Device (a Contraceptive coil)
or Intrauterine Death (A type of miscarriage).
IUHPE International Union for Health Promotion and Education
or Independent Variable
IVF In Vitro Fertilisation. Sex in a test tube, where the normal methods haven't produced any result.
IVP Intravenous Pyelogram. X-ray of the urinary tract
IVPB IntraVenous Piggy Back
IWCCE Isle of Wight Centre for the Coastal Environment
IYF Inter Year Flexibility
J Judge (in law reports)
JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association
JANET Joint Academic Network
JCB Joint Commissioning Board
JCC Joint Consultative Committee
or Joint Consultants Committee
JCCO Joint Council for Clinical Oncology
JCE Joint Commissioning Executive
JCHMT Joint Committee for Higher Medical Training
JCHST Joint Committee for Higher Surgical Training
JCPTGP Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice
JCVI Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation
JDC Junior Doctors Committee
JE Job Evaluation
JEMS Journal of Emergency Medicine
JFA Joint Fire Authority
JFC Joint Formulary Committee
JFSG Joint Finance Steering Group
JFSSG Joint Food Safety and Standards Group
JIGSAW Project designed to reduce the need for hospital beds. Co-ordinated by GMAS.
JIP Joint Investment Plan - what you have to write in your BSVP group
JISC Joint Information Systems Committee
JLDS Joint Learning Disability Service (runs CLDTs).
JNC(J) Joint Negotiating Committee on junior doctors terms and conditions of service
JOL Jaws of Life
JPAC Joint Planning Advisory Committee
JPEG Jejunal Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy
JRCT Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
JRF Joseph Rowntree Foundation
JSE Joint Strategy Executive
JSG Joint Stategy Group
JSOG Joint Senior Officers Group
K-9 dog
KED Kendrick Extrication Device
KIGS Key Indicators, Geographical System
KISS Keep It Simple and Stupid
KPMG KPMG is an international firm of accountants. The letters don't seem to stand for anything now but it used to be Peat Marwick Mitchell.
KS 1 - 4 Key Stages 1-4. Part of the National Curriculum
KSF Knowledge and Skills Framework
KSS Kent Surrey and Sussex
KTP Knowledge Transfer Partnership
KVO Keep Veins Open
L1-5 Bones in the lumbar spine
LA Local Authority
LAA Local Authority Association
or Local Area Agreement
LAC Looked After Children - A child who is looked after by a Local Authority and a child who is in the care of the local authority for more than 24 hours; or provided with accommodation by the authority
or Local Authority Circular.
or Local Authority Company
LACOTS Local Authorities Co-ordinating Body on Food and Trading Standards
LAD Local Authority District
LAFS Local Authority Financial Settlement
LAN Local Area Network
LAP Local Area Partnership
or Local Action Plan
LAPIS Locality and Practice Information
LARIA Local Authorities Research & Intelligence Association
LAS Locum Appointment Service
or Lights And Siren
LASA London Advice Services Alliance
LASFE Local Authorities' Self-Financed Expenditure
LASGLH Lights and sirens, go like hell
LASS Local Authority Social Services.
LASSL Local Authority Social Services Letter
LAT Local Appointment for Training
LATF Local Asthma Taskforce
LATS Long-acting thyroid stimulator
LAWDC Local Authority Waste Disposal Company
LAY Look After Yourself
LB London Borough
LBGU London Borough Grants Unit
or (obs) London County Council
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
or Lord Chancellor's Department (obs)
LCFS Local Counter Fraud Specialist
LD Learning Difficulties
or Local Democracy
or Liberal Democrat
LDA Local Development Agency
LDAF Learning Disabilities Award Framework
LDC Local Dental Committee - the statutory body comprised of GDPs that represents dental practices in the local area.
LD/MH Learning Difficulties/ Mental Handicap
LDH Large Diameter Hose
LDL Low density lipoprotein - high levels are harmful
LDP Local Delivery Plan
LDSAG Local Diabetes Service Advisory Group
LE Lower Extremities
LEA Local Education Authority
LEC Local Enterprise Company
LEI Local Employment Initiative
LEL Lower Explosive Limit
LEO Leading Empowered Organisations
LETS Local Exchange Trading Scheme
LFT Liver Function Test
LGA Local Government Association.
LGBT Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender
LGC Local Government Chronicle
LGFR Local Government Finance Report
LGFS Local Government Financial Settlement
or Local Government Financial Statistics
LGHA Local Government & Housing Act 1989
LGIB Local Government International Bureau
LGIU Local Government Information Unit
LGMB Local Government Management Board
LGPS Local Government Pension Scheme
LGV lymphogranuloma venereum
LH Luteinizing hormone
LHCC Local Health Care Co-operative Scottish sort of PCG
LHG Local Health Group A sort of Welsh PCG
LIF Left Iliac Fossa or
Local Initiatives Fund
LIFT Local Improvement Finance Trust
LINC Library and Information Commission (obs)
LIO Local Implementation Officer or
Local Infrastructure Organisation
LIP Local Implementation Plans
LIS Local Implementation Strategy
or Library Information System
LISI Low Income Scheme Index. Measure of deprivation based on claims for exemption from prescription charges on grounds of low income.
LIT Local Implementation Team
LIVJM Liverpool John Moores University
LIZEI London Implementation Zone Educational Initiative
LKKS Liver, Kidney, Kidney, Spleen
LLL Life Long Learning
LLQ Left Lower Quadrant
LLSC Local Learning & Skills Council
LLTI Limiting Long term Illness
LMA Laryngeal Mask Airway
LMC Local Medical Committee - the statutory local representative committee for all GPs in the area covered by the health authority.
LMCA Long-term Medical Conditions Alliance
LMP Last Menstrual Period
LMS Local Management of Schools
LMWAG Local Medical Workforce Advisory Groups, formed in 1996 to co-ordinate postgraduate medical education between groups of Trusts. There are around 5 or 6 in each NHS Region.
LNRS Local Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy
LOBNH Lights On But Nobody Home
LOC Level of Consciousness
LOL Little Old Lady
LOS Length of Stay. A measure of activity in hospital wards.
LNRS Local Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy
LPC Local Pharmaceutical Committee - a committee of pharmacists
LPG Liquified Petroleum Gas
LPM Litres Per Minute
LPS Local Pharmaceutical Services
or Lipopolysaccaride
LPSA Local Public Service Agreement
LRD Labour Research Department
LREC Local Research Ethics Committee
LRR Local Reference Rent
LRS Lactated Ringers Solution
LRTI Lower Respiratory Tract Infection
LSB Long Spine Board
or Local Schools Budget
LSCG Local Specialised Commissioning Group
LSCS lower segment caesarean section
LSCWDC Lancashire and South Cumbria Workforce Development Confederation
LSHTM London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
LSP Local Strategic Partnership
LSTM Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
LSVT Large Scale Voluntary Transfer
Lt Left
LTA Long Term Agreement
LTC Long Term Condition
LTH Luteotrophic, lactogenic hormone - prolactin
LTM Learning to Manage Health information
LTP Local Transport Plan
LTPS Liability to Third Parties Scheme
LTSA Long term service agreement
LTVS Long-term Ventilatory Support - help with breathing for people who cannot breathe without it.
LTSA long term service agreement
LUQ Left Upper quadrant
LWPG Local Winter Planning Group
LZ Landing Zone
Last updated 10/11/06