Health and Social Services Glossary of Acronyms
I
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
or Information, Advice & Guidance
IAGI Intended Average Gross Income
IANI Intended Average Net Income
IAPO International Alliance of Patients' Organisations
IAT Inter Authority Transfer
IAVI International Aids Vaccine Initiative
IB Individual Budget
IBD Inflammatory Bowel Disease
IBMS Institute of Biomedical Science
IC Intermediate Care
or Information Custodian
ICA Invalid Care Allowance now replaced by Carers Allowance
or Intermediate Care Assistant
ICAD Intelligence Computer Aided Dispatch
ICAS Independent Complaints Advisory Service
ICATS Integrated Clinical Assessment and Treatment Services
ICB Intermediate Care Bed
ICBU Intermediate Care Bed Unit
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). Widget design courtesy of medicalbillingandcodingcertification.net
or Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator
ICES Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
or Integrated Community Equipment Service
ICF Intracellular Fluid
ICFM Institute of Charity Fundraising Managers Trust
ICH Infection Control & Hygiene
ICHS International Centre for Health and Society
or Information Centre for Health & Social Care
ICL Improving Clinical Leadership
ICN Integrated Care Network
or Infection Control Nurse
ICNA Infection Control Nurses Association
ICP Integrated Care Pathway
or IntraCranial Pressure
or Intensive Care Practitioner
or Independent Care Providers
ICR Institute of Cancer Research
ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross
ICRS Integrated Care Records Service
ICS Intermediate Care Service
ICST Intensive Community Support Team
ICT Information Communication Technology
or Infection Control Team
ICU Intensive care unit
ICW Integrated Clinical Workstation
or Indigenous Community Worker
ID Identify/Indentification
ID2000 Indices of Deprivation 2000
IDA Improvement Development Agency
IDAL Issue Decisions Action Log
IDDM Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus
IdeA Improvement & Development Agency
IDF International Diabetes Federation
IDI Illness & Disability Indicator
IEMC Interbalkan European Medical Center
IEP Individual Educational Plan
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IFA Independent Financial Advice
IFG Impaired Fasting Glucose
IFM Information for the Management of Healthcare
IFN Interferon
IFPMA International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations
IFRS International Finance Reporting Standard
IFS Institute for Fiscal Studies
IFSO International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity
IFV Instruction for a Variation
IGC Integrated Governance Committee
IgG Immunoglobulin G (as opposed to IgD, IgE, IgM, IgA)
IGH Integrated Governance Handbook
IGR Impaired Glucose Regulation
IGT Impaired Glucose Tolerance
IHD Ischaemic Heart Disease
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
IHTT Intensive Home Treatment Team
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
ILO International Labour Organisation
ILP Independent Living Project
ILR Implantable Loop Recorder
ILS Independent Living Scheme
ILSI International Life Sciences Institute
IM Intramuscular
IM & T Information Management & Technology
IMCA Independent Mental Capacity Advocates
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
IMP Individual Management Plan
IMS Institute of Medical Science
IMT Information, Management & Technology
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
INR International Normalisation Ratio
INSET IN-SErvice Training
INTRANET An exclusive and private type of internet inside an organisation
IOD Index of Deprivation
IOG Improving Outcomes Guidance
IoS Item of Service Something that GPs get paid for on a itemised basis under the terms of the Red Book
IP In Patient
IPAS Improving Performance in Ambulance Services
IPEC Improving Patients Experience Committee
IPF Institute of Public Finance
IPG Intervention Procedures Guidance
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
IPQ Improving Practice Questionnaire
IPR Individual Performance Review
IPS Integrated Personnel System
or formerly the Indicative Prescribing Scheme
IPR Individual Performance Review
IPU In Patient Unit
IQAS Integrated Quality Audit System
IR Inland Revenue (obs)
or International Rescue Corps
IRF Incident Reporting Form
IRL Initial Resource Limit
IRO Independent Reviewing Officer
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
ISA Independent Safeguarding Authority
or Individual Schools Budget
or Information Standards Board
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
or Interim Steering Group
ISIP Integrated Service Improvement Programme
ISO International Organization for Standardization
or Infrastructure Support Organisation
ISOP Invitation to submit outline proposals
ISPOR International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
ISQ In Status Quo
ISQua International Society for Quality in Health Care
ISR Implementation Status Review
ISSG Integrated Services Strategy Group
IST Intensive Support Team
ISTAHC International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care
ISTC Independent Sector Treatment Centres
ITN Invitation to Negotiate
ITP Integration & Transformation Programme
ITPD Invitation to Participate in Dialogue
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 EducationIV Intravenous
or Independent Variable
IVD In Vitro Diagnostic
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
IWP Institute of Work Psychology
IYF Inter Year Flexibility
J
J Judge (in law reports)
JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association
JANET Joint Academic Network
JAR Joint Area Review
JCB Joint Commissioning Board
JCC Joint Consultative Committee
or Joint Consultants Committee
JCCO Joint Council for Clinical Oncology
JCE Joint Commissioning Executive
JCF Joint Commissioning Framework
JCHMT Joint Committee for Higher Medical Training
JCHST Joint Committee for Higher Surgical Training
JCI Joint Chief Inspectors
JCMT Joint Care Management Team
JCNC Joint Consultative & Negotiating Committee
JCPTGP Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice
JCVI Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation
JDC Junior Doctors Committee
JDRF Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
JE Job Evaluation
JEMS Journal of Emergency Medicine
JES Joint European Society
JEWG Job Evaluation Working Group
JFA Joint Fire Authority
JFC Joint Formulary Committee
JFSG Joint Finance Steering Group
JFSSG Joint Food Safety and Standards Group
JHSC Joint Health Scrutiny Committee
JHSCN Joint Health & Social Care Network
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
or Joint Improvement Partnership
JISC Joint Information Systems Committee
JLDS Joint Learning Disability Service (runs CLDTs)
JLTP Joint Local Transport Plan
JNC(J) Joint Negotiating Committee on junior doctors terms and conditions of service
JOL Jaws of Life
JOPS Joint Older Peoples Strategy
JOSC Joint Overview & Scrutiny Committee
JPAC Joint Planning Advisory Committee
JPEG Jejunal Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy
JRCALC Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee
JRCT Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
JRF Joseph Rowntree Foundation
JSE Joint Strategy Executive
JSG Joint Stategy Group
JSNA Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
JSOG Joint Senior Officers Group
JUC Joint Union Council
JVIC Joint Vaccination & Immunisation Committee
K
K-9 dog
KED Kendrick Extrication Device
KFPT Key Finance Performance Targets
KIA Key Issues & Actions
KIGS Key Indicators, Geographical System
KISS Keep It Simple and Stupid
KLOE Key Lines Of Enquiry
KMS Knowledge Management System
KPI Key Performance Indicators
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
KRIS Knowledge, Resource & Information Service
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
L
L1-5 Bones in the lumbar spine
LA Local Authority
LAA Local Authority Association
or Local Area Agreement
LAC Looked After Children
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
LAGB Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding
LAN Local Area Network
LAP Local Area Partnership
or Local Action Plan
LAPIS Locality and Practice Information
LARC Long Acting Reversible Contraception
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
LBD Lewy Body Dementia
LBGU London Borough Grants Unit
LBW Low Birth Weight
or (obs) London County Council
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
or Lord Chancellor's Department (obs)
LCFS Local Counter Fraud Specialist
LCH Leonard Cheshire Home
LCP Liverpool Care Pathway
LCSB Local Children’s Safeguarding Board
LD Learning Difficulties
or Local Democracy
or Liberal Democrat
LDA Local Development Agency
LDAF Learning Disabilities Award Framework
LDC Local Dental Committee
LDD Local Development Document
LDDD Learning Difficulties Day Desk
LDDS Learning Difficulties Day Service
LDF Local Development Framework
LDH Large Diameter Hose
LDL Low density lipoprotein - high levels are harmful
LD/MH Learning Difficulties/ Mental Handicap
LDP Local Delivery Plan
LDPB Learning Difficulties Partnership Board
LDPR Local Delivery Plan Return
LDS Learning Disability Service
or Local Development Scheme
LDSAG Local Diabetes Service Advisory Group
LDSIP Learning Difficulties Service Improvement Plan
LDTPG Learning Difficulties Transport Project Group
LE Lower Extremities
or Living Environment
LEA Local Education Authority
LEC Local Enterprise Company
LED Light Emitting Diode
LEI Local Employment Initiative
LEL Lower Explosive Limit
LEO Leading Empowered Organisations
LES Local Enhanced Service
LETS Local Exchange Trading Scheme
LFEPA London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority
LFS Labour Force Survey
LFT Liver Function Test
LGA Local Government Association
LG&PIH Local Government and Public Involvement in Health
LGBT Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender
LGC Local Government Chronicle
LGES Local Government Equalities Standard
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
LGN Local Government Network
LGNIS Local Government National Indicator Set
LGPS Local Government Pension Scheme
LGUSS Local Government User Satisfaction Survey
LGV lymphogranuloma venereum
LH Luteinizing hormone
LHB Local Health Board
LHC Local Housing Companies
LHCC Local Health Care Co-operative
LHE Local Health Episodes
LHG Local Health Group
LIF Left Iliac Fossa or
Local Initiatives Fund
LIFT Local Improvement Finance Trust
LIG Local Implementation Group
LILL Living with Long-term Illness
LINC Library and Information Commission (obs)
LINks Local Involvement Networks
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
LMCA Long-term Medical Conditions Alliance (obs)
LMP Last Menstrual Period
LMR Local Modernisation Review
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
LOM Local Outcome Measures
LOP Local Operational Plan
LOS Length of Stay A measure of activity in hospital wards
LPA Local Planning Authority
or Lasting Power of Attorney
or Lease Plus Agreement
LPB Local Partnership Board
LPC Local Pharmaceutical Committee - a committee of pharmacists
LPF Local Performance Framework
LPG Liquified Petroleum Gas
LPM Litres Per Minute
LPS Local Pharmaceutical Services
or Lipopolysaccaride
LPSA Local Public Service Agreement
LRAG Local Risk Assessment Guidance
LRD Labour Research Department
LREC Local Research Ethics Committee
LRF Local Resilience Forum
LRR Local Reference Rent
LRRF London Regional Resilience Forum
LRS Lactated Ringers Solution
LRT London Resilience Team
LRTI Lower Respiratory Tract Infection
LSB Long Spine Board
or Local Schools Budget
LSCB Local Safeguarding Children Board
LSCG Local Specialised Commissioning Group
LSCS lower segment caesarean section
LSCWDC Lancashire and South Cumbria Workforce Development Confederation
LSDG Local Service Development Group
LSHTM London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
LSMS Local Security Management System
LSOA Lower Super Output Area
LSP Local Strategic Partnership
LSTM Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
LSVT Large Scale Voluntary Transfer
Lt Left
LTA Long Term Agreement
or Local Transport Authority
or Long Term Approach
LTC Long Term Condition
LTCA Long Term Condition Alliance
LTCI Long-term Care Insurance
LTCP Long Term Care Pathway
LTH Luteotrophic, lactogenic hormone - prolactin
or Lifetime Homes
LTLI Long Term Limiting Illness
LTM Learning to Manage Health information
or Long Term Management
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
LV Left Ventricular
LVAD Left Ventricle assist device
LVD Left Ventricular Dysfunction
LVF Left Ventricular Failure
LVH Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
LVSP Low Value Surgical Procedure
LWA Local Working Agreement
LWPG Local Winter Planning Group
LZ Landing Zone