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M

MA Master of Arts

or Modernisation Agency (obs)

MAA Medical Artists Association of Great Britain

Multi Agency Agreement

MAAG Medical Audit Advisory Group

MAAQ Multidisciplinary Audit and Quality Group In Manchester replaced by the ACTS

MAB Metropolitan Asylums Board (obs)

MAC Medical Advisory Committee

MACA Mental After Care Association now called Together

or Military Aid to the Civil Authorities

MACC Manchester Alliance for Community Care

or Multi Agency Command & Control

MACHEM Manchester Action Committee on Health for Ethnic Minorities - now defunct

MADEL Medical and Dental Education Levy

MADEN Medical and Dental Education Network (obs)

MAE Moves All Extremities

MAES Manchester Adult Education Service

MAFF Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (now part of DEFRA)

MAGGOT Medically Able, Go Get Other Transportation

MALDA Multi Agency Learning Disability Assessment

MANCAS Manchester Care Assessment Schedule

MAP Management Action Plan

MAPPA Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements

MAPS MIND Arts Project Stockport

MAR2C Matching Resources to Care - This is a mental health information system for caseload monitoring devised to study cases of serious mental illness MARC2 can compare data from Social Services, Health Services and the voluntary sector

MARAC Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference

MARMAP Multi Agency Risk Management Assessment Process

MARP Multi Agency Risk Assessment Panel - decides whether mentally ill people are dangerous

MAS Minimal Access Surgery

or Manchester Alcohol Service

MASC Medical Advisers Support Centre - See NPC

or Medical Academic Staff Committee

MASH Manchester Action on Street Health

MAST Multi-Agency Support Team

or Military Anti Shock Trousers

MASTA Medical Advisory Services for Travellers Abroad

MAT Medical Appeal Tribunal

MAU Medical Assessment Unit

MAVIS Mobility Advice and Vehicle Information Service

MB Medicinae Baccalaureus Basic medical degree Usually with CHB

MBA Masters in Business Administration

MBBS Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery

MBC Metropolitan Borough Council

MBU Mother & Baby Unit

MC Medicines Commission

MCA Motorcycle Accident

or Medicines Control Agency

or Maritime and Coastguard Agency

or Mental Capacity Act 2005

MCC Manchester City Council

or Millennium Control Centre

or Magistrates Courts Committee

or Manchester Chamber of Commerce

MCCR Manchester Council for Community Relations

MCDH A dentist's qualification

MCF Manchester Carers Forum - A co-ordinating group that provides support to carers It provides an opportunity for carers’ viewpoints to be noted and represented in the wider community

MChD Master of Dental Surgery

MChOrth Master of Orthopaedic Surgery

MCH mean corpuscular haemoglobin

MCHC mean corpuscular l haemoglobin concentration

MCHM Manchester Centre for Healthcare Management (obs)

MCI Mass Casualty Incident

MCIN Manchester Community Information Network run a network of computer terminals with a local information service

MCL Manchester Community Living - Social Services in-house provider division

MCN Managed Clinical Network

MCO Managed Care Organisation

MCP Male Chauvinist Pig (obs?)

or Master Control Plan

MCPJ metacarpal joint

MCQ Multiple Choice Questions

MCRG Medical Career Research Group

MCSP Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

MCV Main Corpuscular Volume

MCW Model Care Workshop

MD Medicinae Doctor (Doctor of Medicine) first medical degree (US version)

or Medical Devices

or Multi Disciplinary

MDA Medical Devices Agency (obs)

or Misuse of Drugs Act 1971

MDD Medical Device Directorate

MDDUS Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland

MDG Muscular Dystrophy Group

MDI Metered Dose Inhaler

MDM medical decision making

MDO Mentally Disordered Offender

MDP Middle [school], Deemed Primary [school]

or Medical Devices Policy

MDR Multiple Drug Resistant

or Medical Devices Regulations

MDS Master of Dental Surgery

or Middle [school], Deemed Secondary [school]

or Minimum Data Set

MDT Mobile Data Terminal

or Multi Disciplinary Team

MDU Medical Defence Union

or ut a me dictum - as directed by me

ME Myalgic Encephalitis

MEC Management Education for Clinicians

MEDITEL A GP Information system

MEDLARS Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System

MEDS Medical deputising service

MENCAP Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children &Adults

MEND Mind, Exercise, Nutrition, Do it !

MEP Member of European Parliament

or Medical Equipment Partnership

MEQ Modified Examination Question

MeReC MeReC Bulletin is published by the National Prescribing Centre

MERV Medical Emergency Response Vehicle

MESB Medical Education Standards Board

MeSH Medical Subject Headings

MESMAC Men who have sex with men

MESOL Management Education Scheme by Open Learning

METC Mersey Education and Training Consortium

MFA Malicious False Alarm

MFF Market Forces Factor

MFOccM Member of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine

MFPharmM Member of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine

MFPHM Member of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine

MFS Market Forces Supplement

mg Milligramme

MGA Myasthenia Gravis Association

MGC Museums & Galleries Commission (abolished 2000)

MGP Medendium Group Publishing

MGS Modernising Government Secretariat

or Manchester Grammar School

MHA Mental Health Act 1983

MHAC Mental Health Act Commission

MHC Major Histocompatability Complex

MHF Mental Health Foundation

MHFA Mental Health First Aid

MHG Mental Health Grant

MHI Mental Health Indicator

MHIG Mental Health Information Group

MHIS Mental Health Information Strategy

MHMDS Mental Health Minimum Data Set

MHN Mental Health Network

MHPAF Mental Health Performance Assessment Framework

MHPSS Manchester Health Promotion Specialist Service

MHRA Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

MHRDU Mental Health Research & Development Unit

MHRT - Mental Health Review Tribunal convened to hear appeals against detention under the MHA

MHT Mentalhealth Task Force

MHz Megahertz - megacycles per second

MI Myocardial Infarction - heart attack

or Mental Illness

MIDIRS Midwife Information and Resource Service

MIE Medical Informatics Europe

MIG Medical Information Group

MIGS Men In Grey Suits

MIMAS Manchester Information and Associated Services

MIMS Monthly Index of Medical Specialities Guide to common prescribed drugs, inc costs, used extensively in general practice

MIMMS Major Incident Medical Management and Support

MINAP Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project

MIND Organisation of mental health users

MINI Mental Illness Needs Index

MIP Major Incident Plan

MIQUEST A software system

MIRAS Mortgage Interest Relief at Source (obs)

MIS Management Information Systems

or Minor Injury Service

MISG Mental Illness Specific Grant

MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MITAG Medical Information and Technology Advisory Group

MIU Minor Injuries Unit

MJ Municipal Journal

MLA Museums, Libraries and Archives Council

MLC Mid Life Check

MLD Mild Learning Disability

MLE Management Learning Environment

MLSO Medical Laboratory Scientific Officer

MM Modern Matron

MMC Modernising Medical Careers

mmhg Millimetres of mercury - what pressure is measured in

MMedSci Master of Medical Science

MMHSCT Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust

mmol millimoles, a chemistry measurement

MMP Morbidity & Mortality Projections

or Matrix Metalloproteinase

MMR Measles Mumps and Rubella vaccination

MMS Medical Management Services

MMSAC Medical Manpower Standing Advisory Committee

MMU Manchester Metropolitan University - formerly the polytechnic

MMV Medicines for Malaria Venture

MND Motor Neurone Disease

MNS Maternity & Newborn Services

MO Medical Officer

MOA Memorandum of Agreement

MOD Ministry of Defence

MOH Medical Officer of Health - a predecessor of the DPH

MOI Mechanism Of Injury

MOJ Minister of Justice

MOR Millennium Operating Regime

MOSS Minor Oral Surgery Service

MoU Memorandum of Understanding

mp melting point

MP Member of Parliament

or Market Price

MPA Medical Prescribing Adviser

or Masters in Public Administration

MPB Missing Persons Bureau

MPC Medical Practices Committee (abolished 2002)

MPDS Medical Priority Dispatch System

MPET Multi-Professional Education and Training levy

MPH Master of Public Health

or Musgrove Park Hospital

MPharm Master of Pharmacy

MPhil Master of Philosophy

MPIG minimum practice income guarantee

MPS Modernising Public Services Group

or Medical Protection Society

or Metropolitan Police Service

MPT Maximum Part Time

MPU Medical Practitioners Union - radical doctors' union - small medical section of Unite

MRC Medical Research Council

or Mountain Rescue Council

MRCA Member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists

MRCC Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre

MRCGP Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners

MRCO Member of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists

MRCOG Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

MRCP Member of the Royal College of Physicians

MRCPath Member of the Royal College of Pathologists

MRCPCH Member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

MRCPsych Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

MRCR Member of the Royal College of Radiologists

MRCS Member of the Royal College of Surgeons

MREC Multicentre Research Ethics Committee

MRFIT Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial

MRHDOC Melton Rutland and Harborough GP co-operative

MRHF Manchester Race and Health Forum

MRI Manchester Royal Infirmary

or Magnetic Resonance Imaging - a scanning technology

mRNA Messenger RNA

MRO Medical Records Officer

MRP Minimum Revenue Provision (part of capital control framework)

MRPSG Metropolitan Railways Passenger Services Grant

MRSA Methycillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus A bug which resists antibiotics and breeds in hospitals

MRSC Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry

or Maritime Rescue Sub-Centre

MRT Make Ready Team

MS Multiple Sclerosis

or Manuscript

or Morphine Sulphate

or Midwifery Service

MSAC Maternity Services Advisory Committee

MSc Master of Science

MSD Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd

MSDS Material Safety Data Sheet

MSF Union for skilled and professional workers, including many NHS employees Formerly ASTMS Now part of AMICUS

or Medicine Sans Frontiers

MSGP-4 National Study of Morbidity in General Practice

MSH melanophonre-stimulating hormone

MSHHF Moss Side & Hulme Health Forum

MSI Marie Stopes International

MSK Musculoskeletal

MSLC Maternity Services Liaison Committee

MSM men who have sex with men

MSOTW Man Slumped Over The Wheel

MSP Member of the Scottish Parliament

or Managing Successful Programmes

MSPCG Most Sparsely Populated Councils Group of the Local Government Association

MSS Manchester Social Services

or Medical Services Strategies

MSSU Midstream Specimen of Urine

MSU Medium Secure unit or short for MSSU

MSW Mixed Sex Wards

MTA Management Team Assistant

or Message Transfer Agent (part of an email system)

MTAS Medical Training Application Service

MTB Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

MTFP Medium Term Financial Plan

MTO Medical Technical Officer

MUSCLE Multi-Station Clinical Examination

MV Millennium Volunteer

MVD Multi Vascular Disease

MVDP Makatan Vocabulary Development Project

MVI Malaria Vaccine Initiative

MWC Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland

MWEP Medical Workforce Expansion Programme

MWSAC Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee

MWSAG Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Group

MYS Manchester Youth Service

N

N Normal

or Nocte - at night

N & N Norfolk and Norwich

NA Nursing Auxiliary

NAB National Assistance Board (1948-1966)

NAC National Abortion Campaign

NACAB National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux

NACC National Association for Colitis and Crohn's Disease

NACEPD National Advisory Council on Employment of People with Disabilities (obs)

NACGP National Association of Commisioning General Practitioners

NACPME National Advice Centre for Postgraduate Education

NACR National Audit for Cardiac Rehabilitation

NACRO National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders

NACT National Association of Clinical Tutors

NACVS National Association of Councils for Voluntary Service

NAD Nothing Abnormal Detected, or perhaps Not Actually Done

or No Apparent Distress

NAFHP National Association of Fundholding Practices (obs)

NAGPT National Association of General Practice Tutors

NAGS NICE Appraisal Groups

NAHAT National Association of Hospital Authorities and Trusts (obs)

NAHT National Association of Head Teachers

NAHWT National Association of Health Workers and Travellers

NAI Non accidental injury

NALA National Adult Learner Award

NALM National Association of LINk Members

NANO Ninety and Not Out !

NANOS North American Neuro-Opthalmology Society

NANP National Association of Non-Principals (now NASGP)

NANT National Appraisal of New Technologies

NAO National Audit Office

NAPC National Association of Primary Care formed from dying embers of Fundholding National Association to represent interests of PCGs

NAPMECA National Association of Postgraduate Medical Education Centre Administration

NAPP National Association for Patient Participation

NAPS National Anti-Poverty Strategy (Ireland)

NAS National Autistic Society

NASEN National Association for Special Educational Needs

NASGP National Association of Sessional GPs

NASS National Asylum Support Service

NASUWT National Association of School-teachers / Union of Women Teachers

NATN National Association of Theatre Nurses

or National Association of Training Nurses

NatPaCT National Primary and Care Trust development programme

NAVB National Association of Volunteer Bureaux

NAVCA National Association for Voluntary and Community Action

NAVHO National Association of Voluntary Help Organisations

NAW National Assembly for Wales

NAWO National Alliance of Women's Organisations

NB Nota bene - note well

NBA National Blood Authority

NBAP National Booked Admissions Programme

NBFI Not Bad For Ilkeston

NBG Lacking evidence of effectiveness

NBI National Beds Inquiry

NBS National Board for nursing, midwifery and health visiting for Scotland (obs)

NBT North Bristol NHS Trust

or Neighbourhood Beat Team

NBTS National Blood Transfusion Service (obs)

NBV Net Book Value

NC Nasal Cannula

NCA National Care Association

NCAA National Clinical Assessment Authority

NCAR National Clinical Audit Report

NCAT National Cancer Action Team

or National Clinical Advisory Team

NCB National Children’s Bureau

NCBV National Coalition for Black Volunteering

NCC National Consumer Council

or National Communications Centre

or News Coordination Centre

NCCA National Centre for Clinical Audit Now absorbed into NICE

or National Community Care Alliance

NCCHTA National Co-ordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment

NCCG Non-Consultant Career Grade

NCCI National Compendium of Clinical Indicators

NCCSDO National Co-ordinating Centre for NHS Service Delivery and Organisation Research and Development at the London School of Hygience and Tropical Medicine

NCD National Clinical Directors

NCDAH National Care of the Dying Audit - Hospitals

NCE Net Current Expenditure

NCEPOD National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death

NCG National Commissioning Group

NCH National Children’s Home - Action For Children

NCI National Captioning Institute

or National Centre for Involvement

or National Confidential Inquiry

NCIL National Centre for Independent Living

NCIS National Criminal Intelligence Service

NCEPOD Confidential Enquiry into Peri-operative Deaths An enquiry into surgical disasters or possibly National Commission for Encouraging Patients to be Odd and Difficult

NCL National Civic League

NCMO National Case Mix Office

NCMP National Child Measurement Programme

NCPC National Council for Palliative Care

NCR New Commitment to Regeneration

NCRS National Care Records Service

NCS National Crime Squad

or National Carers Strategy

NCSC National Care Standards Commission (abolished 2004)

NCSL National College for School Leadership

NCT National Childbirth Trust A powerful women's organisation

NCV National Centre for Volunteering (obs)

NCVCCO National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations

NCVO National Council of Voluntary Organisations

NCVYS National Council for Voluntary Youth Services

ND New Deal

NDC National Disability Council

or New Deal for Communities

NDP National Decontamination Programme

or National Defibrillator Programme

NDPB Non-Departmental Public Body

NDRSP National Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Programme

NDS National Dementia Strategy

NDU Nurse Development Unit

NDPHS National Disabled Persons Housing Service

NDR Non-Domestic Rates (alternative name for business rates)

NDS New Deal for Schools

NDTMS National drug treatment monitoring system

NDVDP National Domestic Violence Delivery Plan

NDYP New Deal for Young People

NEAS North East Ambulance Service

NEAT New and Emerging Applications of Technologies

or NHS Environmental Assessment Toolkit

NEC Cecrotising Enterocolitis

NED Non-Executive Director

NEET Not in Education Employment of Training

NEF New Economics Foundation

NEFA nonesterified fatty acids

NEJM New England Journal of Medicine

NELH National Electronic Library for Health

NERC Natural Environment Research Council

NES New Earnings Survey

or National Enhanced Services

or Non Elective Spells

NESTA National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts

NF Neurofibromatosis Hereditary neurological condition

or Nuffield Foundation

NFC Neutral Functional Content

NFHA National Federation of Housing Associations (obs)

NFI National Fraud Initiative

NFN Normal for Norfolk This is a legendary acronym, and any sightings in the wild should be reported to me

NFP Not for Profit

NFR Not for resuscitation

NFW No further work

NG Naso Gastric

NGDT National Gamete Donation Trust

NGfL National Grid for Learning (obs)

NGMS New General Medical Services

NGO Non Governmental Organisation

NHAIS National Health Authority Information Systems

NHD Notional Half Day

NHFA Nursing Homes Fees Agency a division of SB Tyler Clark, regulated by the Personal Investment Authority for investment
business

NHIH No Hope in Hell

NHL Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma

NHLI National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College

NHS National Health Service

or National Housing Strategy

NHS(S) National Health Service in Scotland

NHSAR National Health Service Administrative Register

NHSBSA NHS Business Services Authority

NHSBSP NHS Breast Screening Programme

NHSCA NHS Consultants Association

NHSCCC National Health Service Centre for Coding and Classification (obs)

NHSCR National Health Service Central Register

NHSCRS NHS Care Records Service

NHSE NHS Executive (abolished 2002)

NHSEED National Health Service Economic Evaluation Database

NHSEHU National Health Service Ethical Health Unit

NHSFT National Health Service Foundation Trust

NHSIA NHS Information Agency (abolished 2005)

NHSIC National Health Service Information Centre

NHSIII NHS Institute for Innovation & Improvement

NHSIMC National Health Service Information Centre

NHSL NHS Logistics

NHSLA National Health Service Litigation Authority

NHSLARMS NHS Litigation Authority Risk Management Standard

NHSME NHS Management Executive now called the NHSE, because we no longer believe in management

NHSnet Intranet for the NHS

NHSP NHS Partners

NHSS National Health Service Supplies

or National Healthy Schools Standard

NHSSG NHS South Gloucestershire

NHST National Health Service Trust

NHSTD National Health Service Training Directorate

NHSTF National Health Service Trust Federation

NHSTU National Health Service Training Unit

NHSU National Health Service University (obs)

NI National Insurance

NIA Northern Ireland Administration

NIACE National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education

NIAP National Infarct Angioplasty Project

NIAS Northern Ireland Ambulance Service

NIB National Implementation Board

NIBP Non Invasive Blood Pressure

NIC Net Ingredient Cost The basic price of a drug

or National Insurance Contribution

NICARE Northern Ireland Centre for Health Care Co-operation and Development

NICE National Institute for Clinical Excellence

or Northern Institute for Continuing Education

NICEC National Institute for Carers and Educational Counselling

NICON NHS Confederation in Northern Ireland

NICS Northern Ireland Civil Service

NICU Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

NICVA Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action

NIES National Improvement & Efficiency Strategy

NIGB National Information & Governance Board

NIH National Institute of Health

or Nuffield Institute for Health

NIHR National Institute for Health Research

NII Non Invasive Imaging

NILO National Investment & Loans Office

NIMHE National Institute for Mental Health in England

NINo National Insurance Number

NIO Northern Ireland Office

NIP Neighbourhood Improvement Programme (part of SRB6)

NIPPV Non Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation

NISCC National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (obs)

NISS National Information on Software and Services now moved to HERO

NISW National Institute of Social Work (obs)

NJ Naso-Jejunal

NJC National Joint Council

NJR National Joint Registry

NK Natural Killer (of cells)

NKDA No Known Drug Allergies

NL Nurse Led

NLC National Lottery Commission

NLCB National Lottery Charities Board

NLIS National Land Information Service

NLM National Library of Medicine

NLOP National Local Ownership Plan

NMAC National Medical Advisory Committee (obs)

NMC Nursing and Midwifery Council

NMCS National Minimum Care Standards

NMET Non Medical Education and Training

NMGH North Manchester General Hospital

NMIS Nurse Management Information System

NMI Neuromuscular Impairment

NMS National Minimum Standards

NMSS Non Maintained Special School

NMT Network Management Team

NMW National Minimum Wage

NNDR National Non-Domestic Rates

NNT Number Needed to Treat

NOF National Opportunities Fund

or National Obesity Forum

NOAH National Office of Animal Health

NOCN National Open College Network

NOF New Opportunities Fund

NOMIS National Online Manpower Information Service

NOMS National Offender Management Service

NOP National Opinion Polls

or Notification of Practice

NORMIT Norfolk Major Incident Team

NOS No other symptoms

or National Occupation Standards

NP National Park

NPA National Pharmaceutical Association

or Nasopharyngeal Airway

or National Park Authority

NPAT National Patients' Access Team

NPC National Prescribing Centre - based in Liverpool Formerly known as MASC Aims to promote high quality cost effective prescribing Supports Health Authority professional advisers and practice support pharmacists by providing educational activities including therapeutics workshop Published MeReC Bulletin which is distributed to all GPs on request

or Net Present Cost

NPCRDC National Primary Care Research and Development Centre - based in the University of Manchester

NPDT National Primary Care Development Team

NPFIT National Programme for IT in the NHS

NPFOP National Partnership Forum for Older People

NPG Modernising Health and Social Services: National Priorities Guidance HSC 1998/159

NPHS National Public Health Service for Wales

NPHT Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust (obs)

NPL National Physical Laboratory

NPO Nil Per Os (Nothing by mouth)

NPSA National Patient Safety Agency

NPSBC Non Project Specific Bid Costs

NPT Near Patient Testing

or Neighbourhood Police Team

NPTMG National Patient Transport Modernisation Group

NPV Net Present Value

NQB National Qualities Board

NRB Non-ReBreathing

NRC National Regionalisation Consortium

NRCI National Reference Cost Index

NRE Non-Recurring Expenditure

NRF Neighbourhood Renewal Fund

NRLS National Reporting & Learning System

NRPB National Radiological Protection Board

NRR National Research Register

NRS Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy

NRT Nicotine replacement therapy

NRU Neighbourhood Renewal Unit

NS Normal Saline

NSAID Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drug

NSC National Screening Committee

NSCAG National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group

NSEC National Smoking Education Campaign

NSF National Service Framework

or National Schizophrenia Fellowship (now called Rethink)

NSFMH National Service Framework - Mental Health

NSMC National Social Marketing Centre

NSMI National Sports Medicine Institute UK

NSNR National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal

NSPCC National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

NSR Normal Sinus Rhythm

or Next Stage Review

NSRC National Schedule of Reference Costs

NSS National Stroke Strategy

NSTS National Strategic Training Service

NSU Non-specific Urethritis Common STD

NSUG North Staffs Users Group

NSV National Supplies Vocabulary

NTA National Treatment Agency

NTDC New Town Development Corporation

NTG NiTroGylcerin

NTN National Training Number

NTO National Training Organisation

NTST National Transition Support Team

NTT Nuchal Translucency Thickness screening method for Down's sydrome

NTTRL National Tissue Typing Reference Laboratory

NUT National Union of Teachers

NUTS Nomenclature of Territorial Units

NVASEC National Voluntary Aid Society Emergency Committee

NVP Newly Vulnerable Person

NVQ National Vocational Qualification

NVRAP National Vascular Risk Assessment Programme

NWCS Nation Wide Clearing Service

NWDA North West Development Agency

NWIPP National Workforce Information and Planning Programme

NWMHDC North West Mental Health Development Council

NWPHO North West Public Health Observatory

NWRO North West Regional Office

NWU Neighbourhood Wardens Unit

NWRRL North West Regional Research Laboratory

NWSI Nurse with a Special Interest

NYA National Youth Agency

NYAS National Youth Advocacy Service

NYCDOHMH New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygene

O

O2 Oxygen

O-sign unresponsive person with mouth open and tongue still in mouth

OAC Open Access Clinic

OATs Out of Area Treatments - payments to trusts for care for patients from more distant areas Replaced ECRs

OBC Outline Business Case

OBD Occupied Bed Day

OBS - Output Based Specification

OBV Operation Black Vote

OC Operational Capital

OCD obsessive compulsive disorder

OCN Open College Network

OCPA Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments

OCR Optical Character Reader

OCS Organisational Codes Service

OCT Overseas Clinical Team

OD Organisational Development

or overdose

or Once Daily

or outside diameter

or Right eye

ODA Operating department assistant

or Overseas Doctors Agency

ODPM Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (obs)

ODTA Original Decision to admit

ODTS Overseas Doctors Training Scheme

ODO Operating Department orderly

OE On Examination

OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OEH Oxford Eye Hospital

OEL Occupational Exposure Limit

OFCOM Office of Communications

OFGEM Office of Gas and Electricity Markets

OFMDFM Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister

OFSTED Office for Standards in Education

OFT Office of Fair Trading

or Operational Fraud Team

OFV Opportunities For Volunteering

OFWAT Office of Water Services

OGC Office of Government Commerce

OGTT Oral Glucose Tolerance Test

OH Occupational Health

OHAG Oral Health Advisory Group

OHE Office of Health Economics

OHN Our Healthier Nation Cm3852

OHP Overhead Projector

OHS Occupational Health Service

OIC Officer in Charge

OIE Office International des Epizooties

OIHCP Office for Information on Health Care Performance

OISC Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner

OJEC Official Journal of the European Community

OLM Official Labour Management

om Omni mane - every morning

OMF Open Market Forces

OMNI Organising Medical Networked Information

OMP Ophthalmic Medical Practitioner

OMV Open Market Value

OMVEU Open Market Value in Existing Use

on omni nocte - every night

ONA Outpatient New Attendance

ONS Office for National Statistics The result of a merger in April 1996 of the Central Statistical Office and the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys

OOA Out of Area

OOH Out of Hours

OP Out-Patient

OPA Oropharyngeal Airway

OPAC Online Public Access Catalogue

OPCS Office of Population Census and Surveys Now ONS

OPD Out Patient Department

OPG Office of Public Guardian

OPHIS Office for Public Health In Scotland

OPM Office for Public Management

OPMHPB Older Peoples Mental Health Partnership Board

OPP Operational Planning Process