A&E | Accident and Emergency |
AAT | Alcohol Action Team |
AFS | Alcohol Focus Scotland |
AIDS | Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
AMR | Antimicrobial Resistance |
ASD | Autistic Spectrum Disorder |
BSL | British Sign Language |
CAMH | Child and Adolescent Mental Health |
CATCH | Community Action on Tobacco for Children's Health |
CELSIUS | Clinical and Expanded Laboratory Surveillance of Illness of Unexplained or Unusual Severity |
CFS/ME | Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis |
CHD | Coronary Heart Disease |
CHSG | Child Health Support Group |
CI | Confidence Interval |
CMO | Chief Medical Officer |
COSLA | Convention of Scottish Local Authorities |
CRAG | Clinical Resource and Audit Group |
CRE | Commission for Racial Equality |
CSBS | Clinical Standards Board for Scotland |
CSO | Chief Scientist Office |
DAT | Drug Action Team |
ECOSS | Electronic Communication of Surveillance in Scotland |
EGAMS | Expert Group on Acute Maternity Services |
EHS3 | Environmental Health Surveillance System for Scotland |
ENT | Ear, Nose and Throat |
ESMI | Enhanced Surveillance of Mycobacterial Infections |
EU | European Union |
g | gram |
GP | General Practitioner |
HAART | Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy |
HAI | Healthcare Associated Infection |
HBV | Hepatitis B Virus |
HCV | Hepatitis C Virus |
HDL | Health Department Letter |
HEBS | Health Education Board for Scotland |
HIV | Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
HPA | Health Protection Agency |
HTBS | Health Technology Board for Scotland |
HUS | Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome |
IDU | Injecting Drug User |
IM&T | Information Management and Technology |
IS | Income Support |
ISD | Information and Statistics Division (of the Common Services Agency) |
JHIP | Joint Health Improvement Plan |
LAC | Local Area Co-ordinator |
LHCC | Local Health Care Co-operative |
m | million |
MCN | Managed Clinical Network |
MIB | Mobile information bus |
MMR | Mumps, Measles, Rubella |
MRC | Medical Research Council |
MRSA | Methicillin resistant
Staphylococcus aureus |
MSM | Men who have sex with men |
NHS | National Health Service |
NIASA | National Initiative on Assessment and Screening for Autism |
NICE | National Institute for Clinical Excellence |
NHS QIS | NHS Quality Improvement Scotland |
NRCEM | National Resource Centre for Ethnic Minority Health |
NSD | National Services Division (of the Central Services Agency) |
ONS | Office for National Statistics |
OR | Odds Ratio |
pa | per annum |
PATF | Physical Activity Task Force |
PCRMP | prostate cancer resource management pack |
PET | Positron Emission Tomography |
PHIS | Public Health Institute of Scotland |
PSA | prostate specific antigen |
RARARI | Remote and Rural Areas Resource Initiative |
RCGP | Royal College of General Practitioners |
REHIS | Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland |
RNID | Royal National Institute for the Deaf |
RoSPA | Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents |
RRAA | Race Relations Amendment Act 2000 |
SAMH | Scottish Association for Mental Health |
SBR | Scottish Birth Record |
SCHIDP | Scottish Child Health Information Development Project |
SCIEH | Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health |
SCIN | Scottish Cardiac Intervention Network |
SE | Scottish Executive |
SEBCHU | Scottish Evidence Based Child Health Unit |
SEHD | Scottish Executive Health Department |
SEISS | Scottish Environmental Incident Surveillance System |
SEPA | Scottish Environment Protection Agency |
SHAS | Scottish Health Advisory Service |
SHAW | Scotland's Health at Work |
SHCAS | Scottish Healthy Choices Award Scheme |
SHS | Scottish Health Survey |
SIGN | Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network |
SME | Small and medium sized enterprises |
SMR | Scottish Morbidity Record |
SNAP | Scottish Needs Assessment Programme |
SRIF | Scottish Refugee Integration Forum |
SSI | Surgical Site Infection |
STI | Sexually Transmitted Infection |
TB | Tuberculosis |
TSE | Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy |
US | United States |
UK | United Kingdom |
vCJD | variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
WHO | World Health Organization |