We often use words in our everyday language that you may not understand, so we thought a jargon buster might help just so you know what it means if you hear these terms.
General acronyms
- A&E - Accident and Emergency
- AHP - Allied Health Professional
- AIMS -Accreditation of Inpatient Mental Health Services
- AMHP - Approved Mental Health Professional - usually a social worker or nurse who assesses mental state under the mental health act.
- AP - Assistant Practitioner
- BCP - Business Continuity Plan
- CBT - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- CC - Care Coordinator
- CHC - Continuing Health Care
- CMHT - Community Mental Health Team
- CPA - Care Programme Approach
- CQC - Care Quality Commission
- CTO - Community Treatment Order - restrictions apply when out of hospital. This can be around compliance with medication.
- CTR - Care and Treatment Review
- DBT - Dialectal Behavioural Therapy
- DNA - Did Not Attend
- DOLS - Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
- DToC - Delayed Transfer of Care
- EAU - Emergency Assessment Unit
- ECT - Electro Convulsive Therapy
- EDT - Emergency Duty Team - an out of hours service of AMHPs.
- EIP - Early Intervention in Psychosis
- FFT - Family and Friends Test
- HCA - Healthcare Assistant
- HCSW - Healthcare Support Worker
- HTT - Home Treatment Team
- IAPT - Improving Access to Pyschological Therapies
- ICB - Intergrated Care Board
- KLOE - Key Lines of Enquiry, which are SCREW - Safe, Caring Responsive, Effective and Well-led.
- KPI - Key Performance Indicator
- LA - Local Authority
- LCHS - Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
- LD - Learning Disability
- LPA - Lasting Power of Attorney
- LPFT - Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- LPS - Liberty Protection Safeguards
- MCA - Mental Capacity Act
- MDM - Multi-Disciplinary Meeting - where all professionals involved meet up.
- Meriden - Behavioural Family Therapy, used by LPFT.
- MHA - Mental Health Act
- MHRT - Mental Health Review Tribunal
- MoJ - Ministry of Justice
- NA - Nursing Assistant
- NHSI - NHS Improvement
- NICE - National Institute of Clinical Excellence
- NMC - Nursing and Midwifery Council
- OP - Outpatient
- OPA - Outpatient Appointment
- OT - Occupational Therapy or Therapist
- PALS - Patient Advice and Liaison Service
- PCDU - Psychiatric Clinical Decisions Unit
- PEAT - Patient Environment Action Team
- PHB - Personal Health Budget
- PICU - Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit
- PLACE - Patient Lead Assessment of the Care Environment
- POC - Package of Care
- PPE - Patient and Public Engagement or Personal Protective Equipment
- PT - Physiotherapy or Physiotherapist
- RC - Responsible Clinician – usually the consultant psychiatrist involved with a patients care.
- RC - Recovery College
- RI - Restrictive Intervention – a taught technique whereby staff physically hold a person to prevent them from hurting themselves or others. Sometimes known as PMVA (Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression).
- SALT - Speech And Language Team
- SPA - Single Point of Access
- SW - Social Worker
- TFT - Thyroid Function Test
- TNA - Trainee Nursing Associate
- ULHT - United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust
- WRAP - Wellness Recovery Action Plan
- YCS - Young Carers Service
Medication acronyms
- PRN – as and when required medication
- BD – twice a day – usually talking about a frequency of medication
- TDS – three times a day – usually regarding medication frequency
- QDS – four times a day – usually regarding medication frequency
- Mane – in the morning – usually regarding medication frequency
- Nocte – at night – usually regarding medication frequency
- IM – intra muscular (injection) – an injection given to the patient into a muscle
- Depot – antipsychotic medication given in the form of an injection
- MR - Modified Release
- NRT - Nicotine Replacement Therapy
- SAM - Self-Administering Medicaiton
- CD - Controlled Drug
- RT - Rapid Tranquilisation
- EPSE - Extrapyramidal Side Effects
- SSRI - Selective Serotonin Reuptake inhibitor
- TCA - Tricyclic Antidepressant
- MAOI - Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor
- ADR - Adverse Drug Reaction
- C&M - Choice and Medication
- SCRIPT - Shortened word for prescription
