Health and Social Services Glossary of Acronyms (Starting with "B")

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Health and Social Services Glossary of Acronyms
(Starting with "B")

By Martin Rathfelder,
Director, Socialist Health Association,
Manchester, UK

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B2B Business to Business

BA Benefits Agency (obs)

or Bachelor of Arts

BAAF British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering

BACS British Association for Chemical Specialities

or Blood Alcohol Content

BACCH British Association for Community Child Health

BACTS British Association of Clinical Terminology

BACUP British Association of Cancer United Patients

BAEM British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine

BAMM British Association of Medical Managers

BAMS Benefit Agency Medical Service (obs)

BAN British Approved Name

BAO British Association of Otolaryngologists

BAOT British Association of Occupational Therapists

BAP British Association for Psychopharmacology

BAPS British Association of Paediatric Surgeons

or British Association of Plastic Surgeons

BAPT British Association of Physical Training

BARQA British Association of Research Quality

BASH British Association for the Study of Headache

BASICS British Association of Immediate Care

BASRaT British Association of Sports Rehabilitators and Trainers

BASSAC British Association of Settlements and Social Action Centres

BASW British Association of Social Workers

BAUS British Association of Urological Surgeons

BBP Blood-Borne Pathogen

BBS Bulletin Board System

BBV Blood borne virus

BC Block Contracting

or Borough Council

BCA Basic Credit Approval (part of capital control framework)

BCCCF Black Community Care Consultative Forum

BCD Black and Culturally Diverse

BCF Boundary Change Factor (part of SSA)

BCG Bacille Calmette-Guerin Vaccination for TB. Named after the scientists who developed the weakened strain of TB

or ballistocardiogram

BCHS Better Care Higher Standards

BCODP British Council of Disabled People

BCS British Computer Society

BCU Basic Command Unit (police)

BD Twice Daily - of medication

or BenzoDiazepine

BDA British Dental Association

or British Diabetic Association now called Diabetes UK

or British Dietetic Association

or British Dyslexia Association

BDD body dysmorphic disorder

BDH British Drug Houses (no longer trading)

BDS Bachelor of Dental Surgery

BEAM Biomedical Equipment Assessment and Management

BEHAF British Ethnic Health Awareness Foundation

BESS Benchill Ecumenical Service Scheme - three local churches which work together

BF Bio Feedback

BGOP Better Government for Older People (Cabinet Office/ LGA Initiative to give more people a say and encourage them to make a greater contribution to their communities (allegedly)

BGS British Geriatrics Society for Health in Old Age

BHAF Black HIV and AIDS Forum

BHAPS Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Ambulance and Paramedic Service

BHF British Heart Foundation

BHPS British Household Panel Survey

BIBRA British Industrial Biological Association

bid bis in die - twice daily

BIDS Bath Information and Data Services

BIIG Business Information In Government

BILD British Institute of Learning Disabilities

BIQ Back in Quarters

BIR British Institute of Radiology

BIRA British Institute of Regulatory Affairs

BiTC Business in the Community

BIVDA British in Vitro Diagnostics Association

BLEVE Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion

BLP Branch Labour Party - normally covering one ward

BLROA British Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Association

BLS Basic Life Support

BMA British Medical Association - the main doctors' Trade Union

BMAG Burnage Multi-Agency Group

BMCA Barlow Moor Community Association

BME Black and Minority Ethnic

BMI Body Mass Index (kg/m2)

BMIS British Medical Informatics Society

BMJ British Medical Journal - published by the BMA weekly

BMR Basal metabolic rate

BNF British National Formulary. Quarterly publication containing details of prescribed drugs

BNI British Nursing Index

BOA British Orthopaedic Association

BOGOF Buy One Get One Free

BOPCAS British Official Publications Current Awareness Service

BOS British Orthodontic Society

BP Blood pressure

or British Pharmacopoeia

or Boiling point

BPA British Paediatric Association

BPAS British Pregnancy Advisory Service

BPC British Pharmaceutical Codex

BPD Borderline Personality Disorder

BPH Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Enlargement of the prostate gland

BPMF British Postgraduate Medical Federation

BPPV benign paroxysmal positional vertigo

BPR Business Process Re-engineering

BPS British Pharmacological Society

BPSU British Paediatric Surveillance Unit

BQS Better Quality Services

BR Budget Requirement

BrAPP British Association of Pharmaceutical Physicians

BRI Bristol Royal Infirmary

BRT Big Red Trucks

BSA Basic Skills Agency

BSAD British Sports Association for the Disabled

BSc Bachelor of Science

BSCC British Society for Clinical Cytology

BSE Bovine Spongiform Encephalopthy. Mad Cow Disease. Causes a new form of CJD which has killed 156 people and caused HMG to spend many millions of pounds.

or Breast Self Examination

BSEC Basic Surgical Education Committee

BSH British Society for Haematology

BSI British Standards Institution

or British Society for Immunology

BSL British Sign Language

BSPED British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes

BSR British Society of Rheumatology

BST Basic Surgical Training

or Basic Specialist Training

BSVP Better Services for Vulnerable People; NHS and SSDs enjoined to be joined up in respect of 'priority' groups who are supposed to be benefiting from Community Care

BTCV British Trust for Conservation Volunteers

BTEG Black Training and Enterprise Group

BTS Blood Transfusion Service

or British Thoracic Society

BTW By The Way

BUGAUP Billboard Utilising Graffitists Against Unhealthy Promotions

BUNDY But Unfortunately Not Dead Yet

BUPA British United Provident Association

BURA British Urban Regeneration Association

BV Best Value (sometimes used for Best Value Indicator)

BVACoP Best Value Accounting Code of Practice

BVPI Best Value Performance Indicator