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

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

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

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C&B Choose and Book

C1-7 Cervical spine bones (in the neck)

C2H5OH +++ Drunk

CA Cancer

or Countryside Agency

or Conjoint Analysis

or California

or Canada

CAB Citizens Advice Bureau

CABA Compressed Air Breathing Apparatus

CABG Coronary Artery Bypass Graft

CABE Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment

CADO Chief Administrative Dental Officer

CAEF Clinical Audit and Effectiveness Forum

CAF Charities Aid Foundation

CAFCASS Children And Family Court Advisory Support Service

CAIT Citizens Advocacy Information and Training

CALL Cancer Aid Listening Line

CAM Complementary and Alternative Medicine

CAMHS Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services - Joint Local and Health Authority services to young people with mental health problems.

CAMO Chief Administrative Medical Officer

CAMS Computer Aided Medical Systems

CAN Community Action Network

CANO Chief Area Nursing Officer

CAOx4 Conscious, Alert, and Oriented x4

CAP Common Agricultural Policy

or Communities Against Poverty

CAPD Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis for people with kidney failure

CAPM Capital Asset Pricing Model

CAPO Chief Administrative Pharmaceutical Officer

CAPS Crown Agents Purchasing Services Ltd

CARE Clinical Audit and Research Evidence

or Craniofacial Anomalies Register

CAS Care Assessment Schedule

or Chemical Abstracts

or Community Accountancy Service

or Controls Assurance Statement

CASE Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion

CASH Consensus Action on Salt and Health

CASP Critical Appraisal Skills Programme

CASPE Clinical Accountability Service Planning and Evaluation conducts research into health care data and its uses

CAT Computerised Axial Tomography - a scanning technology

or Critically Appraised Topic.

or Community Alcohol Team

CATS Credit Accumulated Transfer Scheme

CAWG Controls Assurance Working Group

CB Citizen's Band radio

CBA Cost Benefit Analysis

CBI Confederation of British Industry

CBIS Capacity Building Infrastructure Strategy

CBIT Capacity Building Implementation Team

CBRN Chemical, Biological, Radioacative and Nuclear

CBS Commissioning Business Service

CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

or Computer Based Training

CC County Council

or cum cibis - with food

or Chief Complaint

or City Council

or Charity Commission

CCA Cost-Consequence Analysis

or Current Cost Accounting

CCAB Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies

CCBR Community Capacity Building Review

CCBT Computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

CCC NHS Centre for Coding and Classification.

CCCG Cochrane Colorectal Cancer Group

CCDC Consultant in Communicable Disease Control

CCE Completed Consultant Episode - the same as an FCE

CCEPP Cochrane Collaboration on Effective Professional Practice - now called EPOC

CCETSW Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work (abolished October 2001)

CCG Community Care Grant

CCHR Citizens Commission on Human Rights

CCN County Councils' Network

or Change Control Notice

CCP Community Care Plan

or Change Control Procedure

CCR Cross Cutting Review

CcRISP Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient

CCSC Central Consultants and Specialists Committee

CCSI Critical Care Skills Institute

CCSR Cross Cutting Spending Review

CCST Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training for junior doctors

CCT Compulsory Competitive Tendering. A sort of Dutch Auction of public services, now partly replaced by the Best Value process

CCTR Cochrane Controlled Trials Register

CCTV Closed Circuit TeleVision

CCU Coronary care unit

CD Clinical Director

or Clinical Directorate

or Civil Defence

or Cluster of Differentiation

CD-ROM Compact Disc Read Only Memory

CDC Corporate & Democratic Core

or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDDS Council of Deans of Dental Schools

CDER Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

CDHN Community Development and Health Network

CDM Chronic Disease Management

or Construction, Design and Management

CDNA Community and District Nursing Association

CDO Chief Dental Officer

CDRP Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership

CDS Contract Data Set - A collection of information recorded by the NHS Trust that identifies a patient and their treatment which is sent to the Health Authority

or Community Dental Service

CDSC Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre now the HPA Centre for Infections

CDSM Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials (abolished 1994)

CDSR Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

CDU Child Development Unit

or Central Delivery Unit

or Colourflow Duplex Ultrasound

CDX Community Development Exchange

CE Chief Executive

CEA Cost Effectiveness Analysis

CED Community Economic Development

CEDC Community Education Development Centre

CEEU Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit of the RCP

CEF Community Empowerment Fund

CEFET Central England Forum for European Training

CEMACH Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health

CEMD Confidential Enquiry Into Maternal Deaths (obs)

CEMVO Council of Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector Organisations

CEN Community Empowerment Network

CEO Chief Executive Officer

CEPOD Confidential Enquiry into Peri-Operative Deaths

CERA Capital Expenditure, Revenue Account

CERES Consumers for Ethics in Research

Cert HSM Certificate in Health Services Management

CES Charities Evaluation Services

CESDI Confidential Enquiry into Sudden Deaths of Infants

CESH National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide By People With Mental Illness

CESG Communications Electronics Security Group

CF Cystic Fibrosis

CFA Combined Fire Authority

CFC Chlorofluorocarbon

CFF Crime Fighting Fund

CfH Connecting For Health

CFI Community Finance Initiative

CFISSA Centrally Funded Initiatives and Services and Special Allocations

CFN Community Foundation Network

CFO Chief Finance Officer or

Conventionally Financed Option or

Co-Financing Public Sector Intermediary Organisation

CfPS Centre for Public Scrutiny

CFR Capital Financing Reserve

CFRC Children and Family Resource Centre

CFS Chronic Fatigue Syndrome closely associated with ME

CFSMS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service

CG Clinical Governance

CGD Chronic Granulomatous Disease

CGF Child Growth Foundation

CGI Common Gateway Interface

CGST Clinical Governance Support Team

CHAI Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection

CHAIN Contact Help Advice and Information Network

CHAOS Chief Has Arrived on the Scene

CHART Community Health Action Resource Team

CHB Chirurgiae Baccalaureus Basic surgical degree not usually seen by itself without the MB

CHC Community Health Council (now only in Wales)

CHD Coronary Heart Disease - a group of clinical syndromes including angina pectoris, acute myocardial infarction and sudden ischaemic death.

CHDGP Collection of Health Data from General Practice project

CHDRH Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital NHS Trust

CHESTCombined Higher Education Software Team

CHEX Community Health Exchange

CHF Congestive Heart Failure

CHG Community Hospitals Group (now taken over by BUPA)

CHI Commission for Health Improvement (obs)

or Community Health Index

CHIA Comprehensive Health Impact Assessment

CHIME Centre for Health Informatics in Medical Education

CHIP City Housing Improvement Plan

CHIQ Centre for Health Information Quality (obs)

CHIR Canadian Institutes of Health Research

CHIRP Confidential Human Factors Incident Reporting Procedure

ChM Chirurgiae Magister (Master of Surgery)

CHMS Council for Heads of Medical Schools

CHMU Central Health Monitoring Unit (obs)

CHNT Christies Hospital NHS Trust

CHOU Central Health Outcomes Unit

CHP Community Health Partnership

or Combined Heat and Power

CHRC Community Health and Resource Centres

CHS Community Health Services

or Chest Heart and Stroke

or Centre for Horizon Scanning, University of Birmingham

or Child Health Surveillance

CI Clinical Indicator

CIA Chief Internal Auditor

CIC Common Information Core or

Charitable Incorporated Organisation

CIM Capital Investment Manual

CIMA Chartered Institute of Management Accountants

CIMP Clinical Information Management Programme

CIMS Coalition for Improving Maternity Services

CINAHL Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health

CIO Confederation of Indian Organisations or

Charitable Incorporated Organisation

CIOT Chartered Institute of Taxation

CIPD Chartered Institute of Personnel Development

CIPFA Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountancy

CIPG Community Investment Partnership Group

CIS Clinical Information System

or Commonwealth of Independent States (republics of former USSR)

CISH Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Mental Health

CISIG Coastal Issues Special Interest Group

CIT Capacity Implementation Team

CITU Central Information Technology Unit - (obs)

CIX The Commercial Internet eXchange Association

CJC Commissioning Joint Committee

CJD Creutzfeld Jacob Disease

CLA Commissioner for Local Administration (the ombudsman)

CLAPA Cleft Lip and Palate Association

CLDT Community Learning Disability Team

CLGMS Cash Limited General Medical Services

CLib Cochrane Library

CLIP Central-Local Information Partnership

or CLinical Improvements Database

CLL Chronic Low Life

CLP Constituency Labour Party

or Central-Local Partnership

CLS Community Legal Service

CM Community Midwife

CMA Cost Minimisation Analysis

CMAJ Canadian Medical Association Journal

CMB Central Midwives Board

cm cras mane - tomorrow morning

CMD Continuing Medical Development

CME Continuing Medical Education

CMF Capital Modernisation Fund

CMHN Community Mental Handicap Nurse (obsolete)

CMHSD Centre for Mental Health Services Development, Kings College London

CMHT Central Manchester Healthcare Trust

or Community Mental Health Team

CML Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia

CMMC Central Manchester and Manchester Children's NHS Trust

CMMS Case Mix Management System

CMO Chief Medical Officer

or Clinical Medical Officer

or Community Medical Officer

CMP Civilian Medical Practitioner

CMPCT Central Manchester PCT

CMPS Centre for Management and Policy Studies

CMT Corporate Management Team

CMV cytomegalovirus

CN Charge Nurse

CNM Clinical Nurse Manager

CNN Cable Network News

CNO Chief Nursing Officer

CNS Central Nervous System

or Clinical Nurse Specialist

or Community Nursing Service

CNST Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts

CO Cabinet Office

or Course Organiser

or Complains Of

or carbon monoxide

or Chief Officer

or Capital Out-turn

CO2 carbon dioxide

COAD Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease - usually called COPD

CoAg Countryside Agency

COCH Countess of Chester Hospital

COGPED Committee of General Practice Education Directors

COGIT Chief Officers’ Group of Information Technology

COI Central Office of Information

COIN Circulars On the INternet: All the HSCs etc. (obs)

or Clinical Oncology Information Network (obs)

COMA Committee on Medical Aspects of Nutrition (abolished 2000)

COMARE Committe on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment

COMEAP Committee On the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants

COPC Community Oriented Primary Care

COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

COPDenD Conference of Postgraduate Dental Deans

COPE Committee on Publication Ethics

COPMED Conference of Postgraduate Medical Deans

COR Capital Out-turn & Receipts return

CORE Clinical Outcomes Research and Effectiveness

COREC Central Office for Research Ethics Committees

COSHH Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations

COT Committee on Toxicity

CP Cerebral palsy

or Community Plan

or Communist Party

CPA Care Programme Approach Patients needs for care are assessed on a four point scale. Level 4 means that you are dangerously ill and need supervision. Level 1 means that you are not thought to need anything more than a bit of advice and counselling.

or Comprehensive Performance Assessment

or Clinical Pathology Accreditation

CPAG Child Poverty Action Group

or Capital Prioritisation Advisory Group

CPAP Continuous Positive Airway Pressure

CPC Cost Per Case

CPCCH Consultant Paediatrician in Community Child Health

CPCME Centre for Postgraduate and Continuing Medical Education

CPCU Child Protection Co-ordination Unit

CPD Continuing Professional Development

CPEP Clinical Practice Evaluation Programme

CPFA Charted Public Finance Accountant

CPGB Communist Party of Great Britain - an organisation with ambitions to change the world and with the appearance but not the reality of democratic control - just the like the NHS.

CPH Certificate in Public Health

CPHL Central Public Health Library

CPHM Certified Professional in Healthcare Materiel Management

CPHVA Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association - part of AMICUS

CPMP Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products

CPN Community Psychiatric Nurse

CPNA Community Psychiatric Nurses Association - now the Mental Health Nursing Association

CPO Chief Pharmaceutical Officer

CPOD Centre for Professional and Organisational Development

CPPIH Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health

CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation - what the crash team does, or you can learn to do it yourself

or Come Put-em-ta Rest

or Capital Payments & Receipts return

or Child Protection Register

CPRE Council for the Protection of Rural England

CPSM Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine

CPU Contracts & Purchasing Unit

or Central Processing Unit

CPWP Capital Programmes Working Party

CQSW Certificate of Qualification of Social Work abolished 1989

CRAG Charging for Residential Accommodation Guide. Guidance for local authorities on community care financial assessment

Or Clinical Resource and Audit Group, now part of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland

CRAGPIE Committee of Regional Advisers in General Practice Education (obs)

CRANE Craniofacial Anomalies Register

CRASH Co-ordinated Research in to Accidents on Salford Highways

CRAFT Can't Remember a Fucking Thing

CRB Criminal Records Bureau

CRC Clinical Research Centre

or Cancer Research Campaign

CRCF Conference of Royal Colleges and their Faculties

CRD Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

CRDC Central Research and Development Committee

CRE Commission for Racial Equality

CRED Clinical Governance/Education and R&D subgroup

CRES Cash Releasing Efficiency Savings

CRHP Council for the Regulation of Healthcare Professionals

CRIO Chief Registration & Inspection Officer - Responsible for the Health and Social Service Registration and Inspection Units and Guidance-ad-Litem service.

CRMD Cochrane Review Methodology Database

CRT Community Rehabilitation Team

or Cathode Ray Tube

or Coalfields Regeneration Trust

CRU Civil Renewal Unit (Home Office)

CS Capital Strategy

CSA Child Support Agency

CSAG Clinical Standards Advisory Group

CSASHS Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service

CSC Community Sector Coalition

CSCI Commission for Social Care Inspection

CSCM Civil Service Corporate Management