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

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

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D5W Dextrose 5% in Water

D&C Dilatation & Curettage - a gynaecological procedure of questionable usefulness

D&T Drugs and Therapeutics

D/C DisContinue

or Discharge

DA Distributable Amount

or District Audit

DA(SER) Domestic Affairs Subcommittee (of the Cabinet) on Social Exclusion and Regeneration

DAAT Drug and Alcohol Team

DAN Disabled People's Direct Action Network

DANS Duty Assessment Nurses

DARE Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness

DART Drug and Alcohol Resistance Training

DASG Drugs and Alcohol Specific Grant

DASS Director of Adult Social Services

DAT Drugs Action Team

or Disability Appeal Tribunal (obs)

or Digital Audio Tape

DATA Distress Awareness Training Agency

DBFO Design Build Finance and Operate

DC District Council

DCA Department for Constitutional Affairs

DCFS Directorate of Counter-Fraud Services (obs)

DCMS Department for Culture, Media & Sport

DCT Disabled Children’s Team

DDA Disability Discrimination Act 1995,

Also The Disabled Drivers' Association

DDD Defined Daily Dose.

DDPHRCS Diploma in Dental Public Health, Royal College of Surgeons of England

DDRB Doctors and Dentists' Review Body

DEB Dental Estimates Board

DEC Development and Evaluation Committee replaced by NICE March 2000

DEFRA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

DEL Departmental Expenditure Limit

DERA Defence Evaluation Research Agency Dissolved July 2001

DES DiEthyl Stilbestrol

DETR Department of Environment, Transport & the Regions (no longer exists)

DFBO Design, Finance, Build & Operate

DfEE Department for Education and Employment (now renamed)

DfES Department for Education and Skills

DFFP Diploma of the Faculty of Family Planning

DFG Disabled Facilities Grant

DFID Department for International Development

DFO Done Fell Out

DFT Distance From Target

or Department of Transport

DG5 The Public Health part of the European Union

DGF Damn Good Fuck - often prescribed by male doctors for neurotic women. Compliance rate is unknown because such patients are often lost to follow up.

DGH District General Hospital

DGM District General Manager

DH Department of Health

DHA District Health Authority (obs April 2002)

DHSC Directorate of Health and Social Care (obs)

DHSS Department of Health and Social Security later split into DoH and DSS

DHTML Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language

DI Donor Insemination

DIA Drug Information Association

DIAL Disablement Information And Advice Lines

DIC Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation. A common complication of surgery.

or Dead in Car

DID Dissociative Identity Disorder

DIG Disablement Income Group

DIPEx Database of Individual Patient Experiences

DIPG Drug Information Pharmacists Group

DIPHSM Diploma in Health Services Management

DipSW Diploma in Social Work

DIRTBAG Dirty Indigent Requesting Transport Because Alcohol Gives (him) seizures

DIS Departmental Investment Strategy

DISP Developing Information System for Purchasers

DISS Disability Information Service Surrey

DisCASS Disabled Citizens Advice and Support Service

DKA Diabetic KetoAcidosis

DLA Disability Living Allowance. Benefit for people who have trouble walking or are in need of personal care.

DLCV Drugs of Limited Clinical Value

DLF Disabled Living Foundation

DLO Direct Labour Organisation

DMARD Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug

DMC District Medical Committee

DMDDuchenne Muscular Dystrophy

DMF Disabled Motorists Federation

DMFT Number of Decayed, Missing or Filled Teeth  

DMHE Department of Mental Health for the Elderly 

DMO District Medical Officer (obs)

DMT Departmental Management Team

DMU Directly Managed Unit

DN District Nurse

DNA Did Not Arrive - or attend

or Deoxyribonucleic Acid

DNER Distributed National Electronic Resource

DNGNet Disability Network Group

DNI Do Not Intubate (similar to DNR)

DNR Do Not Resuscitate

DNS Director of Nursing Services

or Domain Name Server

DNW Drugs North West

DOA Dead on Arrival

or Date of Accident (in A&E depts)

or Date of Admission

DOB Date of birth

DOCA Deoxycorticosterone acetate

DoF Director of Finance

DOGPE Director of General Practice Education

DoH Department of Health - the Government Department responsible for healthcare in England.

DPB Dental Practice Board

DPH Director of Public Health

DPI Disabled Peoples' International

DPR Directorate Performance Review

DPT Diptheria Pertussis Tetanus vaccine

DPTC Disabled Person's Tax Credit (now abolished)

DRC Disability Rights Commission

or Depreciated Replacement Cost

DRF Direct Revenue Funding

DRG Diagnosis Related Group

DRS Dental Reference Service

DRT Dead Right There

DRTTTT Dead Right There, There, There, and There (used after pedestrian/train altercations)

DSC Disability Services Centre or

Directory of Social Change

DSD Decontamination Services Department

Dsh deliberate self harm

DSO Direct Service Organisation

DSON Detailed Statement Of Need

DSPD Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder

DSS Department of Social Security. Now the DWP

or Decision Support System

DSU Day Surgery Unit

DTA Development Trusts Association

DTB Drug and Therapeutic Bulletin

DTC Day Treatment Centre

or Diagnostic and Treatment Centre

DTD Document Type Definition

DTI Department of Trade and Industry

DTLR Department for Transport, Local Government and Regions (obs)

DTNI Day Time Net Inflow

DTTO Drug Testing and Treatment Order

DTP Diphtheria Tetanus Pertussis - a vaccine

DUI Driving Under the Influence

DV Dependent Variable

or Domestic Violence

or domiciliary visit

or Deo Volente (God willing)

DVLA Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

DVT Deep Vein Thrombosis

DWA Disability Working Allowance. A benefit for people working at least 16 hours a week who have a disability affecting their working ability. Now replaced by DPTC

DWM Dead White Male

DWP Department for Work and Pensions

Dx Diagnosis

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