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

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

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FA Friedreich's Ataxia

FAB Family Action Benchill

FACS Fair Access to Care Services

FACTS Framework for Appropriate Care Throughout Sheffield

FAQ Frequently asked questions

FARR Fixed Asset Restatement Reserve

FAWN Funding Advice Workers Network

FB Foreign Body

FBC Full Business Case - which is submitted to the NHSE for approval when a potential choice for a new development has been made and the costs are known

or Full Blood Count

FC Family Credit now replaced by Tax Credits

or Fixed Cost

or Factor Cost

FCAS Federation of Charity Advice Services

FCDL Federation for Community Development Learning

FCE Finished Consultant Episode - an episode where the patient has completed a period of care under one consultant within one hospital provider and is transferred to another consultant or discharged or dies

FCO Foreign and Commonwealth Office

FDA US Food and Drug Administration

FDGB Fall Down Go Boom

FDIU fetal death in utero

FDSRCSEng Fellow in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons in England

FDTL Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning

FE Further Education

FEC Further Education College

FEFC Further Education Funding Council disbanded on 31 March 2001 replaced by the Learning and Skills Council

FENTO Further Education National Training Organisation

FES Family Expenditure Survey

FFA free fatty acids

FFCE first finished consultant episode

FFDRCS Fellow of the Faculty of Dental Surgery Royal College of Surgeons

FFP Fresh Frozen Plasma

FH Family History

FHom Faculty of Homeopathy

FHR Fetal Heart Rate

FHS Family Health Services. Provided by GPs, GDPs, Optometrists, and Pharmacists

FHSA Family Health Service Authority. Role now taken over by the Health Authority

FHSAA Family Health Service Appeal Authority

FHT Fetal Heart Tones

FIAC Federation of Independent Advice Centres

FIBD Found In Bed Dead

FIG Food Initiatives Group

FIPO Federation of Independent Practitioner Organisations

FIS Financial Information Service (run by IPF) or System

or Family Income Supplement (became WFTC)

FITTA Fixed Term Training Appointment

FIU Fraud Investigation Unit

FLK Funny Looking Kid

FLM&D Funny Looking Mum & Dad

FMB Feeling Much Better

FMD Foot and Mouth Disease

FMP Financial Management Programme

FNA Fine Needle Aspiration

FOM Faculty of Occupational Medicine of Royal College of Physicians

FORD Found On Road Dead

FOTS Food on the Stove

FOTW Food on the Wok

fp freezing point

FP10 A prescription form.

FPA Family Planning Association

FPC Family Planning Clinic

or Family Practitioner Committee, which was replaced by the FHSA.

FPharmM Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine

FPHM Faculty of Public Health Medicine

FPS Family Planning Services

or Family Practitioner Services

FR Financial Regulation

FRCA Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists

FRCGP Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners

FRCOG Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

FRCOphth Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists

FRCP Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

FRCP(Ed) Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

FRCP(Glasg) Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow

FRCPath Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists

FRCPCH Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

FRCPE Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of England

FRCPI Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

FRCPS(Glasg) Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

FRCPsych Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

FRCR Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists

FRCS Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons

FRCS(Ed) Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

FRCS(Glasg) Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow

FRCSE Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

FRCSI Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland

FRED Financial Reporting Exposure Draft (draft FRS)

FRFPSG Fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

FRIPHH Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene

FRS Financial Reporting Standard

or Fellow of the Royal Society

FRSH Fellow of the Royal Society of Health

FS Fresh Start

FSA Food Standards Agency

or Financial Services Authority

FSH Follicle Stimulating Hormone

FSID Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths

FSM Free School Meals

FSO Forum Support Organisations

FSU Family Support Unit - now know as Family Unit (FU).

FT Full Time

or Foundation Trust

FTC Federal Trade Commission

Fte Full Time Equivalent

FU Family Unit. A mixture of residential and outreach work for children and young people and their families.

or follow up

FUBAR Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition

FUD Fear Uncertainty and Doubt - traditional salesman's weapons

FWATAG Flexible Working And Training Advisory Group

FWN Further Work Needed

Fx Fracture

FY Full Year

FY1 Foundation Year 1 (equivalent to House Officer)

FY2 Foundation Year 2 (equivalent to Senior House Officer)

fyc Full Year Cost

FYE Full Year Equivalent

or Effect

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