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

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

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

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H&S Health and Safety

HA Health Authority or

Housing Association

HAS Health Advisory Service

or Human Activity System

HaCCRU Health and Community Care Research Unit based in Liverpool University

HAG Housing Association Grant

HAI Health Acquired Infection

HARP Hulme Action Research Project - works with people with mental health problems

HAS Health Advisory Service

HASHD Hypertensive ArterioSclerotic Heart Disease

HASSASSA Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudication Act

HAT Housing Action Trust

HAZ Health Action Zone (obs)

Hb Haemoglobin

HB Health Board

or Housing Benefit

HBAI Households Below Average Income

HBG Health Benefit Group

HC Huntingdon's Chorea. Hereditary neurological condition. Now usually called Huntingdon's disease.

or Health Council

or Healthcare Commission

HCA Home Care Assistant - Social care Worker who provides domicilliary care. Formally known as home helps.

or Historic Cost Accounting

HCAG Hospital Consultants Advisory Group

HCG Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin

HCFA Health Care Financing Administration, the federal agency that administers the Medicare, Medicaid and Child Health Insurance Programs in the USA.

HCHS Hospital Community Health Service - hospital services, ambulances and certain community health services such as district nursing. These services are provided mostly by NHS Trusts.

HCIA Health Care Information, An American company which analyses health data. Now part of Solucient.

HCS Holiday Care Service

HCSP Health Care Service for Prisoners

HCW Health Care Worker Provides nursing support in clinical areas. NVQ qualified

HDA Health Development Agency (obs)

or Huntingdon's Disease Association

HDL High Density Lipoprotein

HDM House Dust Mite

HDU High Dependency Unit. One step down from the ITU

HE Health Education

or Higher Education

or haematoxylin and eosin

HEA Health Education Authority now replaced by the HDA

or Health Equity Audit

HEASIG High Ethnicity Authorities' Special Issues Group

HEBS Health Education Board for Scotland

HEED Health Economic Evaluations Database

HEENT Head Eyes Ears Nose and Throat

HEFC Higher Education Funding Council

HEI Higher Education Institution

HEIF Higher Education Innovation Fund

HELMIS Health Management Information Service

HEO Health Education Officer

HEP Health Education Partnership

HEPA High Efficiency Particulate Air

HERO Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the UK

HEROINE Health Electronic Resources Online In Northern England

HES Hospital Episode Statistics

HEVU Health Education Video Unit

HFA Hydrofluoroalkane

HFEA Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

HfHT Help for Health Trust (obs)

HFMA Healthcare Financial Management Association

HGC Human Genetics Commission

HIA Housing Improvement Agency

or Health Impact Assessment

HIB Haemophilus Influenzae type B

HIBCC Health Index Business Communications Council

HImP Health Improvement Programme - an action programme to improve health and healthcare locally .

HIMS Highland and Islands Medical Service

HIP Housing Investment Programme - Annual bidding process for local authority housing departments which determines regional and local allocation of public sector investment in both public and private sector housing

or Health Investment Programme

HIPE Hospital In-Patient Enquiry Scheme

HISN High Individual Support Needs

HISS Hospital Information and Support System

HIV Human Immuno-deficiency Virus

HIU Health Inequalities Unit

HIYE Health in Your Environment

HJSC Hospital Junior Staff Committee

HL7 Health Level 7

HLC Healthy Living Centre

HLF Heritage Lottery Fund

HLI Healthy Living Initiative