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

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

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I4H Information for Health

I&D Incision & Drainage

IADL Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

IAFC International Association of Fire Chiefs

IAFF International Association of Fire Fighters

IAG Information Age Government

IAGI Intended Average Gross Income

IANI Intended Average Net Income

IAPO International Alliance of Patients' Organisations

IAVI International Aids Vaccine Initiative

ICATS Integrated Clinical Assessment and Treatment Services

IBMS Institute of Biomedical Science

IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome

ICA Invalid Care Allowance now replaced by Carers Allowance

ICAS Independent Complaints Advisory Service

ICC Industry Consultative Committee

or Integrated Child Credit

ICD The World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (now on 10th revision)

ICES Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences

ICF Intracellular Fluid

ICFM Institute of Charity Fundraising Managers Trust

ICHS International Centre for Health and Society

ICN Integrated Care Network

ICP Integrated Care Pathway

or IntraCranial Pressure

ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross

ICT Information Communication Technology

ICU Intensive care unit

ICW Integrated Clinical Workstation

or Indigenous Community Worker

ID Identify/Indentification

ID2000 Indices of Deprivation 2000

IDA Improvement Development Agency

IDDM Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus

IdeA Improvement & Development Agency

IDF International Diabetes Federation

IEMC Interbalkan European Medical Center

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

IFM Information for the Management of Healthcare

IFN Interferon

IFPMA International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations

IFS Institute for Fiscal Studies

IgG Immunoglobulin G (as opposed to IgD, IgE, IgM, IgA)

IHE International Health Exchange

IHEEM Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management

IHF International Hospital Federation

IHM Institute of Healthcare Management

IHRIM Institute of Health Record Information and Management

IHSM Institute of Health Service Managers - now part of the IHM

II Intensive Interaction

IiP Investors in People

IL Interleukin

ILA Individual Learning Account

ILAF Independent Local Advisory Forums

ILCOR International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation

ILD Index of Local Deprivation (replaced by IMD)

ILF Independent Living Fund

ILM Intermediate Labour Market

ILP Independent Living Project

ILSI International Life Sciences Institute

IM Intramuscular

IMA Irish Medical Association

IM & T Information Management & Technology

IMCO Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (of the European Parliament)

IMD Index of Multiple Deprivation

IMHO In My Humble Opinion

imp impression - as in I don't know the diagnosis here

IMR Infant Mortality Rate

INASP International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications

INES International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility

INLOGOV Institute Of LOcal GOVernment studies

INSET IN-SErvice Training

INTRANET An exclusive and private type of internet inside an organisation.

IOP Instiute of Psychiatry

IoS Item of Service Something that GPs get paid for on a itemised basis under the terms of the Red Book

IPF Institute of Public Finance

IPH Improvement Partnership for Hospitals

IPPC Integrated Pollution Prevention Control

IPPF International Planned Parenthood Federation

IPPR Institute of Public Policy Research

IPPU Intermittent Positive Pressure Ventilation

IPR Individual Performance Review

IPS Integrated Personnel System

or formerly the Indicative Prescribing Scheme

IPR Individual Performance Review

IR Inland Revenue (obs)

IRC Internet Relay Chat

IRL Initial Resource Limit

IRP Independent Reconfiguration Panel

IRR Internal Rate of Return

IRRV Institute of Revenues, Rating & Valuation

IRT Identification, Referral and Tracking

IS Income Support. Formerly Supplementary Benefit, and before that National Assistance, before that the Poor Law.

or Independent Sector

ISB Invest to Save Budget

or Individual Schools Budget

ISBA Incorporated Society of British Advertisers

ISBN International Standard Book Number

ISD Information and Statistics division

ISDD Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network - Cabling for fast digital transmission.

or It Still Does Nothing.

ISE Individualised Sensory Environment

ISG Information Services Group

ISIP Integrated Service Improvement Programme

ISO International Organization for Standardization

or Infrastructure Support Organisation

ISP Internet Service Provider

ISPOR International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research

ISQ In Status Quo

ISQua International Society for Quality in Health Care

IST Intensive Support Team

ISTAHC International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care

ISTC Independent Sector Treatment Centres

IT Information Technology

ITN Invitation to Negotiate

ITS Independent Tribunal Service - now replaced by the Appeals Service

ITT Invitation To Tender

ITU ICU - the terms are interchangeable

or Internal Trading Unit

IUD Intra-Uterine Device (a Contraceptive coil)

or Intrauterine Death (A type of miscarriage).

IUHPE International Union for Health Promotion and Education

IV Intravenous

or Independent Variable

IVF In Vitro Fertilisation. Sex in a test tube, where the normal methods haven't produced any result.

IVP Intravenous Pyelogram. X-ray of the urinary tract

IVPB IntraVenous Piggy Back

IWCCE Isle of Wight Centre for the Coastal Environment

IWL Improving Working Lives

IYF Inter Year Flexibility

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