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Health and Social Services Glossary of Acronyms
(Starting with "L")
By
Martin Rathfelder,
Director, Socialist Health Association,
Manchester, UK
admin[at]sochealth.co.uk
http://www.sochealth.co.uk/glossary/glossary.htm
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L1-5 Bones in the lumbar
spine
LA Local Authority
LAA Local Authority Association
or Local Area Agreement
LAC Looked After Children -
A child who is looked after by a Local Authority and
a child who is in the care of the local authority
for more than 24 hours; or provided with accommodation
by the authority
or Local Authority Circular.
or Local Authority Company
LACOTS Local Authorities Co-ordinating
Body on Food and Trading Standards
LAD Local Authority District
LAFS Local Authority Financial
Settlement
LAN Local Area Network
LAP Local Area Partnership
or Local Action Plan
LAPIS Locality and Practice
Information
LARIA Local
Authorities Research & Intelligence Association
LAS Locum Appointment Service
or Lights And Siren
or London
Ambulance Service
LASA London
Advice Services Alliance
LASFE Local Authorities' Self-Financed
Expenditure
LASGLH Lights and sirens, go
like hell
LASS Local Authority Social
Services.
LASSL Local Authority Social
Services Letter
LAT Local Appointment for Training
LATF Local Asthma Taskforce
LATS Long-acting thyroid stimulator
LAWDC Local Authority Waste
Disposal Company
LAY Look After Yourself
LB London Borough
LBC London
Borough Council
LBGU London Borough Grants
Unit
LCC Leicester
City Council
or (obs) London County Council
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
or Lord Chancellor's Department (obs)
LCFS Local Counter Fraud Specialist
LD Learning Difficulties
or Local Democracy
or Liberal Democrat
LDA Local Development Agency
or London
Development Agency
LDAF Learning Disabilities
Award Framework
LDCÂ Local Dental Committee
- the statutory body comprised of GDPs
that represents dental practices in the local area.
LD/MH Learning Difficulties/
Mental Handicap
LDH Large Diameter Hose
LDL Low density lipoprotein
- high levels are harmful
LDP Local Delivery Plan
LDSAG Local Diabetes Service
Advisory Group
LE Lower Extremities
LEA Local Education Authority
LEC Local Enterprise Company
LEI Local Employment Initiative
LEL Lower Explosive Limit
LEO Leading Empowered Organisations
LETS Local
Exchange Trading Scheme
LFS Labour
Force Survey
LFT Liver Function Test
LGA Local
Government Association.
LGBT Lesbian Gay Bisexual and
Transgender
LGC Local
Government Chronicle
LGFR Local Government Finance
Report
LGFS Local Government Financial
Settlement
or Local Government Financial Statistics
LGHA Local Government &
Housing Act 1989
LGIB Local Government International
Bureau
LGIU Local Government Information
Unit
LGMB Local Government Management
Board
LGPS Local
Government Pension Scheme
LGV lymphogranuloma venereum
LH Luteinizing hormone
LHCC Local Health Care Co-operative
Scottish sort of PCG
LHG Local Health Group A sort
of Welsh PCG
LIF Left Iliac Fossa or
Local Initiatives Fund
LIFT Local
Improvement Finance Trust
LINC Library and Information
Commission (obs)
LIO Local Implementation Officer
or
Local Infrastructure Organisation
LIP Local Implementation Plans
LIS Local
Implementation Strategy
or Library Information System
LISI Low Income Scheme Index.
Measure of deprivation based on claims for exemption
from prescription charges on grounds of low income.
LIT Local Implementation Team
LIVJM Liverpool
John Moores University
LIZEI London Implementation
Zone Educational Initiative
LKKS Liver, Kidney, Kidney,
Spleen
LLL Life Long Learning
LLQ Left Lower Quadrant
LLSC Local Learning & Skills
Council
LLTI Limiting Long term Illness
LMA Laryngeal Mask Airway
LMCÂ Local Medical Committee - the statutory local
representative committee for all GPs in the area covered
by the health authority.
LMCA Long-term
Medical Conditions Alliance
LMP Last Menstrual Period
LMS Local Management of Schools
LMWAG Local
Medical Workforce Advisory Groups, formed in 1996
to co-ordinate postgraduate medical education between
groups of Trusts. There are around 5 or 6 in each
NHS Region.
LNRS Local Neighbourhood Renewal
Strategy
LOBNH Lights On But Nobody
Home
LOC Level of Consciousness
LOL Little Old Lady
LOS Length
of Stay. A measure of activity in hospital wards.
LNRS Local Neighbourhood Renewal
Strategy
LPC Local Pharmaceutical
Committee - a committee of pharmacists
LPG Liquified Petroleum Gas
LPM Litres Per Minute
LPS Local
Pharmaceutical Services
or Lipopolysaccaride
LPSA Local Public Service Agreement
LRD Labour
Research Department
LREC Local Research Ethics Committee
LRI Leicester
Royal Infirmary
LRR Local Reference Rent
LRS Lactated Ringers Solution
LRTI Lower
Respiratory Tract Infection
LSB Long Spine Board
or Local Schools Budget
LSC Legal
Services Commission
or Learning
& Skills Council
LSCG Local Specialised Commissioning
Group
LSCS lower segment caesarean
section
LSCWDC Lancashire and South
Cumbria Workforce Development Confederation
LSHTM London
School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
LSP Local
Strategic Partnership
LSTM Liverpool
School of Tropical Medicine
LSVT Large Scale Voluntary
Transfer
Lt Left
LTA Long Term Agreement
LTC Long Term Condition
LTH Luteotrophic, lactogenic
hormone - prolactin
LTM Learning to Manage Health
information
LTP Local Transport Plan
LTPS Liability to Third Parties
Scheme
LTSA Long term service agreement
LTVSÂ Long-term Ventilatory Support - help with breathing for
people who cannot breathe without it.
LTSA long term service agreement
LUQ Left Upper quadrant
LWPG Local Winter Planning
Group
LZ Landing Zone
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