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

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

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

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MA Master of Arts

MAA Medical Artists Association of Great Britain

MAAQ Multidisciplinary Audit and Quality Group In Manchester replaced by the ACTS.

MAB Metropolitan Asylums Board (obs)

MAC Medical Advisory Committee

MACA Mental After Care Association now called Together

MACC Manchester Alliance for Community Care - An alliance of local voluntary organisations who share common views about the rights of disadvantaged people to live in the community.

MACHEM Manchester Action Committee on Health for Ethnic Minorities - now defunct

MADEL Medical and Dental Education Levy

MADEN Medical and Dental Education Network (obs)

MAE Moves All Extremities

MAES Manchester Adult Education Service

MAFF Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (now part of DEFRA)

MAGGOT Medically Able, Go Get Other Transportation

MALDA Multi Agency Learning Disability Assessment

MANCAS Manchester Care Assessment Schedule

MAP Management Action Plan

MAPS MIND Arts Project Stockport

MAR2C Matching Resources to Care - This is a mental health information system for caseload monitoring devised to study cases of serious mental illness. MARC2 can compare data from Social Services, Health Services and the voluntary sector.

MARMAP Multi Agency Risk Management Assessment Process

MARP Multi Agency Risk Assessment Panel - decides whether mentally ill people are dangerous

MAS Minimal Access Surgery

or Manchester Alcohol Service

MASC Medical Advisers Support Centre - See NPC

or Medical Academic Staff Committee

MASH Manchester Action on Street Health

MAST Multi-Agency Support Team

or Military Anti Shock Trousers

MASTA Medical Advisory Services for Travellers Abroad

MAT Medical Appeal Tribunal

MAVIS Mobility Advice and Vehicle Information Service

MB Medicinae Baccalaureus Basic medical degree. Usually with CHB

MBA Masters in Business Administration

MBBS Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery

MBC Metropolitan Borough Council

MC Medicines Commission

MCA Motorcycle Accident

or Medicines Control Agency

MCC Manchester City Council

or Millennium Control Centre

or Magistrates Courts Committee

or Manchester Chamber of Commerce

MCCR Manchester Council for Community Relations

MCDH A dentist's qualification

MCF Manchester Carers Forum - A co-ordinating group that provides support to carers. It provides an opportunity for carers’ viewpoints to be noted and represented in the wider community.

MChD Master of Dental Surgery

MChOrth Master of Orthopaedic Surgery

MCH mean corpuscular haemoglobin

MCHC mean corpuscular l haemoglobin concentration

MCHM Manchester Centre for Healthcare Management (obs)

MCI Mass Casualty Incident

MCIN Manchester Community Information Network run a network of computer terminals with a local information service

MCL Manchester Community Living - Social Services in-house provider division.

MCN Managed Clinical Network

MCO Managed Care Organisation

MCP Male Chauvinist Pig (obs?)

MCPJ metacarpal joint

MCQ Multiple Choice Questions

MCRG Medical Career Research Group

MCSP Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

MCV Main Corpuscular Volume

MD Medicinae Doctor (Doctor of Medicine) first medical degree (US version)

MDA Medical Devices Agency (obs)

MDD Medical Device Directorate

MDDUS Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland

MDG Muscular Dystrophy Group

MDI Metered Dose Inhaler

MDM medical decision making

MDO Mentally Disordered Offender

MDP Middle [school], Deemed Primary [school]

MDR Multiple Drug Resistant

MDS Master of Dental Surgery

or Middle [school], Deemed Secondary [school]

or Minimum Data Set

MDT Mobile Data Terminal

or Multi Disciplinary Team

MDU Medical Defence Union. Lawyers paid by insurance who defend doctors accused of negligence

or ut a me dictum - as directed by me

ME Myalgic Encephalitis

MEC Management Education for Clinicians

MEDITEL A GP Information system

MEDLARS Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System

MEDS Medical deputising service

MENCAP Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children &Adults

MEP Member of European Parliament

MEQ Modified Examination Question

MeReC MeReC Bulletin is published by the National Prescribing Centre

MERV Medical Emergency Response Vehicle

MESB Medical Education Standards Board

MeSH Medical Subject Headings

MESMAC Men who have sex with men

MESOL Management Education Scheme by Open Learning

METC Mersey Education and Training Consortium

MFA Malicious False Alarm

MFF Market Forces Factor

MFOccM Member of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine

MFPharmM Member of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine

MFPHM Member of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine

MFS Market Forces Supplement

mg Milligramme

MGA Myasthenia Gravis Association

MGC Museums & Galleries Commission (abolished 2000)

MGP Medendium Group Publishing

MGS Modernising Government Secretariat

or Manchester Grammar School

MHA Mental Health Act 1983

MHAC Mental Health Act Commission

MHC Major Histocompatability Complex

MHG Mental Health Grant

MHIG Mental Health Information Group

MHIS Mental Health Information Strategy

MHMDS Mental Health Minimum Data Set

MHPAF Mental Health Performance Assessment Framework

MHPSS Manchester Health Promotion Specialist Service

MHRA Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

MHRT - Mental Health Review Tribunal convened to hear appeals against detention under the MHA

MHT Mentalhealth Task Force

MHz Megahertz - megacycles per second

MI Myocardial Infarction - heart attack

or Mental Illness

MIDIRS Midwife Information and Resource Service

MIE Medical Informatics Europe

MIG Medical Information Group

MIGS Men In Grey Suits

MIMAS Manchester Information and Associated Services

MIMS Monthly Index of Medical Specialities. Guide to common prescribed drugs, inc. costs, used extensively in general practice

MIMMS Major Incident Medical Management and Support

MINAP Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project

MIND Organisation of mental health users

MINI Mental Illness Needs Index

MIQUEST A software system

MIRAS Mortgage Interest Relief at Source (obs)

MIS Management Information Systems

MISG Mental Illness Specific Grant - Government subsidy to supplement spending by local authorities on social care for mentally ill people living in the community.

MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MITAG Medical Information and Technology Advisory Group

MJ Municipal Journal

MLA Museums, Libraries and Archives Council

MLD Mild Learning Disability

MLSO Medical Laboratory Scientific Officer

MMC Modernising Medical Careers

mmhg Millimetres of mercury - what pressure is measured in.

MMedSci Master of Medical Science

MMHSCT Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust

mmol millimoles, a chemistry measurement

MMR Measles Mumps and Rubella vaccination

MMS Medical Management Services

MMSAC Medical Manpower Standing Advisory Committee

MMU Manchester Metropolitan University - formerly the polytechnic.

MMV Medicines for Malaria Venture

MND Motor Neurone Disease

MO Medical Officer

MOD Ministry of Defence

MOH Medical Officer of Health - a predecessor of the DPH

MOI Mechanism Of Injury

MOR Millennium Operating Regime

mp melting point

MP Member of Parliament

or Market Price

MPA Medical Prescribing Adviser

or Masters in Public Administration

MPC Medical Practices Committee (abolished 2002)

MPDS Medical Priority Dispatch System

MPET Multi-Professional Education and Training levy

MPH Master of Public Health

MPharm Master of Pharmacy

MPhil Master of Philosophy

MPIG minimum practice income guarantee

MPS Modernising Public Services Group

or Medical Protection Society

MPT Maximum Part Time

MPU Medical Practitioners Union - radical doctors' union - small medical section of Amicus

MRC Medical Research Council

MRCA Member of the Royal College of Anaesthetists

MRCGP Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners

MRCO Member of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists

MRCOG Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

MRCP Member of the Royal College of Physicians

MRCPath Member of the Royal College of Pathologists

MRCPCH Member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

MRCPsych Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

MRCR Member of the Royal College of Radiologists

MRCS Member of the Royal College of Surgeons

MREC Multicentre Research Ethics Committee

MRFIT Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial

MRHDOC Melton Rutland and Harborough GP co-operative

MRHF Manchester Race and Health Forum

MRI Manchester Royal Infirmary

or Magnetic Resonance Imaging - a scanning technology

mRNA Messenger RNA

MRO Medical Records Officer

MRP Minimum Revenue Provision (part of capital control framework)

MRPSG Metropolitan Railways Passenger Services Grant

MRSA Methycillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus. A bug which resists antibiotics and breeds in hospitals

MRSC Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

MS Multiple Sclerosis

or Manuscript

or Morphine Sulphate

MSAC Maternity Services Advisory Committee

MSc Master of Science

MSD Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd

MSDS Material Safety Data Sheet

MSF Union for skilled and professional workers, including many NHS employees. Formerly ASTMS. Now part of AMICUS

or Medicine Sans Frontiers

MSGP-4 National Study of Morbidity in General Practice

MSH melanophonre-stimulating hormone

MSHHF Moss Side & Hulme Health Forum

MSI Marie Stopes International

MSK Musculoskeletal

MSLC Maternity Services Liaison Committee brings together professions involved in maternity services with lay people to agree procedures and monitor their effectiveness as they appear to individual women.

MSM men who have sex with men

MSOTW Man Slumped Over The Wheel

MSP Member of the Scottish Parliament

MSPCG Most Sparsely Populated Councils Group

MSS Manchester Social Services

MSSU Midstream Specimen of Urine

MSU Medium Secure unit or short for MSSU

MTA Management Team Assistant

or Message Transfer Agent (part of an email system)

MTB Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

MTFP Medium Term Financial Plan

MTO Medical Technical Officer