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

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

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

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N Normal

or Nocte - at night

N & N Norfolk and Norwich

NA Nursing Auxiliary

NAB National Assistance Board (1948-1966)

NAC National Abortion Campaign

NACAB National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux

NACC National Association for Colitis and Crohn's Disease

NACEPD National Advisory Council on Employment of People with Disabilities (obs)

NACGP National Association of Commisioning General Practitioners

NACPME National Advice Centre for Postgraduate Education

NACRO National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders

NACT National Association of Clinical Tutors

NACVS National Association of Councils for Voluntary Service

NAD Nothing Abnormal Detected, or perhaps Not Actually Done

or No Apparent Distress

NAFHP National Association of Fundholding Practices (obs)

NAGPT National Association of General Practice Tutors

NAGS NICE Appraisal Groups

NAHAT National Association of Hospital Authorities and Trusts (obs)

NAHT National Association of Head Teachers

NAHWT National Association of Health Workers and Travellers

NAI Non accidental injury

NANOS North American Neuro-Opthalmology Society

NANP National Association of Non-Principals (now NASGP)

NANT National Appraisal of New Technologies

NAO National Audit Office

NAPC National Association of Primary Care formed from dying embers of Fundholding National Association to represent interests of PCGs

NAPMECA National Association of Postgraduate Medical Education Centre Administration

NAPP National Association for Patient Participation

NAPS National Anti-Poverty Strategy (Ireland)

NAS National Autistic Society

NASEN National Association for Special Educational Needs

NASGP National Association of Sessional GPs

NASS National Asylum Support Service

NASUWT National Association of School-teachers / Union of Women Teachers

NATN National Association of Theatre Nurses

or National Association of Training Nurses

NatPaCT National Primary and Care Trust development programme

NAVB National Association of Volunteer Bureaux

NAVHO National Association of Voluntary Help Organisations

NAWO National Alliance of Women's Organisations

NB Nota bene - note well

NBA National Blood Authority

NBAP National Booked Admissions Programme

NBFI Not Bad For Ilkeston

NBG Lacking evidence of effectiveness

NBI National Beds Inquiry

NBS National Board for nursing, midwifery and health visiting for Scotland (obs)

NBTS National Blood Transfusion Service (obs)

NBV Net Book Value

NC Nasal Cannula

NCAA National Clinical Assessment Authority

NCBV National Coalition for Black Volunteering

NCC National Consumer Council

NCCA National Centre for Clinical Audit. Now absorbed into NICE

or National Community Care Alliance

NCCHTA National Co-ordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment

NCCG Non-Consultant Career Grade

NCCSDO National Co-ordinating Centre for NHS Service Delivery and Organisation Research and Development at the London School of Hygience and Tropical Medicine

NCE Net Current Expenditure

NCEPOD National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death

NCH National Children’s Home - Action For Children

NCI National Captioning Institute

NCIL National Centre for Independent Living

NCIS National Criminal Intelligence Service

NCEPOD Confidential Enquiry into Peri-operative Deaths. An enquiry into surgical disasters or possibly National Commission for Encouraging Patients to be Odd and Difficult

NCL National Civic League

NCMO National Case Mix Office

NCR New Commitment to Regeneration

NCS National Crime Squad

NCSC National Care Standards Commission (abolished 2004)

NCSL National College for School Leadership

NCT National Childbirth Trust. A powerful women's organisation.

NCV National Centre for Volunteering (obs)

NCVCCO National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations

NCVO National Council of Voluntary Organisations

NCVYS National Council for Voluntary Youth Services

ND New Deal

NDC National Disability Council

or New Deal for Communities

NDPB Non-Departmental Public Body

NDU Nurse Development Unit

NDPHS National Disabled Persons Housing Service

NDR Non-Domestic Rates (alternative name for business rates)

NDS New Deal for Schools

NDTMS National drug treatment monitoring system

NDYP New Deal for Young People

NEAS North East Ambulance Service

NEAT New and Emerging Applications of Technologies

NEC Cecrotising Enterocolitis

NED Non-Executive Director

NEET Not in Education Employment of Training

NEF New Economics Foundation

NEFA nonesterified fatty acids

NEJM New England Journal of Medicine

NELH National Electronic Library for Health

NERC Natural Environment Research Council

NES New Earnings Survey

NESTA National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts

NF Neurofibromatosis Hereditary neurological condition

or Nuffield Foundation

NFHA National Federation of Housing Associations (obs)

NFN Normal for Norfolk. This is a legendary acronym, and any sightings in the wild should be reported to me.

NFP Not for Profit

NFR Not for resuscitation

NFW No further work

NG Naso Gastric

NGfL National Grid for Learning (obs)

NGO Non Governmental Organisation

NHAIS National Health Authority Information Systems

NHD Notional Half Day

NHFA Nursing Homes Fees Agency a division of SB Tyler Clark, regulated by the Personal Investment Authority for investment
business

NHIH No Hope in Hell

NHL Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma

NHLI National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College

NHS National Health Service

NHS(S) National Health Service in Scotland

NHSAR National Health Service Administrative Register

NHSBSA NHS Business Services Authority

NHSBSP NHS Breast Screening Programme

NHSCA NHS Consultants Association

NHSCCC National Health Service Centre for Coding and Classification (obs)

NHSCR National Health Service Central Register

NHSE NHS Executive (abolished 2002)

NHSEED National Health Service Economic Evaluation Database

NHSEHU National Health Service Ethical Health Unit

NHSIA NHS Information Agency (abolished 2005)

NHSIMC National Health Service Information Centre

NHSL NHS Logistics

NHSLA National Health Service Litigation Authority

NHSME NHS Management Executive now called the NHSE, because we no longer believe in management.

NHSnet Intranet for the NHS

NHSP NHS Partners

NHSS National Health Service Supplies

or National Healthy Schools Standard

NHST National Health Service Trust

NHSTD National Health Service Training Directorate

NHSTF National Health Service Trust Federation

NHSTU National Health Service Training Unit

NHSU National Health Service University

NI National Insurance

NIACE National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education

NIAS Northern Ireland Ambulance Service

NIC Net Ingredient Cost. The basic price of a drug.

or National Insurance Contribution

NICARE Northern Ireland Centre for Health Care Co-operation and Development

NICE National Institute for Clinical Excellence

or Northern Institute for Continuing Education

NICEC National Institute for Carers and Educational Counselling

NICON NHS Confederation in Northern Ireland

NICS Northern Ireland Civil Service

NICU Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

NICVA Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action

NIH National Institute of Health

or Nuffield Institute for Health

NILO National Investment & Loans Office

NIMHE National Institute for Mental Health in England

NINo National Insurance Number

NIP Neighbourhood Improvement Programme (part of SRB6)

NIPPV Non Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation

NISS National Information on Software and Services now moved to HERO

NISW National Institute of Social Work (obs)

NJ Naso-Jejunal

NJC National Joint Council

NK Natural Killer (of cells)

NKDA No Known Drug Allergies

NLC National Lottery Commission

NLCB National Lottery Charities Board

NLIS National Land Information Service

NLM National Library of Medicine

NMAC National Medical Advisory Committee

NMC Nursing and Midwifery Council

NMET Non Medical Education and Training

NMGH North Manchester General Hospital

NMIS Nurse Management Information System

NMI Neuromuscular Impairment

NMS National Minimum Standards

NMSS Non Maintained Special School

NMW National Minimum Wage

NNDR National Non-Domestic Rates

NNT Number Needed to Treat

NOF National Opportunities Fund

NOAH National Office of Animal Health

NOCN National Open College Network

NOF New Opportunities Fund

NOMIS National Online Manpower Information Service

NOP National Opinion Polls

or Notification of Practice

NOS No other symptoms

or National Occupation Standards

NP National Park

NPA National Pharmaceutical Association

or Nasopharyngeal Airway

or National Park Authority

NPAT National Patients' Access Team

NPC National Prescribing Centre - based in Liverpool. Formerly known as MASC. Aims to promote high quality cost effective prescribing. Supports Health Authority professional advisers and practice support pharmacists by providing educational activities including therapeutics workshop. Published MeReC Bulletin which is distributed to all GPs on request.

or Net Present Cost

NPCRDC National Primary Care Research and Development Centre - based in the University of Manchester

NPFIT National Programme for IT in the NHS

NPG Modernising Health and Social Services: National Priorities Guidance HSC 1998/159

NPHT Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust (obs)

NPL National Physical Laboratory

NPO Nil Per Os (Nothing by mouth)

NPSA National Patient Safety Agency

NPT Near Patient Testing

NPV Net Present Value

NRB Non-ReBreathing

NRC National Regionalisation Consortium