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Health and Social Services Glossary of Acronyms
(Starting with "O")
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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O2 Oxygen
O-sign unresponsive person
with mouth open and tongue still in mouth
OATs Out
of Area Treatments - payments to trusts for care
for patients from more distant areas. Replaced ECRs.
OBC Outline Business Case -
Spells out the business case in terms of functional
need, anticipated costs and benefits, benefits realisation
plan, risk management strategy etc.
OBD Occupied
Bed Day
OBS - Output Based Specification
- spells out the detailed functional requirements
in terms of what a proposed system is required to
deliver
OCD obsessive compulsive disorder
OCN Open
College Network
OCPA Office
of the Commissioner for Public Appointments
OCR Optical Character Reader.
OCS Organisational Codes Service
ODÂ Organisational Development
or overdoseÂ
or Once Daily
or outside diameter
or Right eye
ODA Operating department assistant
or Overseas Doctors Agency
ODPM Office
of the Deputy Prime Minister
ODTS Overseas
Doctors Training Scheme
ODO Operating Department orderly
OE On Examination
OECD Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development
OEH Oxford
Eye Hospital
OEL Occupational Exposure Limit
OFSTED Office
for Standards in Education
OFT Office
of Fair Trading
OGC Office
of Government Commerce
OHAG Oral Health Advisory Group
OHE Office
of Health Economics
OHN Our
Healthier Nation Cm3852
OHP Overhead Projector
OHS Occupational Health Service
OIC Officer in Charge
OIE Office
International des Epizooties
OIHCP Office for Information
on Health Care Performance
OISC Office
of the Immigration Services Commissioner
OJEC Official
Journal of the European Community
om Omni mane - every morning
OMNI.
Organising Medical Networked Information
OMP Ophthalmic Medical Practitioner
OMV Open Market Value
OMVEU Open Market Value in
Existing Use
on omni nocte - every night
ONS Office
for National Statistics The result of a merger
in April 1996 of the Central Statistical Office and
the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.
OOH Out of Hours
OP Out-Patient
OPA Oropharyngeal Airway
OPAC Online Public Access Catalogue
OPCS Office
of Population Census and Surveys Now ONS.
OPDÂ Out Patient Department
OPHIS Office
for Public Health In Scotland
OPM Office for Public Management
OR Operation Research
os Occuli Sinistrus (Left Eye)
OS Ordnance
Survey
OSB Other Services Block (now
replaced by EPCS)
OSC Overview and Scrutiny Committee
OSCE Observed Structured Clinical
Examination
OSDLS Open
Source Digital Library System
OST Office of Science and Technology
OTÂ Occupational Therapy
OTC over
the counter (medicines not requiring a prescription)
ou Right Eye
OU Open
University
or Both eyes
OVE Occlusive Vascular Event
OWAM Organisation
with a Memory OWW
One World Week
OXERA Oxford
Economic Research Associates
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