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

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

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

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P A pharmacy medicine

Pa Pascal

PA Police Authority

or Personal Assistant

PAC Public Accounts Committee

PACE Property Advisers to the Civil Estate

or Promoting Action on Clinical Effectiveness

or Police & Criminal Evidence Act 1984

PACS Picture Archiving and Communication System - a replacement for X-ray film

PACT Prescribing Analysis & Costs - GPs get regular PACT reports from the PPA giving details of their recent prescribing, comparing them with local and national averages.

or Placing, Assessment and Counselling Team

PAD Perpheral Arterial Disease

PAF Performance Assessment Framework

or Public Audit Forum

PAFO Pissed And Fell Over

PAGB Proprietary Association of Great Britain

PALS Patient Advice and Liaison Service

PAMIS Parliamentary Monitoring & Intelligence Service

PAMP Pathogen Associated Molecular Pattern

PAMs Professions Allied to Medicine - e.g. physiotherapists, OTs etc.

PAR Programme Analysis & Review

PAS Patient Administration System. A main hospital database

PASA Purchasing and Supply Agency

PASG Pneumatic Anti-Shock Garment

PAT Paroxysmal Atrial Tachycardia

or Personnel Accountability Tag

or Professional Association of Teachers

or Policy Action Team

PAYE Pay as you Earn

PBC Public Benefit Corporation

or Practice Based Commissioning

PBL Problem Based Learning

PBR Pre-Budget Report

or Payment By Results

PBRS Public Benefit Recording System

PBx Private Branch Exchange (type of internal telephone network)

PC Primary care

or personal computer

or politically correct

or post cibos - after meals

or Parish Council

or Public Convenience or

Patients' Council

PCA Patient controlled analgesia - usually a morphine pump

PCAG Primary Care Audit Group

PCAP Primary Care Act Pilot - the NHS (primary care) Act 1997 allows NHS Trusts, NHS employees, qualified bodies and suitably experienced medical practitioners to submit proposals to provide general medical services under a contract with the health authority.

PCG Primary Care Group (obs) See HSC 1998/230.

or phonocardiogram

PCHR Personal Child Health Record

PCIP Primary Care Investment Plan

PCL Provision for Credit Liabilities

PCMCN Peninsula Cardiac Managed Clinical Network

PCO Primary Care Organisations

PCP Personal Communication Profile

or Person Centred Planning

PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction

PCRC Primary Care Resource Centre

PCRG Policing & Crime Reduction Group (part of the Home Office)

PCS public and commercial services union

PCT Primary Care Trust

PCV packed cell volume

PDC Public Dividend Capital

PDD Prescribed Daily Dose - the average daily dose which is actually prescribed

or Pervasive Development Disorder

PDFPortable Document Format. A way of publishing electronically which preserves printed formatting information. Needs Adobe Acrobat to view

or Partnership Development Fund

PDO Property Damage Only

PDP Practice Development Plan

or Personal Development Plan

PDR Personal Development Review

PDS Primary Dental Service

or Parkinson's Disease Society

PDSA Plan Do Study Act

PE Physical Examination

or Pulmonary Embolism

PEA Pulseless Electrical Activity

PEARL Pupils Equal And Reactive to Light

PEAT Patient Environment Action Team

PEC PCT Professional Executive Committee

PECS Picture Exchange Communication System

PEDC Potential Elderly Domiciliary Clients (part of SSA)

PEFR Peak Expiry Flow Rate

PEG Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy

PERL Pupils Equal and Reactive to Light

PERT Pontefract Emergency Response Team

PES Public Expenditure Survey

PESC Public Expenditure Survey Committee (obs)

PESR Potential Elderly Supported Residents (part of SSA)

PET Positron Emission Tomography

PETA People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

PETS paediatric emergency transfer service

PF Patients' Forum

PFC Patient Focused Care

PFI Private Finance Initiative. A form of leasing where public authorities pay lease charges for buildings and services over 25 or 30 years rather than borrowing money to pay for the building. Now replaced by PPP, which is entirely different and much better according to HMG.

PFMA Practice Fund Management Allowance - Allowance given to GP fundholders to manage their allocation. The allowance is primarily spent upon staff and equipment.

PFU Private Finance Unit

PGCME Postgraduate and Continuing Medical Education

PGD Postgraduate Dean

or Patient Group Directions

PGEA Postgraduate Education Allowance

PGMDE Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education

pH a measure of acidity or alkalinity

PHA Public Health Alliance Now part of UKPHA

PHAB Physically Disabled and Able-Bodied

PHANYC Public Health Association of New York City

PHC Primary Health Care

PHCT Primary Health Care Team

PHLS Public Health Laboratory Service

PHCSG Primary Health Care Specialist Group of the British Computer Society

PhD Philosophiae Doctor (Doctor of Philosophy)

PHeL Public Health Electronic Library

PHIS Public Health Institute of Scotland

PHL Public Health Laboratory

PHLS Public Health Laboratory Service

PHO Public Health Observatory

PHP Public Health Practitioner

PHPU Public Health Policy Unit

PHRRC Public Health Research and Resource Centre at the University of Salford

PHSS Personal Health Summary System

PHTLS Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support

PI Performance Indicator

or Parallel Imports

PIA Partnership In Action

or Personal Injury Accident

or Pain in the Ass

or Patient Impact Assessment

PICS Platform for Internet Content Selection

PICU Paediatric or Psychiatric ICU

PID Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

or Prolapsed Intervertebral Disc - Slipped disc

PIDA Public Interest Disclosure Act

PIG Policy Implementation Groups

or Promoting Independence Grant

or Professional Interest Group

PIL Patient Information Leaflet

PIN Personal identification number

or Prior Identification Notice

PITA Pain In The ass

PIU Performance and Innovation Unit

PLA Pre School Learning Alliance

PLAB Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board

PLP Personal Learning Plan

PLPI Product Licence Parallel Import

PLT Protected Learning Time

PMA Personal Medical Attendant. What insurance companies and the like call the doctor who writes a report for them.

PMD Prescribing Monitoring Document

PMETB Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board

PMF Performance Management Framework

PMI Private Medical Insurance

PMLD Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities

PMN Polymorphonuclear Neutrophil

PMR Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

or progressive muscle relaxation

PMS Primary Medical Services

PMSG pregnant mare's serum gonadotrophin

PN percussion note - part of the examination of the chest

PND Paroxysmal Nocturnal Dyspnea

or Post Natal Depression

PNL Prior Notification List (of patients for screening)

PNS Peripheral Nervous System

PO Per oral - by mouth

POC Point Of Care

PODS Patient's Own Drugs

POETS Piss Off Early Tomorrow is Saturday

POINT Publications On the INTernet (Department of Health)

POISE Procurement Of Information Systems Effectively The standard procedure followed for procurement of Information systems

POLIS Parliamentary Online Indexing Service

POLST Physicians Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment

POM Prescription Only Medicine

POPPS Partnerships for Older People Projects

POPUMET Protection of Persons Undergoing Medical Examination

POQ Piss off quick (Get out of a dangerous situation)

POSIX Portable Operating System Interface

POU Pulmonary Oncology Unit - Chest cancers

POVA Protection Of Vulnerable Adults from Abuse

PPA Prescription Pricing Authority - costs all prescriptions dispensed in England in order to pay chemists for the costs of the drugs etc. they dispense.

PPARC Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council

PPBS Planning, Programming & Budgeting System

PPD Prescription Pricing Division

PPDP Practice Professional Development Plans

PPDR Practice Profession Development and Revalidation

PPE Personal Protective Equipment

PPF Priorities and Planning Framework

PPG Principal Police Grant

or Planning Policy Guidance

PPI Proton Pump Inhibitor

or Patient and Public Involvement

PPIF Patient and Public Involvement Forum

PPM Planned Preventative Maintenance

PPO Preferred Provider Organisation

PPP Private Patients Plan

or Public Private Partnership

PPPP Public-Private Partnership Programme (aka 4Ps)

PPRS Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme

PPU Private patients unit

PQ Parliamentary Question

or Post Qualification

PQASSO Practical Quality Assurance System for Small Organisations

PR Per rectum

or Public relations (the connection is obvious really)

PRA Preventing and Responding to Aggression

PRATFO Patient Reassured and Told to Fuck Off

PRB Pay Review Body

PREP Post Registration Education and Practice

PREPP Post Registration Education and Preparation for Practice

PRHO Pre-Registration House Officer

PRIAE Policy Research Institute on Ageing & Ethnicity

PRIMIS Primary Care Information Services

PRINCE Projects in Controlled Environments - a standard project management methodology used in all NHS Information systems projects

PRN pro re nata - As required (of medication)

PRO Public Record Office

PRODIGY Prescribing RatiOnally with Decision-support In General-practice studY

PRP Performance Related Pay

PRT Personal Risk Training

PRU Police Resources Unit (part of Home Office)

PSA Prostate Specific Antigen

or Public Service Agreement

PSBR Public Sector Borrowing Requirement

PSC Public Sector Comparator

PSFD Public Sector Financing Deficit

PSG Prescribing Strategy Group

PSHE Personal Social And Health Education

PSI Policy Studies Institute

PSL Period of Study Leave

PSM Professions Supplementary to Medicine

PSNC Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee represents chemists in negotiations with the DOH

PSNCR Public Sector Net Cash Requirement

PSND Public Sector Net Deficit

PSRCS Police Standard Radio Communication System

PSS Personal Social Services

PSSRU Personal Social Services Research Unit

PSU Prescribing Support Unit

PSX Public Service Expenditure

PT Part Time

or Physiotherapy

Pt Patient

PTA Parent-Teachers Association

or Passenger Transport Authority

PTCA Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty - A balloon opening technique for opening partially blocked coronary arteries

PTE Passenger Transport Executive

PTS Patient transport service

PTSD Post Traumatic stress disorder

PU Prescribing Unit - developed to take account of elderly patients greater need for medication. Patients over 65 count as 3 PUs and those under 65 as one.

PV Per vagina

or Pemphigus Vulgaris

PVC Premature Ventricular Contraction

PVD Peripheral Vascular Disease

PVS Persistent Vegetative State

PW Pressurized Water fire extinguisher

PWC Price Waterhouse Coopers, a firm of accountants

PWLB Public Works Loans Board

PWSA Practitioner with Special Interest

Px Prescribing

PYE Part Year Effect

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