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

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

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R&D Research and Development

R&S Recruitment and Selection

RA Research Associate

or Revenue Account

or Regional Assembly

or Rheumatoid arthritis

RA(SG) Revenue Account (Specific Grants)

RADAR Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation

RADTZ Regional Assessment and Diagnostic Treatment Zone

RAE Research Assessment Exercise

RAGE Radiotherapy Action Group Exposure

RAM Risk Allocation Matrix

RAO Referral and Advice Officer - First point of contact for enquiries about Social Services. Advice and basic information is also provided.

RAP Recurrent Abdominal Pain

or Referrals, Assessments and Packages of Care in Adult Personal Social Services

RAPt Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust

RARM Remote and Rural Medicine

RASP Resource Allocation and Service Planning

RAWP Resource Allocation Working Party

RB Representative Body

RBC Red Blood Corpuscle

rbe relative biological effectiveness

RBMS Referral Booking and Management System

RCA Royal College of Anaesthetists

RCC Rural Community Council

RCCO Revenue Contributions to Capital Outlay

RCCS Revenue Consequences of Capital Schemes

or Reid Clinical Classification System

RCOG Royal College of Gynaecologists

RCGP Royal College of General Practitioners

RCH Residential Care Home

RCHT Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust

RCM Royal College of Midwives

RCN Royal College of Nursing - Union for nurses.

RCO Refugee Community Organisations

RCOG Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

RCOphth Royal College of Ophthalmologists

RCP Royal College of Physicians

RCPath Royal College of Pathologists

RCPCH Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

RCPE Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

RCPsych Royal College of Psychiatrists

RCR Royal College of Radiologists

RCS Royal College of Surgeons

RCSLT Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

RCT Randomised Control Trial

RCU Regional Co-ordination Unit

RDA Regional Development Agency

or Rural Development Area

RDBMS Relational Database Management System.

RDC Rural District Council (obsolete except in former UK colonies)

or Rural Development Commission

RDF Resource Description Framework

RDN Resource Discovery Network

RDPGPE Regional Director of Postgraduate General Practice Education

RDS Respiratory Distress Syndrome

RDSU Research and Development Support Unit

REA Regional Education Adviser

REACH Research and Education for Children in Asthma or

Retired Executives Action Clearing House

REAL Research, Education, Audit, Libraries

REC Racial Equality Council

REDG Regional Education Development Group

Reg Registrar

REH Royal Eye Hospital

or Royal Edinburgh Hospital

RES Regional Economic Strategy

RFA Requirements for Accreditation of GP Systems

RFA4 National Accreditation standard for computers

RFAG Rural Fire Authorities' Group

RFC Request for Comment

RFDS Royal Flying Doctor Service

RFID Radio Frequency Identification Technology

RG Registrar-General

RGB Red Green Blue

RGD Revenue Grants Distribution

RGD(RG) Revenue Grants Distribution (Review Group)

RGN Registered General Nurse

Rh Relative humidity

RHA Regional Health Authority (obsolete)

RHB Regional Hospital Board (obsolete)

RHV Registered Health Visitor

RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects

RICS Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors

RIDDOR Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations

RIF Right Iliac Fossa

rINN Recommended International Non-proprietary Name

RIPA Royal Institute of Public Administration

RIPHH Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene

RITA Record of In-Training Assessment

RIU Regulatory Impact Unit

RL Ringer's Lactate

RLAS Red Lights And Sirens

RLG NHS Regional Librarians Group

RLQ Right Lower Quadrant

RLS Restless Legs Syndrome (this is not a jest)

RMA Refuse[s] Medical Assistance

RMCH Royal Manchester Children's Hospital

RMN Registered Mental Nurse

RMO Resident Medical Officer

or Responsible Medical Officer

RNA ribonucleic acid

RNCC Registered Nursing Care Contribution

RNHRD Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases

RNIB Royal National Institute for the Blind

RNID Royal National Institute for Deaf People

RNLI Royal National Lifeboat Institution

RNMH Registered Nurse for the Mentally Handicapped

RNOH Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

RNTNE Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital

RO Regional Office

or Radio Officer

or Revenue Out-turn

ROC Return on Capital

or Retained Organs Commission (obs)

RoCE Return on Capital Employed

ROE Regional Office for Europe

ROM Range of Movement

ROS Return on Sale

ROSC Return of Spontaneous Circulation

ROSPA Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

ROT Rule Of Thumb

ROTA Race on the Agenda

RoW Rights of Way or

Rights of Women

RP Reporting Party

RPC Regional Planning Conference (often now part of Regional Assembly)

RPF renal plasma flow

or Rural Policing Fund

RPGD Regional Postgraduate Dean

RPHTF Regional Prison Health Task Force

RPI Retail Price Index

RPIx underlying Retail Price Index (ie, excluding domestic mortgage costs)

RPPG Regional Policy Planning Guidance

RPSGB Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

Rpt Repeat

RQ respiratory quotient

or Reportable Quantity

RR Relative Risk

RRMS Relaxing and Remitting Multiple Sclerosis

RS respiratory system

or Rescue Squad

RSA Royal Society for Arts

RSC Royal Society of Chemistry

RSCG Regional Specialised Commissioning Group

RSCN Registered Sick Children's Nurse

RSD Reflex Sympathetic Disorder

RSG Revenue Support Grant formerly Rate Support Grant

RSH Royal Society of Health

RSI Repetitive Strain Injury

or Rapid Sequence Induction

or Rough Sleepers Initiative

RSIN Rural Stress Information Network

RSL Registered Social Landlord - a Housing Association or similar

RSM Royal Society of Medicine

RSN Real Soon Now - when computer applications will be delivered.

RSP Rural Services Partnership

RSS Royal Statistical Society

RSU Regional Secure Unit - for people who are considered dangerously mentally ill

or Rough Sleepers Unit

RSV Respiratory Syncytial Virus

RSVP Retired and Senior Volunteers Programme

RSW Residential Social Work

RT Radiotherapy

or reaction time (in neurophysiology)

Rt Right

RTA Road Traffic Accident

RTF Regional Task Force

or Rich Text Format

RTIA Receipts Taken Into Account (part of capital control framework)

RTPI Royal Town Planning Institute

RUH Royal United Hospitals Bath

RUQ Right Upper quadrant (of the torso)

RVI Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle

RVSN Regional Voluntary Sector Network

Rx Prescription drugs

RxList Internet Drug Index

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