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

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

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

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S1-5 Bones in the base of the spine

S & P Scrape and Polish

S/S Signs and Symptoms

SABA Supplied Air Breathing Apparatus

SAC Specialist Advisory Committee (of the Royal Colleges). Oversee higher medical training.

SACN Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition

SAD Seasonal Affective Disorder

SAED SemiAutomatic External Defibrillator

SaFF See SFF

SAGNIS Strategic Advisory Group for Nursing Information Systems

SAHC Scottish Association of Health Councils

SALT Speech and Language Therapist

SAMH Scottish Association of Mental Health

SaO2 Oxygen SAturation

SAP Single Assessment Process

SAPHE Self Assessment in Professional and Higher Education 1996-9

SAR Search And Rescue

or Subjective Analysis Return

SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

SAT Service Action Team

SAZ Sport Action Zone

SBS Small Business Service

SBU Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care

SC Subcutaneous

SCA Supplementary Credit Approval (part of capital control framework)

SCAIS Sheffield Community Access Interpreting Service

SCBA Self Contained Breathing Apparatus

SCBU Special Care Baby Unit

SCCD Standing Conference on Community Development

SCD Sickle Cell Disease

SCEC Scottish Central Emergency Committee

SCF Safer Communities Fund

or Save the Children Fund

or Scottish Council Foundation

SCG Specialised Commissioning Group

ScHARR School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield

SCHIN Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics at Newcastle

SCID Severe Combined Immune Deficiency

SCIE Social Care Institute for Excellence

SCM Specialist in Community Medicine

SCMH Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health

SCMO Senior Clinical Medical Officer

SCODA Standing Conference on Drug Abuse

SCOPE Society for people with Cerebral Palsy

SCOPME The Standing Committee on Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education

SCP Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrists

or Single Capital Pot

or Spinal Column Point (position on pay-scale)

or Shared Care Protocol or

Short Course Programme

SCPMDE Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education

SCR Social Care Region

SCUBA Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

SCS Senior Civil Service

SCT Society of County Treasurers

SCVO Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations

SCVS CVS Scotland

SDA Severe Disability Allowance (obsolete)

or Service Delivery Agreement or

Sex Discrimination Act

SDCT Society of District Council Treasurers

SDI Shire Districts Initiative

SDO Service Delivery Organisation

SDP Sub-Divisional Partnership

or Severe Disability Premium

SEA Significant Event Audit

Seac Spongiform Encephalopathy Committee. Advises HMG on BSE

SEACAG South East Ambulance Clinical Audit Group

SEC Specialist Education Committee

SEG Socio-Economic Group

SEMI Severe and Enduring Mental Illness

SEN Special Educational Needs

or State Enrolled Nurse

SEO Society of Education Officers

SERNIP Safety and Efficiency Register of New Interventional Procedures run by the Medical Royal Colleges

SERPS State Earnings Related Pension Scheme

SEU Social Exclusion Unit

or Sentence Enforcement Unit

SFA Statement of Fees and Allowances - The GP's Red Book

SFDF Scottish Food and Drink Federation

SFF Service & Finance Framework - An annual document setting out in detail the commissioning intentions for the following year (1st April - 31st March).

SFI Standing Financial Instructions - Financial procedures and framework for the Health Authority

or Social Fund Inspector

SFM Simple Face Mask

SG1 (2..3) Sector Group 1 etc. (part of CLP covering best value)

SGHT Standing Group on Health Technology

SGML Standard Generalised Markup Language

SGPC Scottish General Practitioners Committee - part of the BMA

SGR Scientists for Global Responsibility

SGUMDER Standing Group on Undergraduate Medical and Dental Education and Research

SHA Socialist Health Association

or Special Health Authority

or Strategic Health Authority

SHAPE Strategic Health Asset Planning and Evaluation

SHARE Scottish Health Authorities Revenue Equalisation

SHAS Scottish Health Advisory Service

SHEPS Society of Health Education and Health Promotion Specialists

SHIFT Substitution of Hospital and other Institutional-focused Technology

SHMO Senior Hospital Medical Officer

SHO Senior House Officer

SHOT Serious Hazards of Transfusion

SHOW Scottish Health on the Web

SHRINE Strategic Human Resources Information Network

SHTAC Scottish Centre for Technology Assessment in Health Care

SI Statutory Instrument

SIA Spinal Injuries Association

SIDS Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

SIFT Service Increment for Teaching - cash to hospitals for training medical students

SIFTR Service Increment for Teaching and Research

SIG Special Interest Group

SIGN Scottish Inter-Collegiate Guidelines Network

SIGOMA Special Interest Group of Metropolitan Authorities outside London

SIMS Standardized Incident Management System

SING Sexuality Issues Network Group

SIS Supplies Information Service

or Statistical Information Service (run by IPF)

SITF Social Investment Task Force

Sitrep Situation Reports

SIV Simian Immunodeficiency Virus

SL Sub Lingual (under your tongue)

SLA Service Level Agreement

SLAM South London and Maudsley NHS Trust

SLE systemic lupus erythematosus

Slr Straight Leg Raising

SLS Selected List Scheme for drugs which are restricted to particular conditions

SLT Society of London authority Treasurers

SLUD Salivation, Lacrimation, Urination, Defecation

SMA Spinal Muscular Atrophy

SMAC Standing Medical Advisory Committee

SMART Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timed (of objectives)

SME Small and Medium Sized Enterprise

SMI Severe Mental Impairment. People with SMI do not have to pay Council Tax

SMO Senior Medical Officer

SMP Statutory Maternity Pay

SMR Standardised Mortality Ratio

or Standardised Morbidity Ratio

SMT Society of Municipal Treasurers

SMTP Simple Message Transfer Protocol

SMUG South Manchester User Group - a group of users of mental health services

SMUHT South Manchester University Hospital Trust

SN Staff Nurse

SNAFU Situation Normal, All Fucked Up

SNMAC Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee

SNOMED Systematized Nomenclature of Human Medicine

SNP Single Nucleotide Polymorphism - a marker of genetic difference

or Scottish Nationalist Party

SNTN Scottish National Training Number

SO Standing Orders

SOAP Shipley Opthalmic Assessment Service

sob Short of Breath

SOBOE Short Of Breath On Exertion

SOC Strategic Outline Case - spells out the business and IT environment and local development plans within which a planned system will operate. Followed by the FBC.

SOCITM SOCiety of Information Technology Managers

SOCO Scene Of Crime Officer (police)

SODoH Scottish Department of Health (obs)

SOHHD Scottish Home Office and Health Department - obsolete

SOLACE Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers

SON Statement of Need

SOP Standard Operational Procedure

SORP Statement Of Recommended [accounting] Practice

sos si opus sit - if necessary

SoS Secretary of State

SOSIG Social Science Information Gateway

SOVA Society of Voluntary Associates (associated with Probation)

SP Strategic Plan

SPA Scottish Prescribing Analysis

SPAIN Social Policy Ageing Information Network

SPC Summary of Product Characteristics

SPIN Sandwell Public Information Network

SpR Specialist registrar

SPS Standard Payroll System

SPT Skin Prick Test

SPRITE Specialist Psychiatric Resource and Intervention Team. Work with dementia in North Manchester

SPV Special Purpose Vehicle

SQ Subcutaneous

SQL Structure Query Language

SQP Suitably Qualified Person

SR Senior registrar

or Society of Radiographers

or Spending Review

Sr Sister

SRB Single Regeneration Budget - replaced Urban Aid

SRD State Registered Dietician

SRE Sex and relationship Education

SRSAG Supra Regional Services Advisory group

SS Sure Start

SSA Standard Spending Assessment

SSAP Statement of Standard Accounting Practice (now being replaced by FRS)

SSARG Standard Spending Assessment Reduction Grant

SSAT Social Security Appeal Tribunal

SSC Shared Services Centre or

Sector Skills Council

SSCF Safer and Stronger Communities Fund

SSD Social Services Department

SSDP Strategic Service Development Plan

SSE School for Social Entrepreneurs

SSFA School Standards & Framework Act 1998

SSHA Society of Sexual Health Advisers

SSI Social Services Inspectorate Transferred to Commission for Social Care Inspection April 2004

or Standard Spending Indicator (part of SSA)

SSIP Strategic Service Implementation Plan,

SSIS Social Services Information System - A computerised system in all Manchester Social Services offices providing data on referral and assessment

SSM Special Study Module

or System Status Management

SSP Statutory Sick Pay

or Scottish Socialist Party or

Sub-regional Strategic Partnership

SSR Service Strategy & Regulation

SSRADU Social Services Research & Development Unit

SSRG Social Services Research Group

SSRI Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitor - Prozac and the like

SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest

ST Sinus Tachycardia

STA Specialist Training Authority

STAG School Travel Advisory Group

STAR Short Term Assessment and Rehabilitation Team Social Services teams which provide up to four weeks of care for people leaving hospital and residential homes and returning home

STAR-PU Specific Therapeutic Group Age-Sex Related Prescribing Unit. A very sophisticated PU, based on cost within a therapeutic group.

StBOP Shifting the Balance of Power

STC Speciality Training Committee

STD Sexually transmitted disease

STE Standard Tax Element

STEIS Strategic Executive Information System

STEP Standards Enforcement in Procurement A set of technical standards which IT systems should adhere to if they are to 'talk' to each other

STG Special Transitional Grant - Department of Health money given to Social Services to change to Community Care (now defunct)

STHCT South Tyneside Health Care Trust

StHA Strategic Health Authority

STI Sexually Transmitted Infection

StN Student nurse