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Health and Social Services Glossary of Acronyms
(Starting with "T")
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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T&O Trauma and Orthopaedics
T&R Treat and Release
T1-12 Bones in the thoracic
spine (upper back)
TACFIG Town And Country Issues
Financial Issues Group
TALOBIA There's a lot of it
about
TAP Trainee Assistant Practitioner
TATT Tired All the Time
TBÂ TuberculosisÂ
TBA To Be Announced or Arranged
TBF Total Body Failure
TBG Thyroxine
binding globulin capacity
TC Town Council
or Total Communication
TCA trichloroacetic acid
or TriCyclic
Antidepressants
TCBL Temporary Capital Borrowing
Limit (part of capital control framework)
TCI To Come In
TCP Total Commissioning Project
TCP/IP Transport
Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TD Teachta Dála"
which in English means "Deputy to the Dáil"
TDHC The Doctors Healthcare
Company
TDS ter die sumendum - Three
Times Daily
TEACCH Treatment
and Education of Autistic and Related Communication
Handicapped Children
TEC Training
and Enterprise Council (now abolished)
TEETH tried everything else,
try homoeopathy
TEL Trust Executive Letter
TELCO The
East London Communities Organisation
TENS transcutaneous
electro-nerve stimulator An electronic pain relief
machine
TENYAS Tees, East and North
Yorkshire Ambulance Service
TERN Trans European Road Network
TFT Thin
Film Display
TGF Transforming Growth Factor
TIA Transient
Ischaemic Attack
or Traffic Impact Assessment
TICK Teamwork, Integrity, Courage,
Knowledge
TICS Trafford Integrated Care
Services
TID Three Times Daily
TIE theatre in education
TIS Technical Information Services
TKO To Keep Open
TLA Three letter acronym like
this one
TLC Tender loving care - what
you need when the doctors have finished with you.Â
TLD Top
Level Domain
TME Trust Management Executive
TMJ TemporoMandibular Joints Disorder
TM Tympanic
Membrane
TMB Too Many Birthdays
TME Total Managed Expenditure
TMO Tenant Management Organisation
TNA Training Needs Analysis
TNF Tumour
Necrosis Factor
TOIL Time Off In Lieu
TOP Termination of pregnancy
or Topically
TOPRA The
Organisation for Professionals in Regulatory Affairs
TOPS Termination of Pregnancy
Service
TOPSS Training Organisation
for Personal Social Services
TPAS Tenants
Participation Advisory Service
TPC Teenage Pregnancy Co-ordinator
TPD Training Programme Director
TPE Therapeutic
Plasma Exchange
TPPÂ Total Purchasing Project
or Transport Policies & Programmes
TPQ Threshold Planning Quanity
TPR Temperature, Pulse, Respirations
TPU Teenage Pregnancy Unit
TQM Total Quality Management
TR Technical Release (term
used by Audit Commission)
TRALI Transfusion related Acute
Lung Injury
TRBL Temporary Revenue Borrowing
Limit (part of capital control framework)
TRiP Turning
Research into Practice
TRIPS Trade
Related Intellectual Property Rights
TRO Time Ran Out
TSC Technical Sub-Committee
TSG Transport Supplementary
Grant
TSH Thyroid
Stimulating Hormone
TSO The
Stationery Office (formerly Her Majesty's Stationery
Office)
TSP Training Support Programme
TSS Total Standard Spending
TSST Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin
TSSU Theatre
Sterile Supplies Unit
TTA Teacher
Training Agency
TTFO Told to Fuck Off
TTO To take home - 5 days supply
of medication
TTP Thrombotic
Thrombocytopenic Purpura
TTPO Tone Temperature and Pulse
OK
or Told to Piss Off
TUBE Totally Unnecessary Breast
Examination
TUC Trades
Union Congress
TUPE Transfer
of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations
1981
TV Transfer Value
TVF Team, Vision, Future
TWES Training
and Work Experience Scheme
TWG Technical Working Group
TWOC Trial WithOut Catheter.
A patient who has been catheterised because he or
she (but usually he) cannot pass urine, has the catheter
taken out to see if he can remember how. If not, then
he usually has an appointment with the apple corer.
or Taking Without Consent (of cars)
Tx Treatment
Txp Transport
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