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Health and Social Services Glossary of Acronyms
(Starting with "U")
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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U&E Urea & Electrolytes
- blood test
UA Unitary
Authority - a Council which carries out all the
functions in its area
UASC Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking
Children
UASSG Unlinked
Anonymous Surveys Steering Group
UB Unemployment Benefit (now
JSA)
UBHT United
Bristol Healthcare Trust
UBR Uniform Business Rate (alternative
name for NNDR)
UCAS Universities
College Admission Service
UCC University
College Cork
UCL University
College London
UDC Urban District Council
(obsolete except in Ireland) now replaced by MBCs
or Urban Development Corporation
UEL Upper
Explosive Limit
UEMS EUROPEAN
UNION OF MEDICAL SPECIALISTS
UfI University
for Industry
UGM Unit General Manager
UHB University Hospitals Birmingham
UHF Ultra High Frequency
UKADCU UK
Anti-Drugs Co-ordination Unit (formerly Drugs
Co-ordination Unit)
UKAN United
Kingdom Advocacy Network
UKCC United Kingdom Central
Council (abolished 2002)
UKDIPG United Kingdom Drug
Information Pharmacists Group
UKHFAN United
Kingdom Health for All Network
UKOLN The
UK Office for Library and Information Networking
UKPHA United
Kingdom Public Health Alliance
UKTSSA United
Kingdom Transplant Support Service Authority
ULC Unit Labour Cost - Staff
cost required to provide a given unit of activity.
ULF Union
Learning Fund
ULTRA Unrelated
Live Transplant Regulatory Authority
UMIST University
of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
(obs)
UMLS Unified
Medical Language System
UNICEF United
Nations Children's Fund
UNISON Trades
Union for public sector workers, incorporating
COHSE, NALGO and NUPE
UPA Underpriviledged
Area - a measure of deprivation. 0 is the mean
for England
URC
Urban Regeneration Company
or United
Reform Church
URL Uniform
Resource Locator
URTI Upper
Respiratory Tract Infection
US Ultra
sound
UTD Unit Training Director
UTF
Urban Task Force
UTG Unified Training Grade
UTH University Teaching Hospital
UTI Urinary
Tract Infection
UV ultra violet
or Ultra Vires
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