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SAS Taxonomy, Acronyms, & Abbreviations
Date: 07-Sep-09
The Scottish Ambulance Service
Taxonomy, Acronyms, & Abbreviations
Term
Description
Comment
3G
A2G
A4C
AAA
AARP
Mobile Communications Network
Air To Ground
Agenda For Change
Area Ambulance Assistance
Air Ambulance Re-procurement
Program
Air Ambulance Service
Accident & Emergency vehicle
crews
Ambulance Care Assistants
Association of Chief Police Officers
Scotland
Acute Coronary Syndrome
Anchor Dispatch Point
(in development)
AAS
A&E
ACAs
ACPOS
ACS
ADP
AED
AETAG
AEU
AfC
AHP
Airwave
Alpha Tag
AMPDS
AP
AQUA
AR
ARRP
ASA
ASIST
ASM
ASO
Asystole
Automated External Defibrillator
Ambulance Education & Training
Advisory Group
Accident & Emergency Unit
Agenda for Change
Allied Health Professionals
Public Safety Communications
System
User Alphanumeric Description
Advanced Medical Priority
Dispatch System (from Priority
Dispatch Systems Corp)
Ambulance Paramedic
Advanced Quality Assurance
Annual Report
Ambulance Radio Re-procurement
Project
Ambulance Service Association
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills
Training
Area Service Managers
Area Service Officers
No heartbeat
(an ORA based in an ASO)
2.5k paramedics/ technicians (60/ 40 split)
covering 500k/ 600k journeys per annum
PTS crews approx 800/ 900
General chest pain type
Used to identify a station that owns the unit as
C3 utilises post codes and does not identify
geographical areas. See also CDP, HDP, & TDP
(also written as AFC)
Supplied by Airwave
Acts as a convenient label to identify a user
System for holding the primary and diagnostic
codes which are added to identify types of
illness and response; codes used for compliance
A&E + PTS
PTS only based in key hospitals
Horizontal line with no heartbeat detected.
ROSC presenting rhythm
AT
AVLS
Ambulance Technician
Automated Vehicle Location
System
SAS use Terrafix applications
Term
Description
Comment
BASICS
British Association of Immediate
Care
British Ambulance Services
Medical Directors Group
Business Continuity Management
Better Health, Better Care
BASMed
BCM
BHBC
Company Confidential
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BRAIF
BTS
Basic Rate Interface
Blood Transfusion Service
C3
CAD
CAT A
Control & Command System
Computer Aided Despatch
Life threatening A&E 999 call
CAT B
Serious but not life threatening
A&E 999 call or healthcare
professional
CAT C
CBT
Neither life threatening nor serious
A&E 999 call or healthcare
professional
Chemical, Biological, Radiological,
& Nuclear
Cab Based Terminals
CCD
CCI
Command & Control Department
City Centre Initiative
CCI
CCK
CCS
CDM
CDP
Communications Control Interface
Common Cipher Key
Command & Control System
Chronic Disease Management
Current Dispatch Point
Cedar
On-line Financial Management
System
Clinical Effectiveness Group
Chief Executives Letter
CBRN
CEG
CELs
CGC
CH
CHCPs
CHS
CIG
Clinical Governance Committee
Community Hospital
Community Health & Care
Partnerships
Coronary Heart Disease
Community Health Index
Centre for Health Improvement
Research & Evaluation
Community Health Partnerships
Computerised Human Resources
Information System
Cluster Hot Standby
Capital Investment Group
Term
Description
CIP
Continuous Improvement
Programme
Communications & IT Services
Department
Charles & Eric System
Caller Line Identification
CHD
CHI
CHIRAL
CHPs
CHRIS
CITSD
CLERIC
CLI
Company Confidential
Date: 07-Sep-09
3 – Inverness, Edinburgh, & Cardonald
The C3 applications
Time taken from ‘Chief Complaint confirmed’,
also known as T4 time, to ‘Arrival at Incident’,
also known as V2 time – 8minute target set by
The Scottish Government for mainland Scotland
Time taken from ‘Chief Complaint confirmed’,
also known as T4 time, to ‘Arrival at Incident’,
also known as V2 time – 14/ 19/ 21 minute
target set by The Scottish Government
depending on population density
A 999 call triaged as low priority and either
referred to NHS24 or attended but not under
emergency conditions
Terms used in emergency planning in respect of
war and other major incidents
Mobile data terminals installed in each Accident
and Emergency Vehicle
Mobile tents set up in city centres to support
alcohol abuse initiatives
Ambulance currently positioned which may or
may not be the anchor/ home station or tactical
deployment point. The CDP may change
hundreds of times per day and is updated by the
C3 dispatcher. See also ADP, HDP, & TDP
Letter from the Scottish Government that must
be acting upon
Used by SAS Personnel to track staff career
development, absence, etc)
Comment
3 - PTS resource scheduling system
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CLIP
CLIR
CNORIS
COPD
CPD
CPI
CPR
CRA
CRDO
CSA
CSBS
CVA
DATIX
DCK
DCR
DDI
DGNA
DMO
DMT
DNA
DNAR
DNR
DNR
DO
DoH
DPA
DPNSS
DTM/ DTO
E&T
ECCI
ECCT
ECDL
ECG
ECN
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Caller Line Identification
Presentation
Caller Line Identification
Restriction
Clinical Negligence & Other Risks
Indemnity Scheme
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
Disease
Continuing Professional
Development
Clinical Performance Indicators
Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation
Control Room Assistant
Community Resuscitation
Development Officer
Common Services Agency
Clinical Standards Board for
Scotland
Cerebro Vascular Accident
Risk Management System
Derived Cipher Key
Dispatch Cross Reference
Direct Dialling In
Dynamic Group Number
Assignment
Direct Mode of Operation
Divisional Management Team
Did Not Attend
Do Not Attempt Resuscitation
Do Not Resuscitate
Discharge No Review
Divisional Officer
Department of Health
Data Protection Act 1998
Date: 07-Sep-09
(1 in each SAS Division)
(a stroke)
Used throughout SAS
A table in MIS C3 used to code incidents
Legal requirement to protect personal
information
Digital Private Network Signalling
System
Divisional Training Manager/
Officer
Education & Training
Electronic Clinical Communications
Implementation
Extended Community Care Teams
European Computer Driving
Licence
Electro Cardiogram
Emergency Communications
Network
Part of the RARARI Initiative
Term
Description
Comment
ECP
Emergency Care Practitioner
Model
Emergency Care Summary
European Financial Quality
Measures
Expert Group on Acute Maternity
Currently implemented in England & Wales only
ECS
EFQM
EGAMS
Company Confidential
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EGB
EHR
EIS
EISEC
eKSF
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Services
Efficient Government Bid
Electronic Health Record
Enterprise Information System
Enhanced Information System for
Emergency Calls
ERC
ERP
ESU
EYF
Electronic Knowledge & Skills
Framework
Emergency Life Support
Emergency Medical Dispatch
Centre
Emergency Medical Services
Emergency Medical Retrieval
System
Extended Primary Care Team
Electronic Patient Record
Electronic Patient Report Form
Equality & Diversity Impact
Assessment
Emergency Radio Channel
Enterprise Resource Planning
Emergency Support Unit
End of Year Flexibility
FBC
FL1
FL2
FLM
FOI/ FOISA
Full Business Case
Failure Level 1
Failure Level 2
Front Loaded Model
Freedom Of Information Act 2000
FPHC
FPOS
FR
FRD
Faculty of Pre-hospital Care
First Person On Scene
First Aider
Fast Response Dispatch
FRS
FRU
First Responder Service
First Responder Unit
FRV
Fast Response Vehicle
FYE
Full Year Effect
GAMA
Air ambulance service
GBN
GBNR
Ground Based Networks
Ground Based Network Resilience
Term
Description
GCK
GCS
GDP
GM
Group Cipher Key
Glasgow Coma Scale
Generic Development Plan
General Manager
GoS
Grade of Service
ELS
EMDC
EMS
EMRS
EPCT
EPR
ePRF
EQIA
Company Confidential
Date: 07-Sep-09
Information stream that presents address and
subscriber information with a phone number in a
999 call
SASs Performance and Development
Framework
3 – Inverness, Edinburgh, & Cardonald
Replaces paper form in A&E cabs
(no longer used – replaced by NWOCW)
Legal requirement to provide information along
with Public Sector Information Regulations Act
2005
Usually referring to a PRU or Doctor’s car in
rural settings with the possibility of not needing
to send an ambulance should the first vehicle be
able to cope
Volunteers operating in rural areas
Covers a general description of a unit from offduty PTS staff, RAF volunteers, to trained
volunteers in villages
Single crewed estate vehicles or motorcycles
(now referred to as PRU)
2 helicopters (Inverness and Glasgow) + fixed
wing services covering 3.5k transports
Comment
International measure of consciousness (0 – 15)
5 – North, West Central, South East, South
West, and East Central
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GPASS
GPwiSI
GSSI
HAI
HAISCRIBE
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General Practitioner Administration
& Support System
General Practitioner with a Special
Interest
Group Short Subscriber Identity
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AKA PwiSI – Practitioner with Special Interest
HAS
Healthcare Associated Infection
Healthcare Associated Infection
System for Controlling Risk In the
Build Environment
Hyper Acute Stroke
HCI
HCW
HDL
HDP
Home Computing Initiative
Healthcare Worker
Health Department Letter
Home Dispatch Point
HEAT
HoS
Health Improvement, Efficiency &
Governance, Access to Services,
Treatment
Helicopter Emergency Medical
Service
Health Facilities Scotland
Heads of Departments
Existing VPN Connections to
Ambulance Stations
Head of Service
HoSs
Heads of Services
HPC
HPS
HR
Health Professionals Council
Health Protection Scotland
Human Resources
IC
ICC
ICCS
IHTs
Information Commissioner
Infection Control Committee
Integrated Communications &
Control Systems
Information Commissioners Office
Infection Control Team
Information & Communications
Technology
Infrastructure Design Group
Institute of Health & Care
Development
Inter Hospital Transfers
Term
Description
Comment
IM&T
Information Management &
Technology
Internet Protocol Data
Involving People Group
Intellectual Property Rights
Internet Routing In Space
The incident-to-resource calculation module that
HEMS
HFS
HoDs
Home Office
ICO
ICT
ICT
IDG
IHCD
IP Data
IPG
IPR
IRIS
Company Confidential
Symptom onset within 4 hours + FAST (face,
arms, & speech test)
Ambulance on loan to another station or the
‘home station’ for the unit for the shift. This only
changes once a shift if at all. See also ADP,
CDP, and TDP
National performance targets set by the Scottish
Government. SAS has 1-off H, 5-off E, 5-off A,
and 2-off T targets to meet/ exceed
Geographic heads + ops head in West and one
for Edinburgh City responsible for PTS or A&E
Geographic heads + ops head in West and one
for Edinburgh City responsible for PTS and A&E
in a Health Board area
Used to be called the Data Protection Registrar
Used to be called the Data Protection Agency
Headed by Ian Shanley
Body which accredits ambulance training
including the College
Usually 1hr response from time agreed between
doctor/ nurse and call taker
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ISD
Information Services Division
ISDN
ISSI
ITSI
Integrated Services Digital Network
Individual Short Subscriber Identity
Individual TETRA Subscriber
Identity
Information Technology Security
Officer
ITSO
JFSG
JRCALC
Joint Futures Steering Group
Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance
Service Liaison Committee
KA34
Reporting Format
KIM
KPI
KRA
KSF
Knowledge Information
Management
Key Performance Indicator
Key Results Area
Knowledge & Skills Framework
LACA
LAP
LAT
LDP
LHCC
Leading Ambulance Care Assistant
Leading Ambulance Paramedic
Leading Ambulance Technician
Local Delivery Plan
Local Health Care Co-operative
MACU
MCN
MI
MOC
MRCP
Mobile Ambulance Control Unit
Managed Clinical Network
Myocardial Infarction
Method of Call
Mobile Radio Communications
Project
Multiple Subscriber Number
Management Team
Month To Date
MSN
MT
MTD
N3
NAO
NCSS
Date: 07-Sep-09
provides the ETA and distance calculations
Pool of expert resources providing health
information
To report stats formally and consistently to
Government
Part of the ‘Agenda For Change’ programme
Heart attack
Field in MIS C3 System
See also WTD and YTD
Deployed Throughout NHS
Government auditors
NHQ
High Capacity Data Circuit
National Audit Office
National Cleaning Services
Specification
National Distribution Centre
NHS Education for Scotland
Non Emergency Ambulance
Service
Now PTS ASM
National Fraud Initiative
National Framework for Service
Change
National Head Quarters
Term
Description
Comment
NHSMail
NHSNet
NHS Managed Mail Service
NHS Private Communications
Network
National Institute for Clinical
Excellence
Noise Induced Deafness
NDC
NES
NES
NES ASM
NFI
NFSC
NICE
NIDS
Company Confidential
Centralised procurement centres
Now called PTS (Patient Transfer Service)
PTS Area Service Manager
England & Wales only
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NIHR
NOSG
NPfIT
NPTB
NRAC
NRES
NRRD
NSS
NSR
NCKPIG
NVCS
NWOCW
OBC
OHS
OJEU
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Syndrome
National Institute for Health
Research
National Operations Support
Group
National Programme for IT
National Paramedic Training Board
National Resource Allocation
Committee
National Research Ethics
Committee
National Risk & Resilience
Department
National Shared Services
Normal Sinus Rhythm
National Unscheduled Care Key
Performance Indicator Group
Non Vehicle Crew Staff
New Ways Of Clinical Working
Date: 07-Sep-09
Part of the RARARI Initiative
Normal heartbeat. ROSC presenting rhythm
ORA
ORCON
Outline Business Case
Occupational Health Service
Official Journal of the European
Union
Software for category patients
Operational Management Team
Out Of Hours
Operational Performance
Improvement Project
Operations Room Assistant
Time Sliced C3 db
ORR
ORT
Operations Room Review
Optimal Reperfusion Therapy
OSCAR
Ordnance Survey Centre
Alignment of Roads
OSL
OTAR
Operating Service Level
Over The Air Re-keying
P1
P2
P3
PA
PAF
PAG
PTS clinically in need patient
PTS invasive procedures
PTS non clinical – physio etc
Personal Assistant
Performance Assessment
Framework
Professional Advisory Group
PAMs
Professions Allied to Medicine
Group of doctors from Royal Colleges who give
advice to the Service
Examples are pharmacists & phlebotomists
Term
Description
Comment
PATS
PBD
PBS
PCEC
PCI
Patient Air Transport Service
Priority Based Dispatch
Product Breakdown Structure
Primary Care Emergency Centres
Percutaneous Cardiac Intervention
Angioplasty
OMEGA
OMT
OOH
OPIP
Company Confidential
Transparency & openness during the contract
order process
Call Taker/ Dispatcher within the EMDC
Holds persistent and timely C3 information from
each of the 3 transactional C3s
Umbrella name for treatments such as PCI and
Thrombolysis
Electronic map of the road network based on the
white lines in the middle of the road which IRIS
uses to make it’s calculations in conjunction with
AVLS
30% of 1.5m transports per annum
10% of 1.5m transports
60% of 1.5m transports
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PCT
PCR
PDA
PDD
PEA
Primary Care Trusts
Patient Clinical Record
Pre-Determined Attendance
Project Definition Document
Pulseless Electrical Activity
PECOS
PEG
PMs
POMs
PPD
PPA
PPE
PPT
PPU
Electronic Goods Ordering System
Percutaneous Endoscopic
Gastronomy
Peripheral Equipment Interface
Practice Education Network
Psychiatric Emergency Plan
Paramedic Emergency Service
Political, Economic, Social,
Technological analysis
Planned Engineering Work
Partnership Forum
Private Finance Initiative
Patient Focus Public Involvement
Pre-Hospital Ambulance Service
Thrombolysis
Performance Indicators
Privacy Impact Assessment
Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
Project Initiation Document
Partnership Information Network
Police Information Technology
Organisation
Performance Managers
Prescription Only Medicines
Protected Personal Data
Potentially Preventable Admissions
Personal Protective Equipment
Post Proficiency Training
Planning & Performance Unit
PQ
Parliamentary Question
PRF
PRI
PRU
PSTN
PTS
Ptarmigan
Patient Report Form
Primary Rate Interface
Paramedic Response Unit
Public Switched Telephone
Network
Public Safety Spectrum Policy
Group
Patient Transport Services
PTS resource modelling
PRU
PVC
Paramedic Response Unit
Peripheral Vascular Catheter
Stirling University developed resource modelling
too to simulate load
Car or motorcycle fast response unit
Tube drawing blood
Term
Description
Comment
QIS
QIU
QOF
Quality Improvement Scotland
Quality Improvement Unit
Quality & Outcomes Framework
RAM
RARARI
Research Accounting Manual
Remote & Rural Areas Resource
PEI
PEN
PEP
PES
PEST
PEW
PF
PFI
PFPI
PHAST
PIs
PIA
PICU
PID
PIN
PITO
PSSPG
Company Confidential
Heartbeat present but no pulse (aka EMD).
ROSC presenting rhythm
Nil by mouth patient feeding arrangement
Part of the RARARI Initiative
Part of the RARARI Initiative
Part of the Information Risk Policy on privacy
3 -based West Central, East Central, South East
Part of the Information Risk Policy on privacy
Includes MI, Continuous Improvement, National
Service Redesign, & IT Governance
Requirement to supply information on request by
a Minister
Replaces the use of FRU and RRU
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RCT
RDT
REPD
RFID
RfPB
RGH
RIDDOR
ROSC
RPG
RRHEAL
RRU
RTPs
SAAT
SABS
SAC
SAMS
SAMSON
SATMD
SCC
SCG
SCI
SCIM
SCIEH
SDS
SECC
SEHD
SEND
SEWS
SFIs
SGHD
SGPC
SGRC
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Initiative
Randomised Control Trial
Radio Dispatcher Terminal
Risk & Emergency Planning
Department
Radio Frequency Identification
Device
Research for Patient Benefit
Rural General Hospital
Reporting of Injuries, Diseases, &
Dangerous Occurrences
Regulations (1995)
Return Of Spontaneous Circulation
Regional Planning Group
Remote & Rural Healthcare
Educational Alliance
Rapid Response Unit
Regional Transport Partnerships
Self Assessment Audit Tool
Staphylococus Aureus
Bacteraemias
Scottish Ambulance College
Sickness Absence Management
System
Scottish Ambulance Service Online
Scottish Ambulance Service
Medical Directors Group
Strategic Co-ordinating Centre
Strategic Co-ordinating Group
Scottish Care Information
Scottish Capital Investment
Manual
Scottish Centre for Infection &
Environmental Health
Short Data Service
Scottish Emergencies Coordinating Committee
Scottish Executive Health
Department
Secondary Emergency Notification
of Dispatch
Scottish Early Warning System
Date: 07-Sep-09
Government funded programme
Statutory obligation to report deaths, injuries,
diseases, and dangerous occurrences in the
workplace
One of the targets
Now renamed to PRU
Staff governance
The SAS intranet
Data warehouse for SAS
Protocol used to process calls from other
emergency control rooms e.g. Police, Fire
A score determined from assessment of the
patient’s vital signs
Standing Financial Instructions
Scottish Government Health
Department
Scottish General Practice
Committee
Staff Governance & Remuneration
Committee
Term
Description
Comment
SIC
SIDM
Statements of Internal Control
Scottish Index of Multiple
Deprivation
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines
Network
Slow heartbeat
Used in relation to the PIA & PPO
SIGN
Sinus
Company Confidential
ROSC presenting rhythm
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Bradycardia
Sinus
Tachycardia
SITREP
SLA
SMT
SMT
SOs
SOAs
SOPs
SORT
SPARRA
SPF
SPFM
SPICE
SPM
SPRIG
SPSP
SS
SSM
SSP
SSPM
SSPS
SSTS
STAF
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Fast heartbeat
Date: 07-Sep-09
ROSC presenting rhythm
Situation Report
Service Level Agreement
Senior Management Team
Service Management Terminal
Standing Orders
Single Outcome Agreements
Standing Operating Procedures
Special Operations Response
Team
Scottish Patients at Risk of Readmission & Admission
Scottish Partnership Forum
Scottish Public Finance Manual
Scottish Programme for Improving
Clinical Effectiveness
Status Plan Manager
Scottish Pay Reference &
Implementation Group
Scottish Patient Safety Program
Social Services
Systems Status Management
Systems Security Policy
Systems Status Plan Management
Scottish Standard Payroll System
Scottish Standard Time System
Pauline’s senior team
3 – Aberdeen, Edinburgh, & Glasgow with oncall teams in Dundee, Inverness, Stirling,
Glasgow, & Dumfries
C3 system prompt to aid TDPs
ICT managed policy
NHS-wide timesheet system (not adopted by
SAS due to Workforce Planning System being in
place)
Symposium
Scottish Telemedicine Action
Forum
Scottish Trauma Action Forum
Range S-T Elevated Myocardial
Infarction
Scottish Welfare Information
Standard System
Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities, Threats
BT Emergency call telephony
TDP
Tactical Deployment Points
TED
TEG
Tenectaplase
Training, Education, &
Development
Telephony Enhanced Gateway
Clot busting drug
Used in thrombolytic cases
Term
Description
Comment
TETRA
TYPE 1
Terrestrial Trunked Radio
Priority Clinical Conditions
Response
Remedial/ Invasive Response
Routine/ rehabilitative Response
Trunked Mode Operation
21% of calls – cancer, CHD, renal, mental
illness, etc
10% of calls – diabetics, endoscopy, etc
69% of calls – day hospital, physiotherapy etc
STAF
STEMI
SWISS
SWOT
TYPE 2
TYPE 3
TMO
Company Confidential
Plot showing that a person is having a heart
attack
Database used by HR
Reports information by call dispatched
Ambulances positioned out of stations and into
high volume areas, organised on hourly
intervals, to achieve deployment <8mins. C3
uses Current Dispatch Point (CDP) which may
or may not happen to equal TDP
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UH
UHF
Urgent
UTV
Unsocial Hours
Ultra High Frequency
Urgent Type Call
Urgent Tier Vehicle
VCS
VF
Vehicle Crew Staff
Ventricular Fibrillation
VHF
VPN
Very High Frequency
Virtual Private Network
WHAG
WTD
WTD
Welfare & Health Advisory Group
Week To Date
Working Time Directive
YTD
Year To Date
Company Confidential
Date: 07-Sep-09
Payroll project
Heart not operating correctly giving an irregular
heartbeat (defibrillate to stop with the restart
hopefully returning back to normal) ROSC
presenting rhythm
Summary of information for current week
Summary of information for current calendar or
fiscal year
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