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Rev: 0.14 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 Page: 1 of 11 pages File: Taxonomyv13 Rev: 0.14 SAS Taxonomy, Acronyms, & Abbreviations 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 Page: 2 of 11 pages File: Taxonomyv13 Rev: 0.14 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 SAS Taxonomy, Acronyms, & Abbreviations 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 Page: 3 of 11 pages File: Taxonomyv13 Rev: 0.14 EGB EHR EIS EISEC eKSF SAS Taxonomy, Acronyms, & Abbreviations 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 Page: 4 of 11 pages File: Taxonomyv13 Rev: 0.14 GPASS GPwiSI GSSI HAI HAISCRIBE SAS Taxonomy, Acronyms, & Abbreviations General Practitioner Administration & Support System General Practitioner with a Special Interest Group Short Subscriber Identity Date: 07-Sep-09 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 Page: 5 of 11 pages File: Taxonomyv13 Rev: 0.14 SAS Taxonomy, Acronyms, & Abbreviations 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 Page: 6 of 11 pages File: Taxonomyv13 Rev: 0.14 NIHR NOSG NPfIT NPTB NRAC NRES NRRD NSS NSR NCKPIG NVCS NWOCW OBC OHS OJEU SAS Taxonomy, Acronyms, & Abbreviations 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 Page: 7 of 11 pages File: Taxonomyv13 Rev: 0.14 SAS Taxonomy, Acronyms, & Abbreviations Date: 07-Sep-09 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 Page: 8 of 11 pages File: Taxonomyv13 Rev: 0.14 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 SAS Taxonomy, Acronyms, & Abbreviations 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 Page: 9 of 11 pages File: Taxonomyv13 Rev: 0.14 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 SAS Taxonomy, Acronyms, & Abbreviations 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 Page: 10 of 11 pages File: Taxonomyv13 Rev: 0.14 SAS Taxonomy, Acronyms, & Abbreviations 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 Page: 11 of 11 pages File: Taxonomyv13