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Appendix 1: List of Acronyms used in the Report and Annexes

1946 Act
National Health Service Act 1946
1973 Act
National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973
1977 Act
National Health Service Act 1977
1980 Act
National Health Service Act 1980
1990 Act
National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990
1995 Act
Medical (Professional Performances) Act 1995
AA
Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
AAGBI
Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
ACTA
Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
ADGM
Assistant District General Manager
AGMETS
Advisory Group for Medical Education, Training and Staffing
AHA
Area Health Authority
AIMS
Australian Incident Monitoring Study
AIP
Approval in Principle document
APAGBI
Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
ASD
Atrial Septal Defect
Avon HA
Avon Health Authority. The Avon HA came into existence formally on 1 April 1996 following the merger of the former District Health Authority and Family Health Services Authority. It inherited the planning and purchasing roles
AVSD
Atrio-Ventricular Septal Defect
B&DHA
Bristol & District Health Authority. This formally came into existence on 1 October 1991 as the purchasing authority for the Bristol area, and remained until 1 April 1996, when it merged with the Avon Family Health Services Authority to become the Avon Health Authority
B&DPC
Bristol and District Paediatric Committee
B&WDHA
Bristol & Weston District Health Authority. This was formed on 1 April 1982, following the abolition of the Avon Health Authority (Teaching), from the old Bristol Health District (Teaching) and the Weston Health District, which had merged in 1978. B&WDHA continued in existence until the purchaser-provider split took place on 1 October 1991
BAPS
British Association of Paediatric Surgeons
BCAU
Bristol Clinical Audit Unit
BCH
Bristol Children's Hospital. See BRHSC below
BCS
British Cardiac Society
BDH
Bristol Dental Hospital
BEH
Bristol Eye Hospital
BHCAG
Bristol Heart Children Action Group. This group was initially a group of parents who met to provide comfort and support to each other. They called for a Public Inquiry as early as June 1996. However, the BHCAG was not formally convened until March 1998
BMA
British Medical Association
BMH
Bristol Maternity Hospital
BMJ
British Medical Journal
BPA
British Paediatric Association
BPCA
British Paediatric Cardiac Association
BRHC
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children (opened April 2001)
BRHSC
Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children (formerly known as the Bristol Royal Children's Hospital (the BRCH); also referred to in evidence as the Bristol Children's Hospital
BRI
Bristol Royal Infirmary, part of the UBH/T, located in central Bristol
BSSG
Bristol Surgeons Support Group. A group largely comprising former patients of Mr Wisheart and Mr Dhasmana, but including parents of children on whom the surgeons had performed paediatric cardiac surgery, and set up following the General Medical Council Hearings in relation to charges against Mr Wisheart, Mr Dhasmana and Dr John Roylance
CABG
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft
CAC
Clinical Audit Committee
CASPE
Clinical Accountability, Service Planning and Evaluation
CAVSD
Complete Atrio-Ventricular Septal Defect
CCNR
Clinical Case Note Review
CCR
Coded Clinical Records
CEP
Continuing Education Points
CEPOD
Confidential Enquiry into Peri-Operative Deaths
CHC
Community Health Council
CHD
Congenital Heart Disease
CHI
Commission for Health Improvement
CHSC
Central Health Services Council
CICU
Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
CME
Continuing Medical Education
CMO
Chief Medical Officer
CNO
Chief Nursing Officer
COG
Clinical Outcomes Group
CPD
Continuing Professional Development
CQI
Continuous Quality Improvement
CSB
Cardiac Surgery Board
CSJWP
Cardiac Surgery Joint Working Party
CSMB
Cardiac Services Management Board
CSR
Cardiac Surgical Register
CSWP
Cardiac Surgery Working Party
CV
Coefficient of Variation: the standard deviation divided by the mean
DAC
District Audit Committee
DGH
District General Hospital
DGM
District General Manager
DHA
District Health Authority
DHSS
Department of Health and Social Security. Established on 1 November 1968 when the two separate Ministries of Health and Social Security were amalgamated
DMO
District Medical Officer
DMT
District Management Team
DNAC
District Nurse Advisory Committee
DoH
Department of Health. Established in July 1988 following the decision to split the DHSS into two Ministries [6]
DSS
Department of Social Security. See also DHSS
DySSSy
Dynamic Standard Setting System
ECG
Electrocardiogram
EFL
External Financing Limit
EL
Executive Letter
ENB
English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting
ENT
Ear, Nose and Throat
ERA
Employment Rights Act 1996
FHSA
Family Health Service Authority
FPC
Family Practitioner Committee
FPCC
Finance, Property and Computing Committee of B&WDHA (q.v.)
GMC
General Medical Council
GOS
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust
GP
General Practitioner
GPFH
General Practioner Fundholder
HA
Health Authority
HC
Health Circular
HCA
Health Care Assistant
HCHS
Hospital and Community Health Services
HDU
High Dependency Unit
HES
Hospital Episode Statistics
HMC
Hospital Medical Committee
HRC
Hospital Recognition Committee
HRG
Health Resource Group
HSE
Health and Safety Executive
ICD
International Classification of Diseases
ICS
Intensive Care Society
ICU
Intensive Care Unit. Also referred to in evidence as ITU. See also CICU and PICU
ITU
See ICU
IV
Intravenous
JCC
Joint Consultants' Committees
JCHMT
Joint Committee on Higher Medical Training
JCHST
Joint Committee on Higher Surgical Training
JCSAC
Joint Consultants Specialist Advisory Committee
JPAG
Joint Planning Advisory Group
LHAC
Local Hospital Audit Committee
LVOTO
Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction
MAAG
Medical Audit Advisory Group
MAC
Medical Audit Committee
MACSOM
Medical Audit and Clinical Standards Outcome Measurement
MDA
Medical Devices Agency
MDI
Medical Database Index
MDU
Medical Defence Union
MDUS
Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland
MEC
Medical Ethics Committee of the BMA (q.v.)
MESB
Medical Education Standards Board
MIWG
Medication Information Working Group
MPD
Medical Policy Division of the DoH
MPS
Medical Protection Society
MRC
Medical Research Council
NBNI
National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Northern Ireland
NBS
National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Scotland
NCEPOD
National Confidential Enquiry into Peri-operative Deaths
NEQAS
National External Quality Assessment Scheme
NHS
National Health Service
NHS Trust
We use this generic term to refer to any trust which provides acute hospital care
NHSE
NHS Executive (in existence from April 1 1995)
NHSLA
National Health Service Litigation Authority
NHSME
NHS Management Executive (in existence from May 1989 to March 31 1995)
NICE
National Institute for Clinical Excellence
NICS
Neonatal and Infant Cardiac Surgery
NMC
Nursing and Midwifery Council
NNEB
National Nursery Examination Board
NSCAG
National Specialised Commissioning Advisory Group
NSF
National Service Framework
NVQ
National Vocational Qualification
OBD
Occupied Bed Day
OPCS
Office of Population Censuses and Surveys
OPCS4
OPCS Classification of Operations and Procedures, Fourth Revision
OPD
Outpatient Department
PAC
Performance Assessment Committee
PAD
Patient Administration Database
PAMs
Professions Allied to Medicine
PAS
Patient Administration System
PATS
Patient Analysis and Tracing System
PCC
Professional Conduct Committee
PCG/T
Primary Care Group/Trust
PCS
Paediatric Cardiac Surgery / Paediatric Cardiac (Surgical) Service
PICS
Paediatric Intensive Care Society
PICU
Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
PIDA
Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998
PL
Perfusionist's Log
PMSW(T)
Principal Medical Social Worker (Teaching)
PPC
Preliminary Proceedings Committee of the GMC
PPRC
Policy Planning and Resources Committee
PREP
Post-registration Education and Practice
PS
Pulmonary Stenosis
PTA
Persistent Truncus Arteriosus
RAWP
Resource Allocation Working Party
RCA
Royal College of Anaesthetists
RCCHP
Royal College of Child Health Practitioners
RCGP
Royal College of General Practitioners
RCM
Royal College of Midwives
RCN
Royal College of Nursing
RCP
Royal College of Physicians of London
RCPCH
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
RCSE
Royal College of Surgeons of England
RDPH
Regional Director of Public Health
RGM
Regional General Manager
RGN
Registered General Nurse
RHA
Regional Health Authority
RHMAC
Regional Hospital Medical Advisory Committee
RIDDOR
Reporting on Inquiries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations
RIS
Regional Information System
RMC
Regional Medical Committee
RMO
Regional Medical Officer
RPCMAC
Regional Primary Care Medical Advisory Committee
RR
Relative Risk
RSCN
Registered Sick Children's Nurse
RTC
Radiotherapy Centre
S&WRHA
South and West Regional Health Authority
SAC
Specialist Advisory Committee
SCS
Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
SEN
State Enrolled Nurse
SERNIP
Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures
SFI
Standing Financial Instruction
SGHA
South Glamorgan Health Authority
SHA
Special Health Authority
SHO
Senior House Officer
SHSC
Scottish Health Services Council
SI
Statutory Instrument
SIFT
Service Increment for Teaching
SIFTR
Service Increment for Teaching and Research
SL
Surgeon's Log
SMAC
Standing Medical Advisory Committee
SMR
Standardised Mortality Ratio
SNMAC
Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee
SR
Senior Registrar
SRC
Supra Regional Centre
SRS
Supra Regional Service
SRSAG
Supra Regional Services Advisory Group
STCVS-UK
Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
SWAANS
South West Audit Assistants Network Services
SWCHR
South West Congenital Heart Register
SWRHA
South Western Regional Health Authority. This became operational from 1 April 1974 and continued until it merged with part of the Wessex Regional Health Authority in 1994, to become the South and West Regional Health Authority. It continued in this form until 1 April 1996
TAPVD
Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage
TGA
Transposition of Great Arteries
TNAC
Trust Nurse Advisory Committee
TQM
Total Quality Management
UBH
United Bristol Hospitals. A group of hospitals servicing Bristol prior to the formation of the UBHT (q.v.) on 1 April 1991 [7]
UBH/T
The term used by the Inquiry to refer to the hospitals comprising the UBH (q.v.) and the UBHT, both before and after Trust status
UBHT
United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust. A teaching trust formed on 1 April 1991, comprising nine hospitals and community centres, providing a comprehensive range of healthcare services both in hospitals and the community. The majority of UBHT hospitals are in central Bristol, whilst community care is provided by staff based in health centres and clinics in central and south Bristol, and parts of Bath and North East Somerset and North Somerset
UHW
University Hospital Wales, Cardiff
UKCC
United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting
UKCSR
UK Cardiac Surgical Register
VSD
Ventricular Septal Defect
WL
Wisheart's Log
WNB
Welsh National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting
WTE
Whole-time Equivalent

[6] Edwards B. `The National Health Service 1946-1994: A Manager's Tale', The Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust 1995, p. 145

[7] The Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Bristol Eye Hospital, Bristol Maternity Hospital, Bristol General Hospital, and University of Bristol Dental Hospital. Between 1960 and 1974 they were joined by Bristol Homeopathic Hospital and Farleigh Hospital

 

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