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Jargon Buster –what do all those acronyms mean?
AAU - Acute Assessment Unit
AoD - Alcohol and/or Drug
A/C workstream - Acute and Crisis workstream
ADS - Acute Day Service
APOC -Acute Packages of Care
CAB - Citizens Advice Bureau
CADS - Community Alcohol and Drug Service
CAFS - Child, Adolescent and Family Service (now CAMHS)
CAMHS - Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Capex - Capital Expenditure Committee (Capital & Coast term/process)
CARC - Community Acute Resource Co-ordinator
CATT - Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team
CBERHs - Community Based Enhanced Recovery Houses
CCC - Care Co-ordination Centre
CE or CEO - Chief Executive or Chief Executive Officer
CMHT - Community Mental Health Team
COO - Chief Operating Officer
CPHAC - Community and Public Health Advisory Committee
CQI - Continuous Quality Improvement
DAP - District Annual Plan
DHB - District Health Board
CR -Crisis Respite
DSAC - Disability Support Advisory Committee
EHR / PC - Electronic Health Record Primary Care Project
EIS - Early Intervention Service
DSAC - Disability Support Advisory Committee
FRAC - Finance Risk and Audit Committee
FTE - Full Time Equivalent- full time hours usually 40 hours
GP - General Practitioner
HAC - Hospital Advisory Committee
HBT - Home Based Treatment
HISO - Health Information Standards Organisation
ICP - Inner City Project
HHS - Hospital Health Service
KPI - Key Performance Indicator
MDT - Multi-Disciplinary team
MHINC - Mental Health Information National Collection
MHL - Mental Health Line- phone service
MHS - Mental Health Service
MH-SMART - Mental Health Standard Measures of Assessment and Recovery Initiative.
MoH - Ministry of Health
NCC - National Capital Committee
NICE - National Institute for Clinical Excellence
NGO - Non Governmental Organisation
OTS - Opoid Treatment Service (Methadone Programme)
PDSA - The PDSA cycle is shorthand for testing a change by developing a plan to test the change (Plan), carrying out the test (Do), observing and learning from the consequences (Study), and determining what modifications should be made to the test (Act).
PHO - Primary Health Organisation- a group primary health care providers, usually GP’s.
POC -Package of Care
PPS - Personality Psychotherapy Service
PRN -Prescribed for use when required
RFP - Request for Proposal. Inviting providers to put in a tender to provide a service.
RFRIDS - Regional Forensic, Rehabilitation and Intellectual Disability Service
RRAIS - Regional Rangatahi Adolescent Inpatient Service
PRIMHED - Project for the Integration of Mental Health Data
SMMH - Specialist Maternal Mental Health
STARS - Short term Assessment and Recovery. Houses located in the community where people experiencing acute mental distress can stay short term
TAS - Technical Advisory Service (Regional- supports DHB’s with health information, service planning and external audits)
TBC - To be confirmed
TJF - The Journey Forward
TACT - Team for Assertive Community Treatment
TOR - Terms of Reference
TWOM - Te Whare O Matairangi- ward 27 at Wellington Hospital
RFP - Request for Proposal
WCC - Wellington City Council
Wet House - A house for chronic alcoholics that doesn’t require them to stop drinking but works on harm reduction.
WIPA - Wellington Independent Practice Association
YSS - Youth Specialty Service