| Acronym | Phrase | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| E&D | Equality and Diversity | ||
| E-Coli | Escherichia coli | ||
| e-GIF | (Electronic) Government Interoperability Framework | ||
| e-KSF | (Electronic) Knowledge and Skills Framework | ||
| E-PAG | Essex Patient Advisory Group | ||
| e-RS | e-Referral System (Electronic) | ||
| EA | Enhanced appointment | ||
| EA | Enhanced Access | ||
| EAB | Enhanced Assessment Bed | ||
| EAF | Expert Advisory Forum | ||
| EAG | Expert Advisory Group | ||
| EAST | Easy, Attractive, Social and Timely | ||
| EAT | Elderly Assessment Team | ||
| EAU | Emergency Assessment Unit | ||
| EAU | European Association of Urology Guidelines | ||
| EBCD | Experience-Based Co-Design | ||
| EBE | Expert By Experience | ||
| EBH | Evidence-Based Healthcare | ||
| EBI | Evidence Based Intervention | ||
| EBITDA | Earnings before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortisation | ||
| EBM | Evidence-Based Medicine | ||
| EBMT | European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplant | ||
| EBRT | External Beam Radiotherapy | ||
| EBS | Electronic Booking Service | ||
| EBS | Emergency Bed Service | ||
| EC | Essex Cares | ||
| EC | Endometrial Cancer | ||
| EC | Elective Care | ||
| ECA | Emergency Care Assistant | ||
| ECAD | Earliest Clinically Appropriate Date | ||
| ECAP | Emergency Care Action Plan | ||
| ECC | Essex Cardiothoracic Centre | ||
| ECC | Essex County Council | ||
| ECCOS | Essex County Council Carers Core Offer of Support | ||
| ECCT | Extended Community Care Team | ||
| ECDA | Ethics Committee with Delegated Authority for Health, Science, Engineering and Technology | ||
| ECDP | Essex Coalition of Disabled People | ||
| ECDS | Emergency Care Data Set | ||
| ECF | Essex Community Foundation | ||
| ECG | Electrocardiogram | ||
| ECHO | Echocardiogram ultrasound scan | ||
| ECHR | European Convention on Human Rights | ||
| ECIP | Emergency Care Improvement Program | ||
| ECIST | Emergency Care Intensive Support Team | ||
| ECJ | European Court of Justice | ||
| ECL | Essex Carers Limited. Supports older people, adults with learning disabilities, adults receiving reablement services and people with sensory impairment in South East England | ||
| ECLO | Eye Clinic Liaison Officer | ||
| ECMC | Experimental Cancer Medicine | ||
| ECMS | Experimental Cancer Medication Centre | ||
| ECN | Essex Carers’ Network | ||
| ECN | Extended Choice Network | ||
| ECOG | Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group | ||
| ECP | Emergency Care Practitioner | ||
| ECPN | Eurpean College of Neuropsychopharmacology | ||
| ECR | Electronic Care Register | ||
| ECRIC | Eastern Cancer Registration and Information Centre | ||
| ECS | Essex Carers Support | ||
| ECS | Enfield Community Service | ||
| ECSB | Essex Children Safeguarding Board | ||
| ECSW | Emergency Care Support Worker | ||
| ECT | Enhanced Care Teams | ||
| ECT | Electroconvulsive Therapy | ||
| ECTP | Elective Care Transformation Programme | ||
| ED | Emergency Department | ||
| ED | Erectile Dysfunction | ||
| ED | Executive Director | ||
| ED | Eating Disorders | ||
| ED | Early Diagnosis | ||
| ED&I | Equality, Diversity and Inclusion | ||
| EDAAT | Essex Drug and Alcohol Action Team | ||
| EDAP | Essex Drug and Alcohol Partnership | ||
| EDC | Emergency Dispatch Centre | ||
| EDC | Equality and Diversity Council | ||
| EDD | Estimated Date of Discharge | ||
| EDI | Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion | ||
| EDIG | Equality, Diversity and INclusion Group | ||
| EDIN | Eating Disorder Information Network | ||
| EDIN | Early Diagnosis Imaging Network | ||
| EDL | Electronic Discharge Letter | ||
| EDM | Electronic Data Management | ||
| EDN | Electronic Discharge Notification | ||
| EDS | Edinburgh Dysphasia Score | ||
| EDS | Emergency Duty Service | ||
| EDS | Equality Delivery System | ||
| EDS | Specialised Services for Eating Disorders | ||
| EDS2 | NHS Equality and Delivery System | ||
| EDT | Emergency Duty Team | ||
| EDTA | Ethylene Diamine Tetra Acetic. It is used in medicine to prevent blood samples from clotting. | ||
| EDTA_GFR | Blood Tests for Kidney Function | ||
| EDU | Emergency Decisions Unit | ||
| EE | Employee | ||
| EEA | European Economic Area | ||
| EEAST | East of England Ambulance Service Trust | ||
| EED | Expected Exit Date | ||
| EEG | Electroencaphalogram | ||
| EEP | Eczema Education Program | ||
| EFAW | Emergency First Aid at Work | ||
| EFC | Employers for Carers | ||
| eFI | e-Frailty Index | ||
| EFL | External Financing Limit | ||
| EFM | Estate Facility Management | ||
| EGA | Estimated Gestational Age | ||
| eGFR | Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Key indicator of Kidney function | ||
| EHC | Emergency Hormone Contraception | ||
| EHC | Education Health and Care Plan | ||
| EHCH | Enhanced Care in Care Homes | ||
| EHCP | Education, Health and Care Plan | ||
| EHHR | Carers Trust Epping Forest, Harlow, Havering & Redbridge | ||
| EHIA | Equality and Health Inequalities Impact Assessment | ||
| EHIC | European Health Insurance Card | ||
| eHNA | Electronic Hospital Needs Assessment | ||
| EHP | Early Help Plan | ||
| EHPF | European Health Policy Forum | ||
| EHR | Electronic Health Record | ||
| EHRC | Equality and Human Rights | ||
| EHRG | Equality and Human Rights Group (Department of Health) | ||
| EI | Early Intervention | ||
| EIA | Equality Impact Assessment | ||
| EIC | European Innovation Council | ||
| EIP | Early Intervention in Psychosis | ||
| EIR | Environmental Information Regulations | ||
| EIS | Early Intervention Service | ||
| EIV | Early Intervention Vehicle | ||
| EJV | External Jugular Vein | ||
| EKHUFT | East Kent University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | ||
| ELFT | East London Foundation Trust | ||
| ELSCS | Elective Caesarean Section | ||
| ELT | Executive Leadership Team | ||
| EM | Emergency Medicine | ||
| EM | Experimental Medicine | ||
| EMA | Early Medication Abortion | ||
| EMA | European Medicines Agency | ||
| EMAHSN | East Midlands Academic Health Science Network | ||
| EMBASE | Excerta Medical Database is a Biomedical Pharmacological Database of Published Literature | ||
| EMBSE | Excepta Medica Database | ||
| EMD | Emergency Medical Dispatcher (Ambulance Service) | ||
| EMDIRS | Maternity and Infant Care Database | ||
| EME | Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation | ||
| EMG | Electromyogram Used to Carry out Nerve Conduction Studies | ||
| EMLSC | Emergency Caesarean Section | ||
| EMOP | Electronic Medication Optimisation Pathway | ||
| EMR | Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (Removal of precancerous early-stage cancer from digestive tract) | ||
| EMRAD | East Midland Radiology Consortium | ||
| EMS | Elderly Mobility Scale | ||
| EMS | Emergency Medical Services | ||
| EMT | Emergency Medical Technician | ||
| EMU | Early Morning Urine Sample | ||
| EMU | Enfield Mental Health User Group | ||
| ENC | Exeter Neuroscience Consortium | ||
| ENDPAC | Enriching of New Onset Diabetes for Pancreatic Cancer | ||
| ENDPB | Executive Non-Departmental Public Body | ||
| ENHT | East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust | ||
| ENP | Emergency Nurse Practitioners | ||
| ENRICH | Enabling Research in Care Homes | ||
| ENT | Ear, Nose and Throat | ||
| EO | Employers’ Organisation | ||
| EOC | Emergency Operation Centre | ||
| EOC | Experience of Care | ||
| EOE | East of England | ||
| EOF | Education Outcomes Framework | ||
| EOI | Expression of Interest | ||
| EOL | End of Life | ||
| EOLC | End of Life Care | ||
| EOLCA | End of Life Care | ||
| EORTC | European Organisation for Research & Treatment of Cancer | ||
| EORTC QLQ-C30 | Questionnaire developed to assess the quality of life of cancer patients | ||
| EOTS | End of Treatment Summaries | ||
| EP | Emergency Presentation (in Cancer diagnosis) | ||
| EP | Epilepsy | ||
| EPA | Enduring Power of Attorney | ||
| EPaCCS | Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems | ||
| ePCR | Electronic Patient Care Record | ||
| EPCS | Extended |Primary Care Service | ||
| EPCT | Extended Primary Care Team | ||
| EPCU | Department of Health’s Emergency Planning Coordination Group | ||
| EPDA | European Parkinson’s Disease Association | ||
| EPG | Executive Performance Group | ||
| EPI | Effective Professional Interaction | ||
| EPIC | European Prospective Investigation into Cancer | ||
| EPIC | Engage-Participate-Involve-Collaborate | ||
| EPIC | Essex Primary Care Inter-Professional Centre | ||
| EPMA | Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration | ||
| EPP | Expert Patient Programme | ||
| EPR | Electronic Patient Record | ||
| EPR | Electronic Payment Records | ||
| ePROMS | electronic Patient Reported Outcome Measures | ||
| EPRR | Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response | ||
| EPS | Electronic Prescription Service | ||
| EPSN | European Society for Paediatric Nephrology | ||
| EPUFT | Essex Partnership University Foundation Trust | ||
| EPUT | Essex Partnership University Foundation Trust | ||
| EQ-5D-5L | Evaluation questionnaire descriptive system comprises five dimensions mobility, selfcare, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression. Each dimension has 5 levels | ||
| EQ5D | European Quality of Life Questionnaire. The EQ-5D comprises five questions on mobility, self-care, pain, usual activities, and psychological status with five possible answers for each item. | ||
| EQA | External Quality Assessment | ||
| EQIA | Equalities Impact Assessment | ||
| EQUATOR | Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research Network | ||
| EQUIP | Education and Quality in Primary Care | ||
| EQUIP | Enhancing the Quality of User Involved Care Planning | ||
| ERCP | Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography | ||
| ERDB | England Revalidation Delivery Board | ||
| ERF | Elective Recovery Funding | ||
| ERIC | Estates Return Information Collection | ||
| ERICA | Exeter Electronic Risk Assessment for Cancer | ||
| ERJ | European Respiratory Journal | ||
| ERMA | Emergency Response Management Arrangements | ||
| ERMS | Electronic Remote Monitoring System | ||
| EROC | System Elective Recovery Outpatients Collection | ||
| EROS | Electronic Requisitioning and Ordering System | ||
| ERP | Effective Referrals Programme | ||
| ERS | Electronic Referral System | ||
| ERS | Specialist Medical Transport Company | ||
| ERSF | Essex Request for Support Form | ||
| ERSPC | European Randomised Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer | ||
| ES | Enhanced Service | ||
| ESA | Employment Support Allowance | ||
| ESAT | Early Senior Assessment and Treatment | ||
| ESAT | Emergency Senior Assessment Team | ||
| ESC | Emergency Services Collaborative | ||
| ESCAPE-pain | Enabling Self-Management and Coping with Arthritic Pain | ||
| ESD | Early Supported Discharge | ||
| ESGO | European Society of Gynaecological Oncology | ||
| ESIF | European Structural and Investment Fund | ||
| ESMO | European Society for Medicine | ||
| ESNEFT | East Suffolk & North Essex Foundation Trust | ||
| ESOL | English for Speakers of Other Languages | ||
| ESR | Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate | ||
| ESR | Electronic Staff Record | ||
| ESRC | Economic and Social Research council | ||
| ESRIG | Executive Serious Incident Group | ||
| ESS | Emergency Short Stay | ||
| ETA | Estimated Time of Arrival | ||
| eTCI | Electronic To Come In | ||
| eTCP | Electronic Transfer of Care to Pharmacy | ||
| ETD | Education, Training and Development | ||
| ETEBCON | Event, Thoughts, Emotions, Behaviour, Consequences | ||
| ETP | Electronic Transmission of Prescriptions | ||
| ETS | Emissions Trading Scheme (EU) | ||
| ETT | Endotracheal Tube | ||
| ETTF | Estates and Technology Transformation Fund | ||
| EUA | Expert Under Approval | ||
| EUA | Examination Under Anaesthetic | ||
| EUPATI | European Patients’ Academy | ||
| EUPD | Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder | ||
| EUROPAC | European Registry of Familial Pancreatitis | ||
| EVD | External Ventricular Drain | ||
| EVMC | Estuary View Medical Centre | ||
| EWAS | Enterprise-Wide Arrangements | ||
| EWC | Expected Week of Childbirth | ||
| EWMHS | Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Service | ||
| EWS | Early Warning system | ||
| EWS | Essex Wellbeing Service | ||
| EWTD | European Working-Time Directive | ||
| EYFS | Early Years Foundation Stage |
A connected and experienced group of people aiming to influence regional NHS strategy by presenting patient, carer and family perspectives.