| Acronym | Phrase | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| H&S | Health and Safety | ||
| H/O | History Of | ||
| H2H | Hospital to Home | ||
| H@H | Hospital at Home | ||
| HA | Health Authority | ||
| HAC | Heart Attack Centre | ||
| HAD-D | Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale Depression Sub-Scale | ||
| HADS | Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale | ||
| HAGCCI | Health Advisory Group on Chemical Contamination Incidents | ||
| HAI | Health Associated Infection | ||
| HALO | Hospital Ambulance Liaison Officer | ||
| HaN | Hospital at Night | ||
| HAP | Hospital Acquired Pneumonia | ||
| HAP | Hospital Admission Prevention | ||
| HAPPI | Hospital Antibiotic Prudent Prescriber Indicator | ||
| HAREM | Had Appendices and Resolved/Recurred Emergency | ||
| HARP | Health Advanced Research program | ||
| HART | Hazardous Area Response Team | ||
| HASCIP | Health and Social Care Integration Program | ||
| HASU | Hyper Acute Stroke Unit | ||
| HASU | Hyper Acute Stroke Unit | ||
| HAWB | Health & Wellbeing Board | ||
| HAZ | Hazards | ||
| HAZ | Health Action Zone | ||
| HAZMAT | Hazardous Materials | ||
| HB | Haemoglobin | ||
| HB | Health Board | ||
| HBA | Home Based Abuse | ||
| HBA | Honour Based Abuse | ||
| HbA1c | Glycated Haemoglobin Test for Diabetes | ||
| HBN | Health Building Notes | ||
| HBO | Hyperbaric Oxygen Services | ||
| HBPC | Hospital Based Primary Care | ||
| HBPM | Home Blood Pressure Monitoring | ||
| HBPoS | Health Based Places of Safety | ||
| HCA | Health Care Assistant | ||
| HCAI | Healthcare Associated Infection | ||
| HCAS | High-Cost Area Supplement | ||
| HCC | Healthcare Commission | ||
| HCC | Hertfordshire County Council | ||
| HCCN | Huntingdon Community Cancer Network | ||
| HCG | Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin (used in pregnancy testing) | ||
| HCHS | Hospital and Community Health Services | ||
| HCLA | High-Cost Living Allowance | ||
| HCP | Healthcare Professional | ||
| HCP | Healthy Child Program | ||
| HCPC | Health and Care Professions Council | ||
| HCRS | Haematuria Cancer Risk Scores | ||
| HCS | Healthcare Compensation Service | ||
| HCSW | Healthcare Support Worker | ||
| HCTED | High-Cost Tariff Excluded Devices | ||
| HCW | Health Commission Wales | ||
| HDL | Health Department Letter | ||
| HDL | High Density Lipoprotein | ||
| HDP | Hospital Discharge Programme | ||
| HDR | Health & Data Research UK | ||
| HDR | High Dose Rate Brachytherapy | ||
| HDS | Home Delivery Service | ||
| HDU | High Dependency Unit | ||
| HEA | Higher Education Academy | ||
| HEA | Health Equality Audit | ||
| HEAT | Health Efficiency Access Treatment | ||
| HEB | Hospital Executive Board | ||
| HED | Healthcare Evaluation Data | ||
| HEE | Health Education England | ||
| HEE | Health Enterprise East | ||
| HEFCE | Higher Education Funding Council for England | ||
| HEI | Healthcare Environment Inspectorate | ||
| HEI | Higher Education Institution | ||
| HEKSS | Health Education Kent, Surrey and Sussex | ||
| HEMS | Helicopter Emergency Medical Service | ||
| HEMU | Harlow Ethnic and Minority Umbrella | ||
| HENSE | Health and Education National Strategic Exchange | ||
| HEOC | Health and Emergency Operation Centre | ||
| HER | Electronic Health Record | ||
| HES | Hospital Episode Statistics | ||
| HETT | Health Excellence Through Technology | ||
| HETV | Health Education Thames Valley | ||
| HF | Heart Failure | ||
| HF | Health Foundation | ||
| HFE | Human Factors Exchange | ||
| HFEA | Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority | ||
| HFH | Home from Hospital | ||
| HFMA | Healthcare Financial Management Association | ||
| HFRS | Hospital Frailty Risk Score | ||
| HFSS | High in Fat, Salt and Sugar | ||
| HG | Haemoglobin | ||
| HGC | Human Genetics Commission | ||
| HH | Heatherwood Hospital | ||
| HIA | Health Impact Assessment | ||
| HIC | Health Information Centre | ||
| HICC | Hospital Infection Control Committee | ||
| HICF | Health Innovation Challenge Fund | ||
| HIEC | Health Innovation and Education Cluster | ||
| HIFU | High Intensity Focused Ultrasound | ||
| HII | High-Impact Innovation | ||
| HIMP | Health Improvement and Modernisation Plan | ||
| HIP | Health Innovation Partnership | ||
| HIS | Health Improvement Scotland | ||
| HIS | Health Information Service/System | ||
| HIT | Histology Independent Therapy | ||
| HIV | Human Immunodeficiency Virus | ||
| HIW | Health Improvement Wales | ||
| HLC | Healthy Living Centre | ||
| HLE | Healthy Life Expectancy | ||
| HLP | Healthy Living Pharmacy | ||
| HLRCC | Hereditary Leiomatosis and Renal Cell Cancer | ||
| HLT | Heart & Lung Transplantation | ||
| HMIC | Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary | ||
| HMIP | Her Majesty’ Inspectorate of Prisons | ||
| HMMC | Hospital Medicines Management Committee | ||
| HMO | Health Maintenance Organisation (USA) | ||
| HMS | High & Medium Secure Mental Health | ||
| HMT | His Majesties Treasury | ||
| HNA | Holistic Needs Assessment | ||
| HNA | Hospital Needs Assessment | ||
| HNPCC | Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer (alternative name for Lynch Syndrome | ||
| HNSCC | Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer | ||
| HOD | Heads Of Departments | ||
| HoLEP | Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate | ||
| HOM | Hospital Operations Management | ||
| HoM | Head of Midwifery | ||
| HoN | Head of Nursing | ||
| HoNOS | Health of the Nation Outcome Scales | ||
| HOOF | Home Oxygen Order Form | ||
| HOPE | Help to Overcome Problems Effectively | ||
| HOSC | Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee | ||
| HOSPEDIA | Supplier of Bedside Communication and Media Systems | ||
| HoT | Head of Terms (Contract Summary) | ||
| HPA | Haemophilia and Bleeding Disorders | ||
| HPA | Health Protection Agency | ||
| HPB | Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary (Surgeon) | ||
| HPC | Health Professional Council | ||
| HPFT | Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust | ||
| HPMA | Healthcare People Management Association | ||
| HPN | Healthcare Providers Network | ||
| HPRC | Hereditary Papillary Renal Cancer | ||
| HPU | Health Protection Unit | ||
| HPV | Human Papilloma Virus | ||
| HQID | Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Project | ||
| HQIP | Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership | ||
| HR | Heart Rate | ||
| HR | Human Resources | ||
| HRA | Health Research Authority | ||
| HRBP for ER | Human Resources Business Partner for Employee Relations | ||
| HRC | Honorary Research Contract | ||
| HRG | Healthcare Resource Group | ||
| HRG4+ | Health Resource Group Currency Calculator | ||
| HRQL | Health-Related Quality of Life (EuroQol Group) | ||
| HRT | Hormone Replacement Therapy | ||
| HS&DR | Health Services and Delivery Research | ||
| HSC | Health and Safety Commission | ||
| HSC | Health and Social Care | ||
| HSC | Health Select Committee (House of Commons) | ||
| HSC | Horizon Scanning Centre | ||
| HSCDS | Health and Social Care Digital Service | ||
| HSCI | Health Service Cost Index | ||
| HSCIC | Health and Social Care Information Centre | ||
| HSCN | Health & Social Care Network | ||
| HSCT | Health and Social Care Trust | ||
| HSCVF | Health and Social Care Volunteering | ||
| HSDU | Hospital Sterilisation and Disinfection Unit | ||
| HSE | Health and Safety Executive | ||
| HSE | Health Survey for England | ||
| HSIB | Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch | ||
| HSJ | Health Service Journal | ||
| HSLI | Health System Lead Investment | ||
| HSMR | Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio | ||
| HSR | Health Service Research | ||
| HSRIC | Horizon Scanning Research and Intelligence Centre | ||
| HSRN | Health Services Research Network | ||
| HSS | Health Science Services | ||
| HSS | Highly Specialised Services | ||
| HSSF | Health Systems Support Framework | ||
| HSSF | Health Safety Security and Fire | ||
| HSSI | High Severity Service Incidents | ||
| HSW | Healthcare Support Worker | ||
| HT | Height | ||
| HTA | Health Technology Assessment | ||
| HTA | Human Tissue Act | ||
| HTA | Human Tissue Authority | ||
| HTC | Healthcare Technology Cooperative | ||
| HTC | Hospital Transfusion Committee | ||
| HTM | Health Technical Memoranda | ||
| HTMR | Hubs for Trials Methodology Research | ||
| HTN | Hypertension | ||
| HUHY | Help Us Help You | ||
| HUI | Health Utilities Index | ||
| HVCCG | Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning Group | ||
| HVLC | High Volume Low Complexity | ||
| HWB | Health and Wellbeing Board | ||
| HWBE | Health & Wellbeing Event | ||
| HWBIS | Heath & Wellbeing Information and Support | ||
| HWD | Heatherwood | ||
| HWE | Healthwatch England | ||
| HWE | Healthwatch Essex | ||
| HWE | Hertfordshire and West Essex | ||
| HWK | Healthwatch Kent | ||
| HWP | Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals | ||
| HX | History | ||
| HYP | Hypertension |
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