| Acronym | Phrase | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| P&EOLC | Palliative & End of Life Care | ||
| P&P | Pensions and Payroll | ||
| P-MERIT | Paramedic Medical Emergency Response Incident Teams | ||
| P/C | Presenting Complaint | ||
| PA | Personal Assistant | ||
| PA | Physician Assistant | ||
| PA | Programmed Activity | ||
| PAB | Patient Advisory Board | ||
| PAB | Professional Advisory Board | ||
| PABC | Pregnancy Associated Breast Cancer | ||
| PAC | Public Accounts Committee (House of Commons) | ||
| PACCO | Organisation Providing Support for Mental Health/Drug Misuse | ||
| PACE | Police and Criminal Evidence Act (1984) | ||
| PACE | Promoting Action for Clinical Effectiveness | ||
| PACS | Picture Archiving and Communications System | ||
| PACS | Primary and Acute Care System | ||
| PACU | Post-Anaesthesia Care unit | ||
| PAD | Peripheral Artery Disease | ||
| PAD | Public Access Defibrillator | ||
| PAF | Performance Assessment Framework | ||
| PAG | Patient Advisory Group | ||
| PAH | Princess Alexander Hospital | ||
| PAHT | Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust | ||
| PALS | Patient Advice and Liaison Service | ||
| PAM | Patient Activation Measure | ||
| PAMMS | Provider Assessment and Market Manager Solution | ||
| PAMVR | Physician Associate Managed Voluntary Register | ||
| PAN | Public Partner Advisory Network | ||
| PANICOA | Prevention of Abuse and Neglect in Institutional Care of Older Adults | ||
| PAP | Private Ambulance Provider | ||
| PAPPI | Positive Ageing Patient and Public Engagement | ||
| PAR | Patient at Risk | ||
| PARI | Positive Ageing Research Institute | ||
| PARP | Poly-ADP Ribose Polymerase. Cancer treatment drug. | ||
| PAS | Patient Administration System | ||
| PAS | Private Ambulance Service | ||
| PASLU | Patient Access Scheme Liaison Unit (NICE) | ||
| PASS | Patient Advice and Support Service | ||
| PAT | Pets as Therapy | ||
| PAU | Paediatric Assessment Unit | ||
| PAU | Patient Assessment Unit | ||
| PBC | Practice-Based Commissioning | ||
| PBM | Patient Blood Management | ||
| PBMC | Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell | ||
| PbR | Payment by Results | ||
| PBS | Positive Behavioural Support | ||
| PBT | Proton Beam Therapy | ||
| PC | Palliative Care | ||
| PC | After Food | ||
| PC | Personal Computer | ||
| PCA | Paediatric and Congenital Arrhythmia | ||
| PCAF | Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship | ||
| PCaW | Public Concern at Work | ||
| PCB | Provider Collaborative Board | ||
| PCBC | Pre-Consultation Business Case | ||
| PCC | Police and Crime Commissioner | ||
| PCC | Primary Care Centre | ||
| PCCC | Primary Care Commissioning Committee | ||
| PCDS | Prime Care Dermatological Society | ||
| PCEC | Patient Client Experience Committee | ||
| PCF | Patient Choice Facilitator | ||
| PCF | Patient/Participant Consent Form | ||
| PCFU | Patient Centred Follow-Up | ||
| PCG | Primary Care Group | ||
| PCGS | Peninsular Critical Genetic Service | ||
| PCH | Primary Care Home | ||
| PCI | Percutaneous Coronary Intervention | ||
| PCI | Personalised Care Institute | ||
| PCIG | Patient Catering Improvement Group | ||
| PCIP | Primary Care Investment Plan | ||
| PCIS | Primary Care Information Service | ||
| PCMD | Peninsular College of Medicine and Dentistry | ||
| PCN | Paediatric Community Nurse | ||
| PCN | Primary Care Network | ||
| PCO | Primary Care Organisation | ||
| PCORI | Patient-Centred Outcomes Research Institute | ||
| PCP | Person Centred Plan | ||
| PCP-Q | Prostate Cancer Patient Questionnaire | ||
| PCQP | Prostate Cancer Questionnaire-Patient | ||
| PCR | Protein/Creatinine Ratio | ||
| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction | ||
| PCR | Provision Coverage Ratio | ||
| pCR | Pathological Complete Response in neoadjuvant treatment of high-risk early-stage breast cancer | ||
| PCRG | Patient and Community Representative’s Group | ||
| PCRJ | Primary Care Respiratory Journal | ||
| PCRMP | Prostate Cancer Risk Management Programme | ||
| PCRN | Primary Care Research Network | ||
| PCS | Paediatric Cancer Services | ||
| PCS | Productive Community Services | ||
| PCSP | Personalised Care and Support Planning | ||
| PCT | Primary Care Trust | ||
| PCT | Procalcitonin is chemical produced in the blood when there has been a bacterial infection, sepsis or tissue damage | ||
| PCTPS | Primary Care Trust-Provided Services | ||
| PCV | Packed Cell Volume (blood test) | ||
| PCV | Pneumococcal Disease | ||
| PD | Peritoneal Dialysis | ||
| PD | Parkinson’s Disease | ||
| PD | Practice Development | ||
| PD&CN | Physical Disabilities and Complex Needs | ||
| PD-L1 | Programmed Death-Ligand | ||
| PDA | Patient Decision Aid | ||
| PDAC | Pancreatic Duct Adenocarcinoma | ||
| PDAs | Product Development Awards | ||
| PDC | Public Dividend Capital | ||
| PDD | Predicted Date of Discharge | ||
| Portable Document File | |||
| PDG | Programme Development Grant | ||
| PDI | Protected Health Information | ||
| PDN | Practice Development Nurse | ||
| PDP | Personal Development Plan | ||
| PDR | Performance Development Review | ||
| PDRA | Post Doctoral Research Associate | ||
| PDS | Personal Demographic Service | ||
| PDSA | Plan Do Study Act Action Cycle | ||
| PDSD | Prolonged Duress Stress Disorder or Post Traumatic Stress | ||
| PDT | Photodynamic Therapy | ||
| PDU | Problem Drug Use | ||
| PE | Patient Experience | ||
| PE | Pulmonary Embolism | ||
| PEAT | Patient Environment Action Team | ||
| PEC | Patient Experience Committee | ||
| PEC | Professional Executive Committee (of PCT) | ||
| PECTP | Public and Community Involvement, Engagement and Participation | ||
| PEE | Patient Experience and Engagement | ||
| PEF | Peak Expiratory Flow | ||
| PEF | Practice Educator Facilitator | ||
| PEG | Patient Experience and Engagement Group | ||
| PEG | Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy | ||
| PEIG | Patient Experience and Involvement Group | ||
| PEMS | Patient Experience Measures | ||
| PEN | Patient Experience Network | ||
| PENNA | Patient Experience Network National Awards | ||
| PEP | Personal Education Plan | ||
| PESTLE | Political, Economic, Sociological, Technological, Legal and Environmental | ||
| PET | Patient Experience Team | ||
| PET | Positron Emission Tomography | ||
| PET | Patient Experience Tracker | ||
| PET-CT | Positron Emission Tomography-Computerised Tomography | ||
| PFCC | Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner | ||
| PFI | Private Finance Initiative | ||
| PGCME | Postgraduate, and Continuing Medical Education | ||
| PGD | Patient Group Direction | ||
| PGEC | Post Graduate Education Centre | ||
| PGFAR | Programme Grants For Applied Research | ||
| PGMC | Post-Graduate Medical Centre | ||
| PGWBI | Psychological General Wellbeing Index | ||
| PH | Public Health | ||
| PHB | Personal Health Budget | ||
| PHE | Public Health England | ||
| PHIB | Population Health Improvement Board | ||
| PHM | Population Health Management | ||
| PHO | Public Health Observatory | ||
| PHOF | Public Health Outcomes Framework | ||
| PHPES | Public Health Practice Evaluation Scheme | ||
| PHQ9 | Nine Item Patient Health Questionnaire | ||
| PHR | Personal Health Record | ||
| PHR | Public Health Research | ||
| PHS | Personal and Household Services | ||
| PHSO | Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman | ||
| PhwSI | Pharmacist with Special Interest | ||
| PHYSIO | Physiotherapist | ||
| PI | Peripheral Iridotomy | ||
| PI | Principal Investigator | ||
| PI&E | Public Involvement and Engagement | ||
| PIAF | Public Involvement Accountability Forum | ||
| PIAG | Patient Information Advisory Group | ||
| PIC | Paediatric Intensive Care | ||
| PIC | Performance Improving Committee | ||
| PICC | Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter | ||
| PICD | Procurement, Investment and Commercial Division (DoH) | ||
| PICS | Participant Identification Centres | ||
| PICU | Paediatric Intensive Care Unit | ||
| PICU | Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit | ||
| PICUPS | Post ICU Presentation Screen | ||
| PID | Project Initiation Document | ||
| PID | Patient Identifiable Data | ||
| PIDA | Public Interest Disclosure Act | ||
| PIF TICK | The PIF TICK is the UK-wide Quality Mark for Health Information | ||
| PIFU | Patient Initiated Follow-Up | ||
| PIG | Policy Implementation Guide | ||
| PII | Patient/ Person Identifiable Information | ||
| PIIAF | Public Involvement Impact Assessment Framework | ||
| PILS | Patient Information Leaflets | ||
| PIMHS | Parent and Infant Mental Health Service | ||
| PIMS | Pharmacy Information Management System | ||
| PIN | Public Information Notice | ||
| PINCER | Pharmacy-Led IT-Based Intervention to Reduce Clinically Inappropriate Medication Errors in Primary Care | ||
| PIP | People In Partnership | ||
| PIP | Personal Independence Payment | ||
| PIPEC | Public Involvement and Patient Experience Committee | ||
| PIPOT | Persons in Positions of Trust | ||
| PIR | Provider Initial Report | ||
| PIRAD | Prostate Imaging and Reporting Data System | ||
| PIRADS | Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data | ||
| PIS | Participant Information Sheet | ||
| PIVOT | Prostate Cancer Intervention Versus Observation | ||
| PKB | Patient Knows Best | ||
| PKD | Polycystic Kidney Disease | ||
| PL | Program Lead | ||
| PLA | Peer Leadership Academy | ||
| PLACE | Patient-Lead Assessments of the Care Environment | ||
| PLATO | Postgraduate Learning and Teaching Online | ||
| PLC | Pigmented Lesion Clinic | ||
| PLC | Public Limited Company | ||
| PLCO | Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Trial by PSA | ||
| PLCV | Procedures of Limited Clinical Value | ||
| PLE | Person with Lived Experience | ||
| PLGF | Placental Growth Factor (testing for pre-eclampsia) | ||
| PLIC | Patient-Level Information and Costing | ||
| PLICS | Patient Level Information and Costing System | ||
| PLOST | Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment | ||
| PLRH | Patient Lead Research Hub | ||
| PLS | Patient Liaison Service | ||
| PLT | Political Leadership Team | ||
| PLWC | People Living With Cancer | ||
| PLWD | People Living With Dementia | ||
| PM | Afternoon or Evening | ||
| PM | Program Manager | ||
| PMB | Post-Menopausal Bleeding | ||
| PMCS | Primary Medical Care Services | ||
| PMDU | Prime Minister ‘s Delivery Unit | ||
| PMETB | Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board | ||
| PMG | Performance Management Group | ||
| PMH | Past Medical History | ||
| PMH | Perinatal Mental Health | ||
| PMHL | Paediatric Mental Health Liaison | ||
| PMHW | Productive Mental Health Ward | ||
| PMI | Private Medical Insurance | ||
| PMIP | Pathology Messaging Implementation and Programmes | ||
| PMO | Project Management Office | ||
| PMRT | Perinatal Mortality Review | ||
| PMS | Patient Meals Service | ||
| PMS | Peninsular Medical School | ||
| PMS | Personal Medical Services (Surgery Who Provides Additional Specialised Services e.g, Mental Health Nurse/Doctor | ||
| PMS | Primary Medical Services | ||
| PMS | Premenstrual Syndrome | ||
| PMVA | Prevention Management of Violence and Aggression | ||
| PN | Patient Navigator | ||
| PNA | Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment | ||
| PND | Postnatal Depression | ||
| PO | Medication to be Taken Orally | ||
| POA | Preoperative Assessment | ||
| POA | Post Operative Assessment | ||
| POAC | Pre-Operative Assessment Clinic | ||
| POC | Package of Care | ||
| PoC | People of Colour | ||
| POC | Plan of Care | ||
| POC | Point of Care | ||
| POC | Product of Conception (under 12-week miscarriage) | ||
| POC | Program of Care | ||
| POCT | Point of Care Testing | ||
| POCUS | Point of Care Ultrasound | ||
| POD | Patient’s Own Drugs | ||
| POD | Pre-Operative Department | ||
| PODP | Principal Operating Department Practitioner | ||
| POET | Personal Budgets Outcomes and Evaluation Tool | ||
| POHWER | People of Hertfordshire Want Equal Rights | ||
| PoLCE | Procedures of Limited Clinical Effectiveness | ||
| POM | Prescription-Only Medicines | ||
| POMH-UK | Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health – UK | ||
| POP | Personalised Outpatient Programme | ||
| POP | Plaster Of Paris | ||
| POPP | Partnerships for Older People Project | ||
| POPS | Perioperative Care of Older People | ||
| PoSC | Protection of Social Care | ||
| POSCU | Paediatric Oncology Shared Care Unit | ||
| POSHH | Partnership for Occupational Safety and Health in Healthcare | ||
| POSSUM | Physiological and Operative Severity Score for the enumeration of mortality and morbidity | ||
| POVA | Protection of Vulnerable Adults | ||
| PP | Paramedic Practitioner | ||
| PPC | Patient Pathway Coordinator | ||
| PPC | Preferred Priorities of Care | ||
| PPC | Pre-Payment Certificate (Prescription) | ||
| PPCI | Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention | ||
| PPE | Patient and Public Engagement | ||
| PPE | Personal Protective Equipment | ||
| PPEI | Patient and Public Engagement and Involvement | ||
| PPF | Priorities and Planning Framework | ||
| PPG | Patient Participation Group | ||
| PPI | Patient and Public Involvement | ||
| PPI | Patient Pathway Identifier | ||
| PPI | Proton Pump Inhibitor (works by reducing amount of stomach acid) | ||
| PPIB | Purchase Price Index and Benchmarking Tool | ||
| PPIC | Patient and Public Involvement Committee | ||
| PPIC | Private Patient Income Cap | ||
| PPIE | Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement | ||
| PPIF | Patient and Public Involvement Forum | ||
| PPM | Planned Preventative Management | ||
| PPN | Psychological Professions Network | ||
| PPO | Preferred Provider Organisation | ||
| PPP | Patient and Public Partner | ||
| PPP | Public–Private Partnership | ||
| PPRS | Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme | ||
| PPS | Pint Prevalence Survey | ||
| PPT | PowerPoint | ||
| PPU | Private Patient Units | ||
| PPV | Patient and Public Voice | ||
| PPV | Positive Predictive Value | ||
| PPVAG | Patient and Public Voice Assurance Group | ||
| PPVe | Patient and Public Voice Online Education System | ||
| PQASSO | Practical Quality Assurance Standard for Small Organisation’s | ||
| PQAT | Paediatrics Quality Assessment Tool | ||
| PQQ | Pre-Qualification Questionnaire | ||
| PQS | Pharmacy Quality Scheme | ||
| PR | Public Relations | ||
| PR | Rectally | ||
| PRA | Patient Research Ambassador | ||
| PRB | Pay Review Body | ||
| PRC | Performance and Remuneration Committee | ||
| PrCA | Prostate Cancer | ||
| PRCC | Principles and Rules for Cooperation and Competition | ||
| PREDICT | Breast Cancer Diagnostic Tool | ||
| PREM | Patient Reported Experience Measure | ||
| PREMS | Patient Reported Experience Measures | ||
| PREVENT (duty) | Prevent People from Being Drawn into Terrorism Under the CONTEST (Counter Terrorism Strategy) | ||
| PRF | Patient Report Form | ||
| PRG | Patient Reference Group | ||
| PRH | Princess Royal Hospital | ||
| PRISM | Primary Service for Mental Health | ||
| PRN | “Pro Re Nata” (Medication) To Be Taken as Needed | ||
| PRO | Patient Reported Outcome | ||
| PROM | Patient Reported Outcome Measure | ||
| PROMISE | Proactive Management of Integrated Services | ||
| PROMS | Patient Reported Outcome Measures | ||
| PRP | Policy Research Programme | ||
| PRS | Polygenic Risk Score | ||
| PRSB | Professional Record Standards Body | ||
| PS | Protected Services | ||
| PSA | Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care | ||
| PSA | Prostate Specific Antigen | ||
| PSA | Public Service Agreement | ||
| PSAS | Patient Self-Advocacy Scale | ||
| PSC | Patient Safety Collaborative | ||
| PSD | Patient Specific Direction | ||
| PSED | Public Sector Equality Duty | ||
| PSF | Provider Sustainability Fund | ||
| PSFH | Patient Facing Staff Hours | ||
| PSFU | Personalised Stratified Follow Up | ||
| PSG | Peninsular Sarcoma Group | ||
| PSIMS | Patient Safety Incident Management System | ||
| PSIRF | Patient Safety Incident Reporting | ||
| PSIS | Personal Spine Information Services | ||
| PSMU | Patient Safety Measurement Unit | ||
| PSNC | Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee | ||
| PSP | Patient Safety Partners | ||
| PSP | Priority Setting Partnerships | ||
| PSS | Personal Social Services | ||
| PSSG | Public Safety Strategies Group | ||
| PSSRU | Personal Social Services Research Unit | ||
| PSTRC | Patient Safety Translational Research Centre | ||
| PSW | Peer Support Worker | ||
| PSW | Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners | ||
| PT | Patient | ||
| PT | Physiotherapy | ||
| PT | Prothrombin Time | ||
| PTL | Patient Tracking List | ||
| PTL | Primary Targeting List | ||
| PTN | Pulmonary Hypertension | ||
| PTOM | Pre-tax Operating Margin | ||
| PTP | Procurement Transformation Programme | ||
| PTS | Patient Transport Service | ||
| PTS | Potential Years of Life Lost | ||
| PTSD | Post Traumatic Stress Disorder | ||
| PTT | Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time | ||
| PU | Passed Urine | ||
| PU | Professional Update | ||
| PUVA | Psoralen and Ultraviolet Therapy | ||
| PV | Pharmacovigilance | ||
| PVD | Peripheral Vascular Disease | ||
| PWP | Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner | ||
| PYLL | Potential Years of Life Lost |
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