Do you know your ASW from your EMI? What do all those mental health terms mean? Find out here...
AMI Adult Mental Illness
AMHP(Approved Mental Health Professional)
New Role under the amended Mental Health Act from 3 November 2008. AMHP can be a social worker, psychologist, a first level nurse or an occupational therapist. They have the responsibility for assessing someone’s needs, care and treatment when a person is detained under the Mental Health Act (previously carried out by an Approved Social Worker (ASW)) but there are additional functions under Supervised Community Treatment.
AOF Annual Operating Framework AOFs replace Service and Financial Framework (SAFF). These are National Health Service targets which clarify priorities, and links resources to activity and quality.
AOT Assertive Outreach Team
Balanced Scorecard
This is a performance management tool for organisations or parts of organisations. It attempts to measure how well an organisation is doing in terms of both quality and quantity. The tool has 4 components:
For each component, the organisation sets targets against which they want to measure themselves.
Baseline Assessment
This is an assessment undertaken at the beginning of any project/service development, to provide a documented record from the beginning. It is then used as a plumb-line against to monitor and evaluate future progress.
BME Black and Minority Ethnic
BMA British Medical Association
CIP Carers in Partnership
CPA Care Programme Approach
The Care Programme Approach care plan is planned in partnership with people who use mental health services. It is a professional obligation to positively encourage mental health service users and their carers to participate in the assessment, development and review of their CPA care plan.
CSIW Care Standards Inspectorate Wales
The Care Standards Inspectorate Wales is the body responsible for inspecting and regulating social care services.
CAS Cards (Casualty) The CAS cards are the means of documentation in Accident and Emergency
CMHSD Centre for Mental Health Service Development
CAMHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
CaG Clinical Advisory Group
Clinical Advisory Groups support the development of clinical governance. There are three CaGs – adult mental health, learning disabilities and elderly mental illness.
CHC Community Health Councils
Community Health Councils are statutory bodies representing the interests of patients and the public in the National Health Service. Health authorities are required by law to consult their local Community Health Councils if they propose major changes in the pattern of services.
CMHT Community Mental Health Team
This is a multidisciplinary team, which includes psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, psychiatric nurses and therapists.
CPN Community Psychiatric Nurse
CaLM Complaints and Litigation Monitoring
C & D AMH & SCP Conwy and Denbighshire Adult Mental Health and Social Care
Commissioning - Commissioning involves specifying, securing and monitoring services that are evidence-based, cost effective, of high quality and meet individuals’ needs
Conwy MAP Conwy Management and Planning Group
This is a local services planning group.
CR/HT Crisis Resolution/Home Treatment Service
CTO Community Treatment Order
DtoCs Delayed Transfer of Cases
DELPHI A selected group of people who meet for a short time to get an opinion or something done
Direct Payments Transfer of money from a local authority to an individual to enable them to purchase and manage their own care.
DLA Disability Living Allowance
DRC Disability Rights Commission
EMI Elderly people with mental illness
EDD Estimated date of discharge
FACE Functional analysis of care environment
HADS Hospital anxiety depression scale
HCW Health Challenge Wales
HCW Health Commission Wales
This is part of National Health Service Wales. Its role is to commission specialist services for people who need them. Services may be in Wales or England.
They commission:
HIW Health Inspectorate Wales
HONOS Health of the Nation Outcome Scales
Assessment tool for access to services
H, SC & WB Strategy Health, Social Care and Well Being Strategy
Every Local Health Board and Local Authority has to have a strategy. This is to show that Local authorities, the voluntary sector etc are working together to improve the health, social care and well-being needs of the local population. The Strategy must take into account factors such as the environment, poverty, housing and education.
H,SC & WB LOG Health, Social Care and Well Being Strategy Lead Officers Group
Health, Social Care and Well-being Lead Officers Group ensures the integration and co-ordination of the Health and Well-being strategy, and manage the cross cutting support process and interface for joint working arrangements. The Lead Officers Group makes recommendations to the Strategic Partnership Board.
H, SC & WB SPB Health, Social Care and Well Being Strategic Partnership Board
This Board is responsible for overseeing development and implementation of the H, SC & WB
strategy.
HM Human Resources
LA Local Authority
There are 22 Local Authorities in Wales. Local Authorities are responsible for providing local social services, which sometimes overlap with health services.
LD Learning Disabilities
LHB Local Health Board
There are 22 Local health Boards in Wales, each covering exactly the same area as its associated Local Authority. This allows closer working between Local Health Boards and Local Authorities. The prime function of the LHB is to implement strategies that will improve the health of the local population.
PG Public Guardian
AD Advance Decisions
LPA Lasting Power of Attorney
IMCA Independent mental Capacity Advocate
MDT Multi Disciplinary Team e.g social workers, community psychiatric nurses etc
MAPPA Multi agency public protection arrangements
MHA Mental Health Act
MHAC Mental Health Act Commission
MHAW Mental Health Action Wales
This is a national network of local mental health voluntary sector networks.
MHB Mental Health Bill
MHIT Mental Health Implementation Team
This Team produces a baseline assessment of mental health services and against which future progress is assessed.
MHRT for Wales Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales
NCVA National Council for Voluntary Action
NICE National Institute of Clinical Excellence
The National Institute of Clinical Excellence was established to produce clear national guidance, as a part of the process for improving the quality of healthcare across England and Wales.
NIMHE National Institute of Mental Health in England
National Leadership and Innovation Agency for Health Care (Originally Innovations in Care)
This Agency’s role is to develop systems to give timely effective care services.
NR Nearest Relative
NSF Adult Mental Health National Service Framework for Wales
This framework sets out standards and outcomes and is a template against which mental health services are assessed and monitored. There are 8 standards and 44 key actions each setting out the timescale and identifying the organisation responsible for implementation.
OT Occupational Therapy
OPS Older people’s service
OBC Outline Business Plan
OOH Out of hours
PALS Patient Advice and Liaison Service
The Service provides an informal way of dealing with problems before they reach the complaint stage.
PANS Positive and negative symptom scale
POVA Protection of Vulnerable Adults
PPI Patient and Public Involvement
PDSA Plan, Do, Study Act: a model for testing ideas that might need improvement.
PCT Primary Care Team
This is a multi disciplinary team made up of doctors, practice nurses, health visitors etc.
PICU Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit
PSI Psychological Interventions
QA Quality Assurance
RAM Risk assessment Matrix
RC
(Responsible Clinician)
Under the amendments to the Mental Health Act the Responsible Medical Officer (RMO) has been changed to Responsible Clinician. The RC has ‘overall’ responsibility for the patient’s care and can now be a registered medical practitioner, a chartered psychologist, a first level nurse, an occupational therapist or a social worker.
RMN Registered Mental Nurse
R & R Rehabilitation and Recovery
RMOs Responsible Medical Officers
SCCGs Secondary Care Commissioning Groups
These groups are not statutory bodies. The Secondary Care Commissioning Groups have been formed to co-ordinate the commissioning of secondary care services (eg hospitals) for the local population.
A Secondary Care Commissioning Group’s core membership comprises of the Local Health Board, Local Authority and National Health Service Trusts – in different combinations around Wales. Secondary Care Commissioning Groups are generic dealing with all secondary health services.
Secondary Care Commissioning Groups have to ensure that the local voluntary/independent sector are involved in discussion of secondary care provision. Secondary Care Commissioning should include clinicians.
If a Secondary Care Commissioning Group fails or becomes dysfunctional, the Regional Office has a role in arbitration, conflict resolution and ensuring the establishment of effective working relations. If these approaches fail, then the Director of National health Service Wales will call in the respective Chief Executives to reach agreement.
SaFF Service and Financial Framework
This is a National Health Service document which clarifies priorities, and links resources to activity and quality. It is negotiated between Local Health Boards and Trusts, and the final Service and Financial Framework is an aggregation of these. The Service and Financial Framework has to be signed off by the Regional Director, who then prepares Individual Performance Agreements for each Local Health Board and Trust in the region, which reflects their part in delivering the Service and Financial Framework.
The Service and Financial Framework for 2004/05 has 40 targets, 3 of which are mental health – a) introduction of the Care Programme Approach b) User and carer involvement c) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service target.
SCEP Service Change and Efficiency Plan
This is a plan to reduce expenditure over 3 years within health in order for National Health Service Wales to balance its books. The Strategic Change and Efficiency Programmes are the responsibility of Local Health Boards.
SCT Supervised Community Treatment
SLA Service Level Agreement This stipulates the different aims and objectives that agencies have with the Local Health Board.
SALT Speech and language Therapy
SUC’s Service User Council
SCIE Social Care Institute for Excellence
SSIW Social Services Inspectorate Wales
The SSIW is responsible for regulating and assessing to improve the quality of services.
SOC Strategic Outline Case
SOP Strategic Outline Plan
SPB Strategic Partnership Board
TCC Together Creating Communities
US User Network
WAG Welsh Assembly Government
WDA Welsh Development Agency