The following are common acronyms and terms used on Lancashire Insight webpages.
| Acronym / term | Defintion / explanation |
|---|---|
| AAF | Alcohol-attributable fractions |
| AF | Atrial fibrillation |
| AIDS | Acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
| APS | Annual Population Survey |
| APS | Active People Survey |
| ASB | Anti-social behaviour |
| CAMHS | Child and adolescent mental health services |
| CCG | Clinical commissioning group |
| CHD | Coronary heart disease |
| ChiMat | National Child and Maternal Health Intelligence Network |
| CKD | Chronic kidney disease |
| CLA | Children looked after - children and young people under the age of 18 who are either accommodated by the local authority or are subject to a care order |
| CMHT | Community mental health team |
| Confidence interval | A confidence interval is a range of values that is used to quantify the imprecision in the estimate of a particular indicator. Specifically it quantifies the imprecision that results from random variation in the measurement of the indicator. A wider confidence interval shows that the indicator value presented is likely to be a less precise estimate of the true underlying value. |
| COPD | Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease |
| County Council | County council - covers a whole county and provides the majority of services in the area, including children's services, adult social care and highways for example |
| CQC | Care Quality Commission |
| Crude rate | Crude rates are calculated using a simple formula in which the number of cases is divided by the corresponding population and multiplied by an appropriate value e.g. 100,000 |
| CSE | Child sexual exploitation |
| CSU | Commissioning support unit |
| CVD | Cardiovascular disease |
| CYP | Children and young people |
| DDA | Disability Discrimination Act 2005 |
| DFLE | Disability-free life expectancy: an estimate of total lifetime free from a limiting persistent illness or disability |
| DfT | Department for Transport |
| DH/DoH | Department of Health |
| District council | Provides more local services than a county council, such as housing, waste and leisure. Can be called district, borough or city councils |
| DLA | Disability living allowance |
| DPH | Director of public health |
| DSR | Directly standardised rate - expressed as an indicator in terms of the overall rate that would occur in a standard population age-structure if it experienced the age-specific rates of the observed population. Usually shown as a per 100,000 rate |
| EL CCG | East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group |
| Electoral wards | Electoral areas represented by one or more local government councillors |
| EOL | End of life |
| Ethnic group | A perceived ethnic group and cultural background |
| F&W CCG | Fylde & Wyre Clinical Commissioning Group |
| FE | Further education |
| Fertility rate | Crude birth rate: number of live births per 1,000 of population |
| Full-time working | Defined as working 31 hours or more per week and includeds paid and unpaid overtime |
| GCSE | General certificate of secondary education |
| GFR | General fertility rate: number of live births per 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44 years |
| GHS | General Household Survey |
| GP | General practitioner |
| GUM | Genitourinary medicine |
| HEA | Health equity audit - a review procedure, which examines how health determinants, access to relevant health services, and related outcomes are distributed across the population, relative to need |
| HealthWatch | A patient and public engament body, supported by HealthWatch England |
| HIA | Health impact assessment |
| HIV | Human immunodeficiency virus |
| HLE | Healthy life expectancy - an estimate of lifetime spent in 'very good' or 'good' health based on how an individual perceives their general health, taking account of the quality as well as the length of life |
| HNA | Health needs assessment - A systematic method for reviewing the health issues facing a population, leading to agreed priorities and resource allocation that will improve health and reduce inequalities |
| HRG | Healthcare resource group - standard groupings of clinically similar treatments which use common levels of healthcare resource |
| HWB | Health and wellbeing board |
| ICCT | Integrated community care team |
| ICD-10 | The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD-10) is a coding of diseases and signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or diseases, as classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) |
| ICD-10 block | ICD-10 blocks are essentially sub-chapter groupings of types of disease e.g. hypertensive diseases |
| ICD-10 chapter | ICD-10 chapters are groupings of disease by disease type e.g. diseases of the circulatory system |
| HIS | Integrated Household Survey |
| IMD | Index of multiple deprivation |
| Incidence | The extent or rate of occurrence, especially the number of new cases of a disease in a population over a period of time |
| JHWS | Joint health and wellbeing strategy - based on needs identified by the JSNA |
| JSA | Jobseeker's Allowance |
| JSNA | Joint strategic needs assessment - process and resources through which local authorities, the NHS, service users and the third sector research and agree a comprehensive local picture of health and wellbeing needs. |
| KPI | Key performance indicator |
| KS | Key stages are the four divisions in a pupil's education, as set out in the National Curriculum, namely KS 1 ages 5 to 7, KS 2 ages 8 to 11, KS 3 ages 12 to 14, and KS 4 ages 15 and 16. |
| LA | Local authority - a structure of local government |
| Lancashire-12 | The twelve districts in the Lancashire County Council area (excluding Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool) |
| Lancashire-14 | The twelve districts in the Lancashire County Council area and Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool |
| LAPE | Local Alcohol Profiles for England |
| LCC | Lancashire County Council |
| LCTPB | Lancashire Children's Trust Partnership Board |
| LD | Learning disability |
| LDAAT | Lancashire's Drug and Alcohol Action Team |
| LDD | Learning difficulties and disability |
| LGA | Local Government Association |
| LHE | Local health economy |
| LiL | Living in Lancashire - a panel of people who provide their views on a range of county council related subjects |
| LN CCG | Lancashire North Clinical Commissioning Group |
| LSC | Learning and Skills Council |
| LSCB | Lancashire's Safeguarding Children Board |
| LSOA | Lower layer super output areas - these have a minimum of 1,000 persons, with an average of 1,500 persons. |
| LTC | Long term condition: an illness which lasts longer than a year, often worsens with time, causes limitations to the patient's physical, mental and/or social well-being, and requires infrastructural and social support to allow sufferers to live independently, by providing transport, housing, employment, education, benefits and pensions |
| LTCP | Local Tobacco Control Profiles |
| MADE | Multi-Agency Data Exchange |
| Mean | The numerical average of a range of values |
| Median | A middle value of a range ordered from smallest to largest |
| Mode | The most frequently occuring value in a range |
| Mosaic | Mosaic public sector uses Experian's access to a wealth of information on UK individuals to help identify how citizens engage with the public sector, both on and offline, and to help citizens find our services. |
| MSM | Men who have sex with men |
| MSOA | Middle layer super output areas - these have a minimum of 5,000 persons with an average of 7,200 persons. |
| MYE | Mid-year population estimates. An annual series for the population as of 30 June each year |
| NCMP | National Child Measurement Programme |
| NDTMS | National Drug Treatment Monitoring System |
| NEET | Not in education, employment or training |
| NGPP | National General Practice Profiles |
| NHS | National Health Services |
| NICE | National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence |
| NOMIS | Official labour market statistics |
| NS-SEC | National statistics socio-economic classification - an indication of socio-economic postion based on occupation |
| NTS | National Travel Survey |
| NVQ | National Vocational Qualification |
| OA | Output area |
| Ofsted | Office for Standards in Education, responsible for the inspection of children's services, including schools |
| ONS | Office for National Statistics |
| OPCS-4 | OPCS Classification of Interventions and Procedures version 4 is the procedural classification used by clinical coders within National Health Service (NHS) hospitals of NHS England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales and Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland |
| PACT | Police and Communities Together |
| PAD | Peripheral arterial disease |
| PANSI | Projecting adult needs and service information |
| Part-time working | Part-time working is defined as working 30 hours or less per week, and includes paid and unpaid overtime |
| PbR | Payment by Results - reference resource designed to support SUS (secondary uses service) PbR users in SUS implementation of national tariff policy |
| PC | Palliative care |
| PCMD | Primary Care Mortality Database - holds mortality data as provided at the time of registration of the death along with additional GP details, geographical indexing and coroner details where applicable |
| PHE | Public Health England |
| PHOF | Public Health Outcomes Framework |
| PIP | Personal independence payment |
| POPPI | Projecting older people population information |
| Population density | Population density is the number of usual residents per hectare (10,000 square metres/2.47 acres) |
| Premature mortality | Deaths that occur before a person reaches an expected age (75). Many of these deaths are considered to be preventable |
| Prevalence | Measurement of all individuals affected by a specified disease at a particular point in time, often presented as percentage |
| PSHE | Personal, social, health and economic education |
| QOF | Quality and Outcomes Framework - the annual reward and incentive programme for GP practice achievement results |
| RA | Rheumatoid arthritis |
| Replacement level fertility | Replacement level fertility is the total fertility rate (the average number of children born per woman) at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next, without migration. This rate is roughly 2.1 children per woman for most countries |
| RNIB | Royal National Institute for the Blind |
| RTC | Road traffic collision |
| SEN | Special educational needs |
| SEND | Special educational needs and disabilities |
| SMR | Standardised mortality ratio or standard mortality rate |
| SPA | Service planning areas - 34 areas in the Lancashire-12 area |
| STIA | Stroke and transient ischaemic attack |
| STP | Sustainability and transformation plans |
| SUS | Secondary Uses Service - comprehensive repository for healthcare data in England which enables a range of reporting and analyses to support the NHS in the delivery of healthcare services |
| TFR | Total fertility rate - the average number of children that would be born per female if all females lived to the end of their childbearing years and bore children according to the age-specific fertility rates for that area and period |
| TIA | Transient ischaemic attack (a 'mini' stroke) |
| UC | Universal credit |
| Unitary authorities | One level of local government responsible for all local serices, for example Blackpool Council |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| WL CCG | West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group |
| YOT | Youth offending team |
| YPS | Young people's service |