IMPRESS NHS JARGON BUSTER  - SCROLL DOWN TO A-Z SEARCH

Third edition of the Jargon Buster  available in hard copy and here as pdf (April 2010)  Does not take account of post-election changes. The online version is updated periodically to take account of these.

There is short Social Care and Housing Jargon Buster  available from IMPRESS too, with thanks to the Long Term Conditions Delivery Support Team.    All the terms are in the A-Z as well.

 Please note that a number of the DH websites, including NHS Evidence, were reviewed post-Election May 2010, and so some links may not work.  If this is the case, please contact us to let us know and we'll correct quickly.

IMPRESS NHS JARGON BUSTER

Introduction

The Jargon Buster A-Z (see below) aims to provide a simple guide to the many  terms in the NHS in England that describe how healthcare and social care will be planned, measured and paid for.  Some of the terms also apply to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.   They highlight the relevance for delivering respiratory care.

We would also highly recommend the Junior Doctors Guide to the NHS.  This is a very helpful guide for all who work in the NHS.    As a guide for junior doctors, we would hope that future editions might also include something on the  building blocks of coding, financial flows and casemix complexity because it is often the junior doctors who take on the responsibility of setting the coding standard from day one of discharge and this is a key responsibility, since it is this coding activity that drives planning.  However, IMPRESS can highly recommend the commentary in our guide to Respiratory Coding to fill this gap.

Before starting the alphabetical glossary you may find it helpful to look at Figure 1 that describes how the various policies contribute to the three main policy aims to:

•    improve patient care, and particularly to reduce inequalities in access to care,
•    improve the patient’s experience of services
•    achieve better value for money. 

Whilst this figure is updated in new Conservative policy, the basic direction remains the same.

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