IMPRESS NHS JARGON BUSTER
NEW April 2010 - Third edition of the Jargon Buster now available in hard copy and here as pdf. Work is in progress to ensure the A-Z version is equally up-todate.
Online version: Jargon Buster A-Z
November 2009 There is short Social Care and Housing Jargon Buster now available from IMPRESS too, with thanks to the Long Term Conditions Delivery Support Team. All the terms are in the A-Z as well.
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IMPRESS NHS JARGON BUSTER
Introduction
The Jargon Buster (A-Z search function: click here) aims to provide a simple guide to the many new 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.
Go to A-Z Jargon Buster here