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Adult Social Care Glossary, v 0.6

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Approved clinician

Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Activities of daily living

Advance decision to refuse treatment

Asymmetric digital subscriber line

Artificial intelligence

Assisted living technology

Approved mental health professional

Assertive outreach team

Application programming interface

Any qualified provider

Alarm receiving centre

Adult social care

Adult social care client level data

Adult social care financial return

Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework

Assistive technology

Analogue terminal adaptor

Benefits Agency

British Approvals for Fire Equipment

Better Care Fund

Best interests assessor

Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia

British Sign Language

Bring your own device

Blind carbon copy

Citizens Advice

Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services

Council with Adult Social Services Responsibility

Cognitive behavioural therapy

Clinical Commissioning Group

Care, education and treatment review

Continuing health care

Community interest company

Centre for Independent Living

Client level data

Common law duty of confidentiality

Community learning disability team

Correctional Mental Health Screen for men or women

Community mental health team

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Care Programme Approach

Confidential patient information

Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation

Central processing unit

Care Quality Commission

Commissioning for Quality & Innovation

Clinical safety officer

Court of Protection

Discharge to assess

Disclosure & Barring Service

Digital European Cordless Telecommunications

Direct enhanced service

Disabled Facilities Grant

Department of Health and Social Care

Daily living costs

Device management platform

DNACPR; DNAR; DNR

Do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Data Protection Act 2018

Deferred payment agreement

Data protection impact assessment

Data protection officer

Direct Payment Support Service

Disaster recovery

Disability-related expenses

Data sharing agreement

Digital technology assessment criteria

Dual tone multi frequency

Delayed transfer of care

Department of Work and Pensions

Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

Experts by experience

European Economic Area

Education, Health & Care Plan

Electronic medical record

Expert Patients Programme

Electronic Prescription Service

Electronic Palliative Care Coordinating System

Electronic medication administration record

Five year forward view

Frequently asked questions

Fixed cellular terminal

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

File transfer protocol

Fibre to the cabinet

Fibre to the premises

General Data Protection Regulation

Gross motor function classification system

General practitioner

Global system for mobile communications

Graphical user interface

Health and Care Professions Council

Host media processing

Health and Social Care Network

Housing services portal

Hypertext markup language

Instrumental activities of daily living

Improving access to psychological therapies

Integrated Care Board

Information Commissioner's Office

Integrated Care System

Independent domestic violence adviser

Information governance

Instant messaging

Independent mental capacity advocate

Indices of multiple deprivation

Independent mental health advocate

Internet protocol

Independent personal budget

Integrated service digital network

Individual Service Fund

Internet service provider

Information technology

Independent user trust

Interactive voice response

Internet of Things

Joint Photographic Experts Group

Key lines of enquiry

Local authority

Local area network

Lower capital limit

Light emitting diode

Local health and care record exemplar

Leave outside the rules

Lasting power of attorney

Learning disabilities mortality review programme

Multi-agency discharge event

Metro area network

Multi-agency public protection arrangements

Multi-agency risk assessment conference

Multi-agency safeguarding hub

Mental Capacity Act 2005

Multi-disciplinary team

Making Every Adult Matter

Message Exchange for Social Care and Health

Mental Health Act 1983

Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority

Minimum Operational Dataset

Market position statement

Making safeguarding personal

Minimum viable product

National Data Guardian

National Early Warning Score

Next generation network

NHS continuing healthcare assessment

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

National Patient Safety Agency

No recourse to public funds

Needs and safety assessment

Offender Assessment System

Organisation Data Service

Office of Communications

Office of the Public Guardian

Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps

Optical termination unit

Personal assistant

Preventative action

Private automatic branch exchange

Patient Advocacy and Liaison Service

Patient Administration System

Personal budget

Portable document format

Personal Demographics Service

Person-held record

Personal health record

Project initiation document

Personal identification number

Personal independence payment

Passive infra-red

Project management office

Piper Network Controller

Plain old telephone service

Personal protective equipment

Patient reported outcome measure

Public sector equality duty

Public switched telephone network

Power supply unit

Power of attorney

Quality assurance

Quality Assurance Framework

Quality and Outcomes Framework

Red Amber Green

Risk, Action, Issue, Decision log

Random access memory

Resource allocation system

Remote audio terminal

Role-based access control

Responsible clinician

Radio equipment directive

Radio frequency identification device

Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment

Record of processing activity

Safeguarding Adults Board

Short and long term data return

Stabilise and make safe

Standard assessment procedure

Safeguarding Adults Review

Subject access request

Social care alarm Internet Protocol

System control panel

Summary care record

Self-directed support

Subscriber identity module

Session initiation protocol

Service level agreement

Service manager

Short message system

Single Order Generic Ethernet Access

Single shared assessment

Support and safety plan

Short term support to maximise independence

Single tone multi frequency

Speech-to-text reporter

Software as a Service

Shared care record

Two-factor authentication

Team around the child

Technology enabled care

Telephone interface card

Think Local Act Personal

Temporary permission to stay

TEC Services Association

Tunstall Service Platform

Universal acceptor communicator

User acceptance testing

Upper capital limit

UK Immigration and Visas

User-led organisation

Unique pupil number

Unique property reference number

Uniform resource locator

Universal serial bus

Voice band data

Virtual machine

Voice activated switch

Virtual private network

Voice over Internet Protocol

Wide area network

Wholesale Line Rental

Wireless nurse call system

Wellness recovery action plan

Extensible markup language

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