Name
|
Acronym
|
Description
|
| Care Manager |
|
A trained professional, often a social worker, who co-ordinates and arranges funding for care and support services for people |
| Care Quality Commission |
CQC |
A UK-wide body that checks on the standard of services in the NHS and other care settings. It can enforce penalties if necessary |
| Clinical Commissioning Group |
CCG |
A new type of local NHS commissioning body that will exist from 2013 and replace Primary Care Trusts |
| Citizen's Advice Bureau |
CAB |
A local organisation, affiliated to a national charity, which provides a range of advice services to members of the public |
| Commissioners |
|
People who make decisions on what services to fund. Also used to refer to the departments or organisations (e.g. the local council) they work in |
| Continuing Care |
|
NHS care carried out on a long-term basis. It is provided free of charge |
| Criminal Records Bureau |
CRB |
A government agency that traces records of past offences, to help give assurance that those in caring/support roles do not have a record of harming vulnerable people |
| Dilnot Report |
|
Report from a commission led by Andrew Dilnot. It made recommendations in 2011 about future funding for care |
| Domiciliary Care |
|
Care provided in a person’s own home. Also called homecare |
| Foundation Trust |
|
NHS trust that has more freedom in spending its money than an ordinary Provider Trust |
| General Practitioner |
GP |
Family Doctor |
| General Practice Commissioning Consortium |
GPCC |
A proposed type of commissioning body, now replaced by Clinical Commissioning Groups (see above) |
| Health and Wellbeing Board |
HWBB |
A new type of board that will bring together the local NHS, local councils and others including LINk /HealthWatch. The idea is to make commissioning more joined-up |
| HealthWatch |
|
A new watchdog body which will replace the LINk during 2012 |
| Help and Care |
H&C |
An organisation that provides a team of paid staff to support the Isle of Wight LINk |
| Information Technology |
IT |
Computers |
| Isle of Wight Council |
IWC |
The Island’s unitary authority |
| Isle of Wight Rural Community Council |
RCC |
An organisation that speaks up for Voluntary Sector groups, and helps them run properly |
| Joint Strategic Needs Assessment |
JSNA |
A series of facts and figures which show the health and social needs of people in local areas |
| Local Involvement Network |
LINk |
A body that exists in each local area of England, made up of residents, that keeps track of health and social care services and has powers to ask for information and to visit care settings |
| Primary Care Trust |
PCT |
NHS organisation that commissions services for local people |
| Provider Arm |
|
Part of the Island Primary Care Trust that provides services rather than commissioning them |
| Provider Trust |
|
NHS organisation that runs hospitals, community health services, ambulance service etc. (on the IW this is role is currently included as part of the PCT, see “provider arm”) |
| SHIP Cluster |
|
Organisations in Southampton, Hampshire the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth working together |
| Signposting |
|
Telling people about services that can help them |
| Social Enterprise |
|
A business set up to achieve a social or environmental purpose and that puts its profits back into achieving that purpose |
| Unitary Authority |
|
A local council that combines services provided separately in some parts of England by District and County Councils |
| User-led Organisation |
ULO |
Organisation with service users on its governing group. Often set up to guide people in managing their care, especially those with Direct Payments. The Island’s ULO is called People Matter I.W. |