Key Health Data for the West Midlands 2001
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
List
of Tables
List of
Figures
Abbreviations
| AA | Attendance Allowance | |
| A & E | Accident and Emergency Unit | |
| CABG | Coronary Artery Bypass Graft | |
| CDSC | Communicable Disease Surveillance Unit | |
| CIL | Confidence Interval Lower | |
| CIU | Confidence Interval Upper | |
| CHD | Coronary Heart Disease | |
| DETR | Department of Environment Transport and Regions | |
| DoH | Department of Health | |
| GMS | General Medical Services | |
| GP's | General Practitioners | |
| HA | Health Authority | |
| HES | Hospital Episode Statistics | |
| ICD9 | International Classification of Diseases - Version 9 | |
| ICD10 | International Classification of Diseases - Version 10 | |
| IS | Income Support | |
| IUGR | Intrauterine Growth Restriction | |
| LA | Local Authority | |
| MI | Myocardial Infarction | |
| NSF | National Service Framework | |
| OHN | Our Healthier Nation | |
| ONS | Office of National Statistics | |
| OPCS | Office of Population Censuses and Surveys | |
| PCG | Primary Care Group | |
| PCT | Primary Care Trust | |
| PTCA | Percuataneous Transluminal Coronary Arthroplasty | |
| RCGP | Royal College of General Practitioners | |
| SGA | Small for Gestation Age | |
| StHA | Strategic Health Authority | |
| WMLMWAG | West Midlands Local Medical Workforce Advisory Group |
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