A TB Action Plan For Scotland: ANNUAL REPORT / 2013
This is the first Annual Report of the TB Action Plan for Scotland.
ABBREVIATIONS
| AA |
Ayrshire and Arran |
| AADP |
Alcohol and Drug Partnership |
| AAFB |
Acid and Alcohol Fast Bacilli |
| APMG |
Action Plan Monitoring Group |
| BBV |
Blood Borne Virus |
| BCG |
Bacillus Calmette-Guerin |
| BME |
Black and Minority Ethnic |
| BOR |
Borders |
| CCHS |
Community Child Health System |
| CSF |
Cerebrospinal Fluid |
| CHSP |
Child Health Systems Programme |
| CPA |
Clinical Pathology Accreditation |
| CPD |
Continuing Professional Development |
| CPHM |
Consultant in Public Health Medicine |
| CXR |
Chest X-Ray |
| DG |
Dumfries and Galloway |
| DGRI |
Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary |
| ECDC |
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control |
| EEA |
European Economic Area |
| EQA |
External Quality Assurance |
| ERLN-TB |
European Reference Laboratory Network for TB |
| ESMI |
Enhanced Surveillance of Mycobacterial Infections |
| ETS |
Enhanced Tuberculosis Surveillance |
| EU |
European Union |
| FV |
Forth Valley |
| GC |
Greater Glasgow and Clyde |
| GP |
General Practitioner |
| GRA |
Grampian |
| HCW |
Health Care Workers |
| Hi |
Highland |
| HIV |
Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
| HPN |
Health Protection Network |
| HPS |
Health Protection Scotland |
| HV |
Health Visitor |
| HPT |
Health Protection Team |
| IGRA |
Interferon Gamma Release Assays |
| KPI |
Key Performance Indicator |
| LAN |
Lanarkshire |
| LOT |
Lothian |
| LTBI |
Latent TB Infection |
| MDR |
Multi-Drug Resistant |
| MDT |
Multi-Disciplinary Team |
| MIRU |
Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units |
| MOU |
Memorandum of Understanding |
| NIDDM |
Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus |
| ONS |
Office for National Statistics |
| OOH |
Out of Hours |
| ORK |
Orkney |
| OTH |
Other |
| PAC |
Privacy Advisory Committee |
| PCR |
Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| PH |
Public Health |
| PMG |
Portfolio Management Group |
| RCGP |
Royal College of General Practitioners |
| SCI |
Scottish Care Information |
| SG |
Scottish Government |
| SHE |
Shetland |
| SIRS |
Scottish Immunisation and Recall System |
| SMART |
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timed |
| SMF |
Scottish Microbiology Forum |
| SMVN |
Scottish Microbiology and Virology Network |
| SMRL |
Scottish Mycobacteria Reference Laboratory |
| SHPIMS |
Scottish Health Protection Information Management System |
| TAY |
Tayside |
| TB |
Tuberculosis |
| UN |
United Nations |
| WHO |
World Health Organization |
| WI |
Western Isles |
| XDR |
Extensively Drug Resistant |
Contact
Email: Janet Sneddon
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