Glossary

The documents we draw upon in the JSNA often contain medical jargon, acronyms and other unusual terms. This page lists the more common of those, along with a definition.

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Term Definition
A&E Accident and Emergency
AAACM All age all cause mortality
ACE Adverse Childhood Experience
Alcohol attributable
/related admissions or deaths
Cases (admissions or deaths) where the underlying cause was a condition thought to be directly or indirectly attributable to excessive alcohol consumption. This takes into account the fact that for many conditions excessive alcohol consumption is known to be a contributory factor to some, but not all, cases.
Alcohol specific admissions or deaths These cases (admissions or deaths) are a subset of all alcohol attributable / related cases, and cover cases relating to conditions such as acute alcohol poisoning or alcoholic liver disease or alcoholic cardiomyopathy, where excessive alcohol consumption is a contributory factor in all cases.
ASC Autism Spectrum Condition
ASD Autistic Spectrum Disorder
BMI Body mass index
CAMHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
CHD Coronary heart disease
CiC Child/Children in Care
CiN/CIN Child/Children in/with Need
Commissioning A continuous cycle of activities that contribute to the securing of services, including the specification of services to be delivered, contract negotiations, target setting, monitoring and managing performance.
Confidence Interval (CI) A 95% confidence interval is a range within which the true population would fall for 95 per cent of the times the sample survey was repeated. It depends on the amount of variation in the underlying population and the sample size, and is a standard way of expressing the statistical accuracy of a survey-based estimate.
COPD Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
CPP Child Protection Plan
CVD Cardio-vascular disease
CVS Councils for Voluntary Services
CSEW Crime Survey for England and Wales
DALY Disability adjusted life years
DfE Department for Education
DHSC Department of Health and Social Care
DPH Director of Public Health
DSR Directly Standardised Rate

A rate that is calculated by applying the age specific rates of each age group to a standard population structure, in most cases the European population. This produces age standardised rates that the population would have if the age distribution were the same as the standard population. This method allows for comparison between areas which have different age structures

Dual Diagnosis People with substance misuse and psychiatric problems.
DWP Department of Work and Pensions
eFI Electronic Frailty Index
EHC Emergency hormone contraception
EHCP Education Health and Care Plan
Elective admission A planned admission
Emergency admission An unplanned admission
EYFSP Early Years Foundation Stage Profile
FASD Feotal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
FTE First-Time Entrant
GP General Practitioner
HI Hearing impairment
HNA Health needs assessment
HWB Health and Wellbeing Board
ICB/ICS Integrated Care Board/Integrated Care System
Sub-ICB/ICS Sub-Integrated Care Board/Integrated Care System
ICPC Initial Child Protection Conference
IDACI Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index
IFD Integrated Front Door
IHD Ischaemic heart disease
IMD Index of Multiple Deprivation – Combines a range of indicators into a single deprivation score, including social and economic measures and a measure for “Health Deprivation and Disability”. These measures may be used individually, or can be combined to rank areas relative to each other so that comparisons can be made.
Incidence The rate at which new cases of a disease occur.
JSNA Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
Key Stage Educational assessment stage
L&D Liaison and Diversion
LA Local authority
LD Learning difficulties
LGBT/LGBTQ+ Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender/Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender/lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, questioning and ace
LLTI Limiting long-term illness
LSOA, SOA Lower level super output area – a new geographic hierarchy designed to improve the reporting of small area statistics
LTS Long Term Support
MLD Moderate Learning difficulty
Morbidity A diseased state, disability, or poor health due to any cause
Mortality The condition of being mortal, or susceptible to death
MRSA Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus
MSI Multi-sensory impairment
MSK Musculoskeletal
MSOA Middle level super output area – a new geographic hierarchy designed to improve the reporting of small area statistics
MYTT Mid-Yorkshire Teaching Trust
NCMP National Child Measurement Programme
NDTMS National Drug Treatment Monitoring System
NEET Young people not in education, employment and training
Net migration Inward migration minus outward migration
NHS National Health Service
NICE National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Obese Body mass index of over 30
OHID Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
ONS Office for National Statistics
Overweight Body mass index 25-30
PANSI Projecting Adult Needs and Service Information
PCN Primary Care Network
PD Physical disability
PMLD Profound and Multiple Learning difficulty
PNA Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment
POPPI Projecting Older People Population Information
Prevalence The proportion of a population who have a disease.
QOF Quality Outcomes Framework (indicator)
RAD Royal Association for Deaf People
RNID Royal National Institute for Deaf People
SEMH Social, Emotional and Mental Health
SEN/SEND Special educational needs/Special educational needs and disabilities
SENDIASS Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information Advice and Support Services
SLCN Speech, language and communication need
SLD Severe Learning difficulty
SpLD Specific Learning difficulty
SWYPFT South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
TB Tuberculosis
VCS/VCSE Voluntary and community sector/Voluntary, community and social enterprises
VI Vision impairment
Vital Statistics Office for National Statistics publication of statistics relating to births and deaths.
Ward Electoral and administrative boundary.
WDDAS Wakefield District Domestic Abuse Service
WESAIL Wakefield Early Support, Advice, Information and Liaison
WHO World Health Organisation
WISENDSS Wakefield Inclusion Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Support Service
WYP West Yorkshire Police
YLD Years of healthy life lost to disability
YLL Years of life lost
YOS/YOT Youth Offending Service/Youth Offending Team

This table was adapted from NHS Wiltshire’s JSNA.