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SACDA
Scottish Advisory Committee on Distinction Awards
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SAD
Supraglottic Airwary Device
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SAFA
Safeguarding Adults From Abuse
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SALT
Speech And Language Therapy
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SAM
Society for Acute Medicine
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SAR
subject access request
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SARS
severe acute respiratory syndrome
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SAS
Scottish Ambulance Service
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SAS
staff and associated specialist (doctors)
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SASM
Scottish Audit of Surgical Mortality
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SAU
surgical assessment unit
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SBAR
Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation
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SBS
(NHS) Shared Business Services
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SCAS
South Central Ambulance Service
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SCC
Squamous Cell Carcinoma
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SCC
strategic coordination centre
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SCCI
Stansardisation Committee for Care Information
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SCCL
supply chain coordination limited
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SCCR
single community care record
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SCG
specialised commissioning group
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SCG
strategic coordination group
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SCG
Strategic Coordination Group
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SCI
Scottish care information
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SCIE
Social Care Institute for Excellence
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SCN
strategic clinical network
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SCR
summary care record
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SCREW
safe, caring, responsive, effective, well-led
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SCS
senior civil servants
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SCVO
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations
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SDEC
Same Day Emergency Care
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SDF
Service Delivery Footprint
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SDIP
Service Development & Improvement Plan
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SDMA
Surgical Dressing Manufacturers Association
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SDO
service delivery and organisation
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SDU
(NHS) Sustainable Development Unit
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SDU
Sterilisation Disinfection Unit/ NHS Sustainable Development Unit
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SEIF
Social Enterprise Investment Fund
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SEN
special educational need
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SEND
Special Educational Needs & Disability (Children & Families Act 2014)
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SEQOHS
safe effective quality occupational health service
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SES
Single Equality Scheme (Department of Health)
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SFA
statement of fees and allowances
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SfC
Skills for Care
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SfH
Skills for Health
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SGHD
Scottish Government health directorates
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SHA
strategic health authority (and special health authority)
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SHMI
summary hospital mortality indicator
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SHMI
summary hospital-level mortality indicator
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SHO
senior house officer
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SHOW
Scottish Health on the Web
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SHREWD
Single Health Resilience Early Warning Database
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SHRINE
Strategic Human Resources Information Network
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SI
serious incident
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SID
senior independent director
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SIGN
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
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SIP
Strategic Improvement Program
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SIRI
serious incident requiring investigation
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SIRO
senior information risk owner
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SIRS
security incident reporting system
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SLA
service level agreement/ Scottish Lifesciences Association
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SLCS
Southern local clinical systems
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SLR
service-line reporting
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SLT
speech and language therapy
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SMAC
Standing Medical Advisory Committee
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SMC
Scottish Medicines Consortium
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SMDU
strategic market development unit (Department of Health)
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SME
small and medium enterprise
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SMR
standardised mortality ratio
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SNOD
specialist nurse for organ donation
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SNOMED
systematised nomenclature of medicine
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SOAR
Scottish online appraisal record/resource
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SOB
Shortness of Breath
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SOC
strategic outline case
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SoCF
statement of cash flows
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SODP
Senior Operating Department Practitioner
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SoFP
statement of financial position
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SOR
Society of Radiographers
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SPA
single point of access
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SPA
special programmed activity
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SPC
specialist palliative care
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SPC
statistical process control
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SPF
Social Partnership Forum
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SPG
Strategic Planning Group
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SPI
Scientific Pandemic Influenza Advisory Committee
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SPMS
specialist provider of medical services
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SPN
special patient notes
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SPOR
single point of referral
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SPSP
Scottish patient safety programme
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SRB
single regeneration budget
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SRG
system resilience group
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SRM
supplier relationship management
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SRO
senior responsible officer
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SRP
structural reform plan
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SSA
standard spending assessment
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SSC
shared service centre
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SSCIF
Specialised Services Commissioning Innovation Fund
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SSEM
short stay emergency tariff
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SSKIN
Surface Skin inspection, Keep moving, Incontinence/moisture, Nutrition
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SSRB
Senior Salaries Review Body
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ST&T
scientific, therapeutic and technical (staff)
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START
Specialist Triage, Assessment and Referral Team (Lancashire Care Foundation Trust Psychiatric Service)
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STF
Sustainability and Transformation Fund
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STP
sustainability and transformation partnership (formerly plan)
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SUDC
Sudden Unexpected Death in Childhood
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SUI
serious untoward incident
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SUS
secondary uses service
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SUSARS
suspected unexpected serious adverse reactions