Cancer Action Plan: annual progress report 2024-2025

Appendix C: List of Acronyms

ADPs: Annual Delivery Plans

AHP: Allied Health Professions/Professionals

AI: Artificial Intelligence

ANIA: Accelerated National Innovation Adoption

CCE: Colon Capsule Endoscopy

CfSD: Centre for Sustainable Delivery

CMF: Cancer Managers’ Forum

CMOP-PHS: Cancer Medicines Outcomes Programme-Public health Scotland

CMP: Clinical Management Pathways

CPO: Chief Pharmaceutical Officer

CRUK: Cancer Research UK

CWT: Cancer Waiting Times

CXR: Chest X Rays

DALY: Disability Adjusted Life Year

DCE: Detect Cancer Early

DFD: Digital Front Door

ECMC: Experimental Cancer Medicine Centres

ED: Early Diagnosis

ERF: East Region Formulary

ESIG: Equity in Screening Implementation Group

FECM: Framework for Effective Cancer Management

HIS: Healthcare Improvement Scotland

HNA: Holistic Needs Assessment

HOPS: Heads of Psychology Services Scotland

HPB: hepatocellular Carcinoma and Pancreatic

HPV: Human Papillomavirus

HSAB: Horizon Scanning Advisory Board

ICBP: International Cancer Benchmarking Programme

IDA: Innovation Design Authority

IHAGP: Inclusion Health Action in General Practice

IMTO: Initial Medical Technology Overview

ISCHR: Integrated Social Care and Health Record

ICJ: Improving the Cancer Journey

IWWC: Improving Wellbeing and Working Cultures

I4i: Invention for Innovation

LIMS: Laboratory Information Management System

M&E: Monitoring and Evaluation

MUP: Minimum Unit Pricing

NCMAG: National Cancer Medicines Advisory Group

NCQSG: National Cancer Quality Steering Group

NES: National Education Scotland

NRS: National Records Scotland

NSD: National Services Division

NSO: National Screening Oversight

NSOB: National Screening Oversight Board

NTIG: National Theatre Implementation Group

OTP: Oncology Transformation Programme

PGfAR: Programme Grants for Applied Research

PHS: Public Health Scotland

PREMs: Patient Reported Experience Measures

PROMs: Patient Reported Outcome Measures

QPI: Quality Improvement Indicator

RAS: Robotic Assisted Surgery

RCDS: Rapid Cancer Diagnostic Services

RM: Realistic Medicine

RPSC: Research Programme for Social Care

RTDS: The National Radiotherapy Dataset

SACT: Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapies

SANON: Scottish Adult Neuro-Oncology

SBOD: Scottish Burden of Disease

SCN: Scottish Cancer Network

SCPES: Scottish Cancer Patient Experience Survey

SCR: Scottish Cancer Registry

SDM: Shared Decision Making

SEAG: Scottish Expert Advisory Group

SG-TAG: Scottish Genomics Test Advisory Groups

SHAAP: Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems

SHPBN: Scottish Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Network

SHTG: Scottish Health Technologies Group

SMC: Scottish Medicines Consortium

SPaN: Scottish Pathology Network

SPOC: Single point of contact

SSND: Scottish Strategic Network for Diagnostics

SSNGM: Scottish Strategic Network for Genomics Medicine

SSN: Scottish Sarcoma Network

STCN: Scottish Thyroid Cancer Network

STV: Scottish Television

TSE: Technical Specification and Evaluation subgroup

USC: Urgent suspicion of cancer

VBH&C: Value Based Health and Care