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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