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A-G

AMHP - Approved Mental Health Professional

AOB – Any other business

ASBO – Anti-Social Behaviour Order

ASW – Approved Social Worker

BBC – Bournemouth Borough Council

BEDP – Bournemouth, East Dorset and Poole

BVPI – Best Value Performance Indicator

CBT – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

CLARC – Community Learning and Resource Centre

CMHT – Community Mental Health Team

CPA – Care Programme Approach

CPN – Community Psychiatric Nurse

CRE – Commission for Racial Equality

CRS - Community Recovery Service

CSIP – Care Services Improvement Partnership

CVS – Council for Voluntary Services

DAT – Drug Action Team

DBT – Dialectical Behavioural Therapy

DHCT – Dorset Health Care Trust

DLA – Disability Living Allowance

DNA – Did not attend

DONM – Date of next meeting

DWP – Department for Work and Pensions

ECT – Electro Convulsive Therapy

EDDAAS – East Dorset Drug and Alcohol Service

EDMHCF – East Dorset Mental Health Carers’ Forum

EPP - Expert Patient Programme

EOC – Equal Opportunities Commission

FAO – For the attention of

FYI – For your information

H-Z

H and SC - Health and Social Care

HCA – Health Care Assistant

IAPT - Improving Access to Psycological Therapies

ICPA – Integrated Care Programme Approach

IMCA - Independent Mental Capacity Advocate

IPTS - Intensive Psycological Therapies Service

ISIP – Integrated Service Improvement Programme

LA – Local Authority

LDP – Local Development Plan

LGA – Local Government Association

LIT – Local Implementation Team

NIMHE – National Institute for Mental Health England

NSF – National Service Framework

OCD – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

OT – Occupational Therapist

PALS – Patient Advice and Liaison Service

PCT – Primary Care Trust

PD – Personality Disorder

PE – Plain English

PIG – Project Implementation Guide

PPI Forum – Patient and Public Involvement Forum

PPP – Personal Performance Plan

REC – Race Equality Council

RF – Richmond Fellowship

SAD – Seasonal Affective Disorder

SLA – Service Level Agreement

SMI – Severe Mental Illness

SS – Social Services

STR Worker – Support Time Recovery Worker

TNA – Training Needs Analysis

YOT – Youth Offending Team


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