Appendix I – Glossary of terms
A
- AANM – Advanced Network Monitors
- APMS – Alternative Provider Medical Services
- ATP – Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection
B
- BC – Business Continuity
- BCP – Business Continuity Plan
- BMA – British Medical Association
- BCMS – Business Continuity Management System
- BYOD – Bring Your Own Device
C
- CAS – Central Alerting System
- CAS-T – CESG Assured Service Requirement for Telecommunications
- CCG – Clinical Commissioning Group
- CE + – Cyber Essentials Plus
- CESG – UK National Technical Authority for Information Assurance now part of National Cyber Security Centre
- CIS – Care Identity Service
- CIS2 – NHS Care Identity Service 2. (formerly known as NHS Identity)
- CN-SP – Consumer Network Service Providers (of local HSCN services)
- COIN – Community of Interest Network
- CQRS -Calculating Quality Reporting Service
- CRM – Customer Relationship management
- CSP – Communication Service Providers
D
- DCB0129 – Clinical Risk Management: Its application in the manufacture of health software
- DCB0160 – Clinical Risk Management: Its application in the deployment and use of health IT systems
- DES – Directed Enhanced Service
- DFOCVC – Digital First Online Consultation and Video Consultation
- DPA – Data Protection Act
- DPCMAT – Digital Primary Care Maturity Assurance Tool
- DPIA – Data Privacy Impact Assessment
- DPO – Data Protection Officer
- DR – Disaster Recovery
- DSE – Display Screen Equipment
- DSPT – Data Security and Protection Toolkit
- DTAC – Digital Technology Assessment Criteria
E
- eDec – General Practice annual e-Declaration
- EPRR – Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response
- EPS – Electronic Prescription Service
- e-RS – NHS e-Referral Service
- ETTF – Estates and Technology Transformation Funds
G
- GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation
- GMS – General Medical Services
- GPC – General Practitioners Committee of the BMA
- GP FV – General Practice Forward View
- GP2GP – GP2GP Service
- GPES – General Practice Extraction Service
- GPSoC – GP Systems of Choice Framework
H
- HSCN-GP – Health and Social Care Network for General Practice
- HSSF – Health Systems Support Framework
I
- ICB – Integrated care board
- ICO – Information Commissioner’s Office
- ICS – Integrated care systems
- IFU – Instructions For Use
- IG – Information Governance
- ISMS – Information Security Management System
- ITIL – IT Infrastructure Library
- IVDR – In-Vitro Diagnostic medical device Regulations
M
- MDR – EU Medical Devices Regulations
- MESH – Message Exchange for Social and Health Care
- MHRA – Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
P
- P3M – Project, Programme and Portfolio Management
- PAT – Portable Appliance Testing
- PCN – Primary Care Network
- PDS – Personal Demographics Service
- PID – Submission Project Initiation Document Submission as required for capital funding bids
- PMS – Personal Medical Services
- PBAC – Position Based Access Control
- Prince II – PRojects IN Controlled Environments 2nd edition
- PSTN – Public Sector Telephone Network
R
- RA – Registration Authority
- RBAC – Role-based access control
- RCGP – Royal College of General Practitioners
- RPO – Recovery Point Objective
- RTO – Recovery Time Objective
S
- SAR – Subject Access Requests
- SCR – Summary Care Record
- SFI – Standing Financial Instructions
- SIRO – Senior Information Risk Owner
- SLA – Service Level Agreement
- SMS – Short Message Service
- STP – Sustainability and Transformation Plan
- STEIS – Strategic Executive Information System
V
- VDI – Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
- VoIP – Voice Over Internet Protocol
- VPN – Virtual Private Network
W
- WES – Warranted Environment Specification
- WiFi-GP – WiFi-GP access for practice staff and patients in general practice
- WTD – Working Time Directive
Guidance contents
- Foreword
- Executive summary
- Introduction
- The CCG practice agreement
- Requirements and capabilities
- Funding
- Commissioning, procurement and contract management
- Assurance
- Addressing the challenges
- Transition arrangements and timescales
- Appendix A – Schedule of GP digital requirements and capabilities
- Appendix B – Responsibilities and accountabilities
- Appendix C – Applicable national frameworks
- Appendix D – Digital primary care maturity assurance tool indicators
- Appendix E – Commissioning GP IT enabling services
- Appendix F – Commissioning advanced GP telephony services
- Appendix G – Procurement checklist
- Appendix H – General practice quick reference
- Appendix I – Glossary of terms