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Agenda for Change (AfC) is the current National Health Service (NHS) grading and pay system for NHS staff, with the exception of doctors, dentists, apprentices and some senior managers. It covers more than 1 million people and harmonises their pay scales and career progression arrangements across traditionally separate pay groups, in the most ...
The main discussion of these abbreviations in the context of drug prescriptions and other medical prescriptions is at List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions. Some of these abbreviations are best not used, as marked and explained here.
A locally-employed doctor (LED), also known as a trust doctor or trust-grade doctor, is a doctor who is working in the National Health Service (NHS) in a non-training post, usually at senior house officer level.
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
The idea of this system is "equal pay for work of equal value". There was a perceived discrepancy, under clinical grading, between ones grade (and therefore pay) and the work which one actually did, which Agenda for Change aimed to fix. Most NHS staff are now on the AfC system which took quite a long time to implement across the UK.
This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes).This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology § List of abbreviations for those).
Specialty Doctor is a contract for doctors working in hospitals in the UK NHS. The previous grades of Staff Grade and Associate Specialist were subsumed into this new grade when it was introduced in 2008. [1] The Specialty Doctor role requires four years postgraduate experience, two in specialty, although many Specialty Doctors now have more ...
Medical career grades of the National Health Service; Year Current (Modernising Medical Careers) Previous 1 Foundation doctor (FY1 and FY2), 2 years Pre-registration house officer (PRHO), 1 year 2 Senior house officer (SHO), minimum 2 years; often more 3 Specialty registrar, general practice (GPST), minimum 3 years Specialty registrar,