KMPT acronym buster

AHP

Allied health professional

AMHP

Approved mental health professional

Carer, family member

Anyone who looks after a family member, partner or friend who needs assistance because of their illness, frailty, disability, mental health problem or addiction and cannot cope without their support. The care they give is unpaid. 

CBT

Cognitive behavioural therapy

CMHT

Community mental health team

CPA

Care programme approach

CQC

Care Quality Commission

CRHT

Crisis resolution home treatment team

CROM

The Clinician Reported Outcomes Measure

DIALOG

Covers many areas of function including social care. Can be used by clinicians as an outcome measure.

DIALOG+

The Dialog+ feature in Rio to facilitate collaborative treatment planning. Dialog+ allows clinicians, patients and other relevant stakeholders to engage in a structured conversation to develop a personalised care plan.

DNA

Did not attend

ECAO

Eastern and Coastal Area Offices

EIA

Equality impact assessment

Engagement involvement

Staff involving service users, carers and volunteers in a meaningful way in the planning, delivery and governance of our services.

Engagement participant

Service users and carers involved in engagement activities under the Partnerships and Engagement service.

Engagement council

This is a group of nominated representatives from The Engagement Pool, wider community and staff who will provide the strategic level for engagement activities and leadership.

Engagement pool

Service users, volunteers, carers and their family members who have completed the Participation and Involvement Lived-expression of interest form and Voluntary Services application form and currently engage with us.

ERC

Elizabeth Reybould Centre

FFT

Friends and family test

FLU

Frank Lloyd Unit

FOI

Freedom of information

HCA

Healthcare assistant

HCP

Healthcare professional

HTT

Home Treatment Team - service responsible for home treatment element of crisis resolution.

ICB

Integrated Care Board

KCC

Kent County Council

KMMHCL

Kent and Medway Mental Health Crisis Line

KMPT

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

MDT

Multi disciplinary team

Mental Health Together

A new service being developed by Kent and Medway's Community Mental Health Transformation programme to support people with complex mental health needs.

MHA

Mental Health Act

MHLD

Mental Health and Learning Disability

MSE

Mental State Examination

NICE

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

OT

Occupational therapist

PALS

Patient advice and liaison service

Patient

A personal with a specific illness or condition who receives treatment for a Health Care Provider.

POD

Peer-supported open dialogue

PREM

Patient reported experience measure - a measure of patient experience as reported by the patient themselves.

PROM

Patient reported outcome measure - assesses the quality of care delivered to patients from the patient's perspective. Questionnaires that ask about their health and wellbeing. 

Primary care

Primary care includes general practice, community, pharmacy, dental, and optometry (eye health) services.

REQOL

The Recovering Quality of Life measure designed as a generic patient reported outcome measure; better for subjective symptoms, not including social care.

RIO

Rio Electronic Health Records

RRT

Rapid Response Team

S136

Section 136 (Mental Health Act) – police holding power

S2

Section 2 (Mental Health Act) – detained for up to 28 days

S3

Section 3 (Mental Health Act) – detained for up to six months

Secondary Care

The secondary care services commissioned by Clinical Commissioning Groups are: planned hospital care rehabilitative care, urgent and emergency care, most community health services, mental health services and learning disability services.

Service user

Someone who is receiving or using (or has received or used) primary or secondary mental health care services.

STP

Sustainable Transformation Partnership

STR

Support time and recovery worker

TGU

Trevor Gibbens Unit

TMHU

Thanet Mental Health Unit

TWPCEG

Trust Wide Patient and Carer Experience Group

Volunteer

An individual recruited following the KMPT Volunteer recruitment procedure to support delivery in our service; a person who chooses to freely commit their time and energy to support the work of the service; without receiving any financial benefit beyond reimbursement of expenses.

If you would like to see the full list of NHS acronyms and meanings, please visit the NHS England website