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Word document can be found here: HEE Transform Glossary.docx
TERM/WORD | MEANING |
AoMRC -Academy of Royal Medical Colleges | The body that speaks on standards of care and medical education across the UK |
ARCP - Annual Review of Competence Progression | Provides an assessment of a trainee's suitability to progress to their next stage of training or to complete their training program. The process is undertaken annually. |
Backlog | The list of everything that could be done by the project team if time was not a factor |
Blocker | Something that prevents one or more stories being completed. It is the job of the scrum master to help remove these blockers |
Burndown | A chart that shows the amount of effort or number of stories that are in the backlog and how they are being completed over time |
CCT - Certificate of Completion of Training | A CCT confirms that a doctor has completed an approved |
training program in the UK and is eligible for entry onto the GP Register or the Specialist Register. | |
Confluence | The web portal where we store all the project information that supports the backlog - linked to Jira |
Deanery | There were 13 deaneries across England, responsible for postgraduate medical training |
Digital Marketplace | The revised name of the G-Cloud store in which the public sector can commission suppliers to work on digital projects by the Digital Services Framework |
Discover | The first phase of a project approach (before alpha) |
Doctor's Revalidation | The process by which licensed doctors are required to demonstrate on a regular basis that they are up to date and fit to practice |
Empower | Name of service provision provided by Northgate to London LETB until 2015 |
Epic | The highest level of requirement in the backlog |
ePortfolio | An integral part of a trainee's education and professional development |
ESR - NHS electronic staff record | The HR and payroll database used across the NHS |
In house service | To produce a service or system internally rather than from an external source |
Integrated Assurance Approval | The planning, co-ordination and provision of assurance activities and approval points through the lifecycle of the trainee information management system |
Inter-deanery transfer | A process in place to help trainees that need to move area due to unforeseen circumstances |
Intrepid | Name of current provision provided across all LETBs provided by Hicom |
Jira | The web portal where we store the backlog, run the sprints and communicate on progress |
LETBs - Local education training boards | In 2013 the deaneries transferred across to Local Education Training Boards following the enactment of Health and Social Care |
Not directly commissioned | The term used to describe training posts that are not managed and where there is no direct relationship with HEE and are predominantly trust based; this may include undergraduate trainees, nursing and midwifery |
Royal College | A professional body responsible for development and training in one or more specialities |
Scrum Master | A member of the team who facilitates the activities so that the sprint can complete. Also monitors and reports on progress to the wider stakeholders |
SIAM - System Integration and Management | Allows an organisation to manage different service providers in a consistent and effective manner across a portfolio of multi-sourced goods |
Sprint | The short period of activity in which the committed team complete the tasks that they have agreed to complete |
Sprint Planning | The meeting at the start of each spring where all the committed team agree what tasks/stories should be brought into that sprint |
Standup | The daily meeting at which all committed team members update the team on their progress |
Story | The user story that describes a requirement in the form of a user e.g. as a user... I want to… so that I can…. |
Streamlining Staff Movements | A collaboration between NHS employers, skills for health and London HR and Workforce Directors which aims to reduce the time and expenditure involved in recruiting and training staff, as well as in the changeover of junior doctors |
Velocity | The term used to describe measuring the progress of a sprint |