This glossary includes terms frequently used by both HEE and Transform. Words in grey are those that are used in Agile. All others are HEE/NHS/Revalidation words.
XLS can be found here: HEE Transform Glossary.xlsx
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 Comeptance Progression | Provides an assessment of a trainee's suitablity 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 (see the table below) training programme in the UK and is eligible for entry onto the GP Register or the Specialist Register. |
| Collective Reports | A list of trainees who have been in an organisation for the last six months - happens retrospectively and on a six month basis. |
| Confluence | The web portal where we store all the project information that supports the backlog - linked to Jira |
| COPMED - Conference of Postgraduate Medical Deans | Provides a focus for those responsible for the strategic overview and operational delivery of postgragraduate medical training in the four nations of the UK and by ensuring excellent training, is a key player in maintaining quality of care and patient safety |
| Deanerie | 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 |
| Discovery | The first phase of a project approach (before alpha) |
| Doctor's Revalidation | The process by which liscensed doctors are required to demonstrate on a regular basis that they are up to date and fit to practice |
| Employee Liason Officer | An advisor who visits the revalidation team on a quarterly basis to discuss incidents, revalidations etc. |
| 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 |
| Green Files | Files for doctors in difficulty. These are controlled by the professional support manager. |
| 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 activites 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 unforseen circumstances |
| Interpid | Name of current provision provided across all LETBs provided by Hicom |
| ISCP - Inter-collegiate Surgical Curriculum Program | The curriculum for 10 surgical specialities and a number of dental specialities |
| Jira | The web portal where we store the backlog, run the sprints and communicate on progress |
| LET - Lead Employer Trust | The LET carry out trainee investigations |
| LETBs - Local education training boards | In 2013 the deaneries transferred across to Local Education Training Boards following the enactment of Healtha and Social Care. The LETB is responsible for the training and education of NHS staff. Committees |
| Live Flow | A system that allows Local Education Partners to report in on an incident by incident basis to the revalidation officer and postgraduate dean. |
| National Deferal Policy | Info around when a doctor can or can't be deferred |
| Not directly commisioned | 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 |
| Revalidation Recommendation | A recommendation to revalidate - can be made up to four months ahead of revalidation |
| ROG - Revalidation Operational Group | The Revalidation Operational Group support the delivery of revalidation for doctors in training to meet the relevant statutory obligations and extra statutory guidance |
| 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 |
| SHA - Strategic Health Authority | An NHS organisation established to lead the strategic development of the local health service and manage Primary Care Trusts and NHS Trusts on the basis of local accountability agreements. |
| 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 |
| SPC - Specialty Program Co-ordinator | The individual that looks after the trainee in their specific locality. They are also involved in ARCPs and act as the trainee's administrator (they fill out ePortfolio etc.) |
| Specialty Teams | The team involved in the educational side of trainee doctors rather than the revalidation side |
| Sprint | The short period of activity in which the commited team complete the taskts that they have agreeed to complete |
| Sprint Planning | The meeting at the start of each spring where all the commited team agree what tasks/stories should be brought into that sprint |
| Standup | The daily meeting at which all commited team members update the team on their progress |
| Story | The user story that describes a requirment 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 |
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