Jargon and acronym busters

Within the NHS we often use words and phrases to describe our teams and procedures, which you may not be familiar to you. Additionally, mental health is a very wide subject area within health, wellbeing and medicine.

There are many different different diagnoses, medications and therapies which are specific to treating mental health conditions.

This jargon buster will help you to understand some of the terms we use in BSMHFT.

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