Glossary of terms used by Visitors and Migrants
Glossary of common terms and abbreviations used though-out the Visitors and Migrants documentation.
- DoH
- Department of Health
- DSA
- Demographic Spine Application
- EEA
- European Economic Area
- EHIC
- Electronic Health Insurance Card
- FHIR
- Fast Health Interoperability Resources
- HO
- Home Office
- IHS
- Immigration Health Surcharge
- JSON
- JavaScript Object Notation
- JWT
- JSON Web Token
- NHSD
- NHS Digital
- ODS
- Organisational Data Service
- OVM
- Overseas Visitors Manager
- PAS
- Patient Administration System
- PDS
- Personal Demographic Service
- SCRa
- Summary Care Record application
- SDS
- Spine Directory Service
- Spine
- Is a collection of national applications, services and directories which support the health and social care sector in the exchange of information in national and local IT systems
- XML
- eXtensible Markup Language