Police and Criminal evidence act

Patients Advice and Liaison Service

Professions Allied to Medicine

Patient Administration System

Primary Care Trust

Personality (Psychopathic) Disorder

Personal Development Plans

Patient Environment Assessment Team

Positron Electron Tomography (the Star Trek end of brain scanning)

Private Finance Initiative

Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit

Policy Implementation Guidance

Psychiatric Liaison Team

Protection of Vulnerable Adults

Patient and Public Involvement Forum

Public Private Partnership

Projects in Controlled Environments (project management tool)

pro re nata (Latin: "As the need arises")

Present State Examination

Person Training Day

Partnership Time Event

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Person Under a Disability (legal term)

Quality Adjusted Life Year

Quality Service Nurse

Root Cause Analysis

Royal College of Nursing

Royal College of Psychiatry

Randomised Controlled Trial

"Race" Equality Scheme

Registered General Nurse

Registered Mental Nurse

Responsible Medical Officer

Risk Pooling Scheme for Trusts

Regional Secure Unit

Seasonal Affective Disorder

South Bank University

Social Care & Health

Special Care Unit

South East London (Strategic) Health Authority

South East London Workforce Development Confederation

Severe and Enduring Mental Illness (not very PC)

Senior House Officer

Serious Incident Evaluation

Share in Maudsley Black Action

Service Level Agreement

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust

Senior Managers Group

Severely Mentally Ill/Severe Mental Illness

Scottish National Vocational Qualification

Second Opinion Appointed Doctor

Statistical Process Control

Saturated oxygen level

Service Planning and Performance Development [Group]

Specialist Registrar

Social Services Department

Social service Inspectorate

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (a class of antidepressants)

Strategic Health Authority

Serious Untoward Incident (or Service User Involvement)

Service Users in Training and Education

Service User Research Enterprise (at the IoP)

Tardive Dyskenesia (Latin: Late onset movement disorder)

ter die sumendus (Latin: three times a day)

Trust Headquarters

Team Leader

Time Off In Lieu (of overtime)

Temperature, Pulse, Respiration

Total Quality Management

To Take Out (refers to medication)

University Hospital Lewisham

United Kingdom Central Council [for Nursing and Midwifery] - predecessor to the NMC

UK Psychiatric Pharmacy Group

Workforce Development Confederation

World Health Organisation

Ward Manager

Wickham Park House

Warlingham Park Hospital - now closed

Working Time Directive (also appears as EWD)

whole time equivalent