| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| AFT | Advanced Foundation Trust |
| AHP | Allied health professionals (includes radiographers, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, dietitians etc) |
| AI | Artificial intelligence |
| Ambicare | Our ambulatory care service (a daycase option for treatment that used to require an inpatient stay) |
| BRC | Biomedical Research Centre (funded by the National Institute of Health Research |
| CAR-T / CAR T-cell | Chimeric antigen T-cell receptor therapy |
| CCC | The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre |
| CDC | Community diagnostic centre |
| CDU | Clinical Decisions Unit |
| CMCA | Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance |
| CMPC | Cheshire and Merseyside Provider Collaborative |
| ECMC | Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre |
| ED | Emergency department |
| EPR | Electronic patient record |
| ICB | Integrated Care Board for the NHS in an area |
| Linac | Linear accelerator (radiotherapy treatment machine) |
| MDT | Multidisciplinary team |
| SACT | Systemic anti-cancer therapies (includes chemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapies, etc) |
| SDEC | Same day emergency care |
| TIL | Tumour infiltrating lymphocyte therapy |
| TYA | Teenage and young adult |
| UEC | Urgent and emergency care |
