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Adult Social Care Glossary, v 0.6

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Proxies, representatives and advocates

PRSB Personalised Care and Support Planning Standard

Package of care

Palliative care

Parent Carer Forum

Parental responsibility

Parenteral nutrition

Parenting support

Participating organisation

Passive infra-red

Patient Administration System

Patient Advocacy and Liaison Service

Patient activation

Patient reported outcome measure

Patient safety incident

Penetration testing

People who are important to me

People's experiences

Performance indicators

Performance rating

Performing professional

Permission to view

Person experiencing homelessness

Person growing older with learning disabilities

Person identifier

Person property and equipment

Person receiving care and support

Person who draws on social care

Person who experiences domestic violence and abuse

Person who uses services

Person with care and support needs

Person-centred approach

Person-centred care

Person-held record

Personal Demographics Service

Personal assistant

Personal budget

Personal contact

Personal data breach

Personal expenses allowance

Personal finance

Personal health budget

Personal health budget peer network

Personal health record

Personal identification

Personal identification number

Personal independence payment

Personal protective equipment

Personal safety

Personalisation

Personalised care

Personalised medicine

Personality disorders

Pharmacy and prescriptions

Physical access control

Physical health issue

Physical inactivity

Physical intervention

Physical support: Access & mobility only

Physical support: Personal care support

Physical therapy

Piper Network Controller

Place-based commissioning

Placed in temporary accommodation by the council (including homelessness resettlement)

Plain old telephone service

Planned entry (transition)

Planned units per week

Please do and please don't

Population health management

Portable document format

Positive behaviour support

Positive risk-taking

Postnatal period

Postpartum psychosis

Power of attorney

Power supply unit

Practicable steps

Practitioner psychologist

Pre-admission consultation

Pre-amputation rehabilitation assessment and consultation

Predictive analytics

Predictive care

Preferred contact method

Preferred place of care

Preferred place of death

Pregancy and maternity

Premature mortality

Prepayment card

Prescribing risperidone and haloperidol

Preventative action

Preventive services

Primary care networks

Primary health need

Primary legislation

Primary support reason

Primary use data

Priority services register

Prison / Young offenders institution / detention centre

Private automatic branch exchange

Privy to serious misconduct or mismanagement

Proactive services

Procedures and therapies

Process redesign

Procurement framework

Professional body

Professional contact

Professional curiosity

Professional identifier

Profound and multiple disabilities

Programme of care

Programming language

Project initiation document

Project management office

Prolonged psychological harm

Property disregard

Property exit sensor

Proportionality

Proportionate assessment

Protected characteristics

Provider failure

Provider's care plan

Provision by others

Psychoeducation

Psychological abuse

Psychologically informed environment

Psychotropic medication

Public Health England

Public health services

Public sector equality duty

Public service mutual

Public switched telephone network

Publication scheme

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