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