APPENDIX 7: ACRONYMS
BIT Behavioural Insights Team (Cabinet Office)
BPS British Psychological Society
CSA Chief Scientific Adviser (within a Government
department)
CSS Chief Social Scientist
DECC Department of Energy and Climate Change
Defra Department for the Environment, Food
and Rural Affairs
DH Department of Health
DfT Department for Transport
ESRC Economic and Social Research Council
GCSA Government Chief Scientific Adviser
CSS Chief Social Scientist
GDA Guideline Daily Amount
GES Government Economic Service
GSR Government Social Research service
HoA Heads of Analysis group
HMRC Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
MRC Medical Research Council
NCSCT NHS Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training
NGO Non-Governmental Organisation
NHS National Health Service
NICE National Institute for Clinical Excellence
NPRI National Prevention Research Initiative
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development
QALY Quality Adjusted Life Year
RCT Randomised Controlled Trial
RCUK Research Councils UK
STT Sustainable Travel Towns programme
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