PICANet Summer Bank Holiday Closure

PICANet will be closed for the Summer Bank Holiday on Monday 26th August and the University of Leeds will also be closed on Tuesday 27th August.

We aim to respond to your queries, including technical support queries, as soon as we can following the closure. Thank you for your understanding.

Interim Data Cleaning Pilot this autumn

PICANet are piloting an interim data clean in Autumn this year for Level 3 PCCUs and Transport Organisations. Tailored feedback on your organisation’s data quality will be provided, focusing on areas where you can have the biggest impact with the aim of reducing the burden on you at the annual clean.

Full details have been sent by email to your unit’s leads, primary contacts and staff who receive validation emails, keep an eye out in your inbox! 

PICANet Spring Bank Holiday Closure

PICANet will be closed for the Spring Bank Holiday on Monday 27th May and the University of Leeds will also be closed on Tuesday 28th May.

We aim to respond to your queries, including technical support queries, as soon as we can following the closure. Thank you for your understanding.

PICANet Data Dashboard updated with 2023 data

The PICANet Data Dashboard has been refreshed and updated with provisional 2023 data.

This is the earliest that we have made data from the previous year available!

Take a look for insights into PICU and specialist paediatric critical care transport service activity and performance against PICANet’s clinically agreed key metrics.

PICANet Easter Closure

PICANet, based at the Universities of Leeds and Leicester, will be closed for the Easter break from Thursday 28th March – Tuesday 2nd April 2024 inclusive. The University of Leicester will also be closed on Wednesday 3rd April.

We aim to respond to your queries, including technical support queries, as soon as we can following the closure.

In the meantime, a lot of information is available on our website. Thank you for your understanding.

Scheduled downtime for PICANet Web database 12 noon – 17:00, Thursday 15 February

We will take the PICANet Web database offline on the afternoon of Thursday 15 February to incorporate the Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) data collection for the PICUs undertaking this. We will also activate the validation of the delirium screening result data for the PICUs now screening. We will contact the units involved with more information.

 

Please save your work and exit the application before noon, any unsaved work will be lost. Please consider the system at risk until the news item in the PICANet Web database has been removed. Thank you

Closure of the COVID-19 Customised Data Collection

The COVID-19 Customised Data Collection will be available for admissions and transports to PICU up to and including 31 January 2024. Thereafter, the tabs will only be open for data entry and validation of records for admissions and transports on and prior to 31 January.

The collection of this data has supported the understanding of COVID-19 and paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) in PICU and we thank the participating organisations for the effort that they have put into this collection.

PICANet Annual Dataset Freeze 2024

The PICANet dataset for the period 01.01.2021 to 31.12.2023 will be frozen at 12 midnight on 01st March 2024; therefore, it is essential that by the close of Thursday 29th February, all event data for this period is completed and all validation queries resolved. 

For children admitted prior to 31st December 2023 who remain as inpatients on your PICU please ensure that all daily intervention data up to and including 31st December 2023 is complete. 

The data freeze has been brought forward this year as planned, in line with the reduction in the submission time of data to PICANet from three months to two months (PCCS standards 2021). 

Thank you all for your efforts to work to enter and validate the data. We look forward to publishing the level 3 National Paediatric Critical Care Audit State of the Nation Report 2024 later this year.