Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network

PICANet aims to continually support the improvement of paediatric intensive care throughout the UK through clinical audit. The Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet) is a national audit coordinated by the Universities of Leeds and Leicester which collects data on all children admitted to paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) across the UK.

To see a list of units that we are linked with, and to obtain more details on these units, please click here

What's new.......

January 2010 - 'Pharmacotherapy in the critically ill child' - course date announced

Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust have announced that they are running a two day course - Pharmacotherapy in the Critically Ill Child. This will take place on the 24th and 25th May 2010. Please click here for more details.

December 2009 - PICANet National Report for Wales available - 2006 - 2008

December 2009 - PICANet Newsletter now available

To view this and previous PICANet Newsletters, please click here.

November 2009 - CMACE recruiting Panel Assessors

The Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries are looking to recruit Panel Assessors for their enquiry into head injury in children. Please click here for more details or to view the CMACE website click here.

August 2009 - PICANet National Report now available.

Please see our newly published annual report. Full report available in PDF here and tables and figures only available in excel here

July 2009 - CMACE announce their new enquiry

The Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries (previously the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH) Enquiry into Head Injury in Children will run from 2009-2012 in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. For more details please click here

July 2009 - New Retrievals Dataset

In collaboration with Allan Wardaugh (Cardiff PICU) a prototype will be launched in Autumn 2009. This is a new development which will give us evidence on standards of retrieval across PICU - see proposal for more details

June 2009 - South West Audit of Critically Ill Children (SWACIC) Newsletter now available

SWACIC May 2009 Newsletter

June 2009 - PICANet Annual Meeting - date announced

We are pleased to confirm that the PICANet annual meeting will take place on 12th November at UCL London. Please contact Sarah Skinner to put your name down. More details of the event to follow....

January 2009 - SWACIC report 2008 now available

The long awaited Annual Report for SWACIC (South West Audit of Critically Ill Children) 2007-8 is now available .Data for the Region as well as a brief summary of Bristol PICU activity have been incorporated once again this year. SWACIC report

Hard copies of the report and enquiries are available from Carol Maskrey

December 2008 - New Paper published!

A new paper resulting from PICANet data has been published online by Archives of Disease in Childhood
The paper titled ‘Epidemiology of critically ill children in England and Wales:
incidence, mortality, deprivation and ethnicity’ promoted some interest in the media and has been picked up by some major news websites (BBC/Channel 4/Sky and Virgin).
http://adc.bmj.com/onlinefirst.dtl or see the press release

August 2008 - HQIP provide further PICANet funding

. We are pleased to announce 2 more years of PICANet Funding from Health Quality Improvement Partnership www.hqip.org.uk. The Department of Health have announced details of the new consortium that will run the National Clinical Audit and Patient’s Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP) and new consortium will also have a role in supporting the newly created National Clinical Audit Advisory Group (NCAAG) www.clinicalauditsupport.com


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