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.
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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
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August 2009 - PICANet National Report now available.
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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 - 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 |
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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