Georgina Tayler-Barrett

Today is World Delirium Awareness Day! 

Check out our two new delirium videos from our Research Nurse, Lisa Mcllmurray.

Delirium Score – Why We Score

Drawing on current evidence and local practice in the UK and Ireland, our first delirium video explains how early identification of delirium can improve patient outcomes, reduce complications, and support more effective compassionate care.

Delirium Score – What We Record

In our second delirium video, we take a quick and practical look at how paediatric delirium screening is recorded on PICANet Web in the PICU Admission dataset. By walking through where to find the data fields, how to interpret the screening outcome, and how to ensure every patient has a complete daily entry.

We will take the PICANet Web application offline on the morning of Wednesday 11 March to allow for maintenance work. Please save all work and exit the application prior to 09:30.

Once complete, the only change will be that data validation queries for the delirium fields will be switched on for all PICUs. Some PICU teams will not experience any change as they are already validating the delirium data.

Thank you and apologies for any inconvenience caused by the downtime.

We will be taking the PICANet Web application offline on Monday 02 March from 09:00 – 17:00.

Please save all work and exit the application prior to 9am. This is to undertake the freeze of the Level 3 PICU Admission and Transport datasets in preparation for annual State of the Nations Report cleaning.

Thank you and apologies for any inconvenience.

PICANet, based at the Universities of Leeds and Leicester, will be closed during the academic Christmas holiday, from the afternoon of 23/12/2025 – 02/01/2026 (inclusive).

There will be limited team cover on Monday 22^nd and the morning of Tuesday 23^rd December.

We will be back to respond to queries, including technical support queries, from Monday 5^th January.

In the meantime, there is a lot of information available on our website.

Thank you and best wishes from the PICANet Team

We are pleased to let you know that the PICANet National Paediatric Critical Care Audit State of the Nations Report 2025 is now live, you can find it on our Reports page.

The Infographic highlights some of the report’s key findings.

We will be taking the PICANet Web database offline on Tuesday 09 September to undertake some essential maintenance work.

Please save all work and exit the application prior to 9am.

We will let users know when we are back online.

Thank you and apologies for any inconvenience.

PICANet will be closed for the Spring bank holiday on Monday 26^th May and the University of Leeds will also be closed on Tuesday 27^th 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, based at the Universities of Leeds and Leicester, will be closed for the Easter break from Thursday 17th April – 22nd April inclusive.

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.

We will be taking the PICANet Web database offline on Monday 03 March from 09:00 – 17:00, please save all work and exit the application prior to 9am. This is to undertake the following work:

• Freeze the Level 3 PICU Admissions, Referrals and Transport datasets in preparation for annual State of the Nation Report cleaning; and
• Make the planned dataset changes live.

 When the system is back online, you should begin to use the updated forms that were communicated on 30^th January 2025, they can also be found on the PICANet website: https://www.picanet.org.uk

Please consider the system to still be at risk if this notice is still live after 17:00.

Thank you and apologies for any inconvenience.