Georgina Peace

PICANet, based at the Universities of Leeds and Leicester, will be closed during the academic Christmas holiday.

Support from the PICANet team will be available up until Thursday 21^st December 2023.

If any queries, including technical support queries, are received after 21^st December, we will respond to them when our offices re-open on 2^nd January 2024.

Thank you and season’s greetings from the PICANet Team.

We are pleased to announce that the PICANet State of the Nation Report 2023 has been published. It is available our Reports page.

The report comprises the Summary Report, Infographic, Appendices and the Tables and Figures.

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

We have also added new resources to support the collection of healthcare associated infection and delirium screening result data to the Quality Improvement Resources page.

We are pleased to announce that the PICANet Data Dashboard has been updated. Take a look for the first insights into PICU activity and performance against PICANet’s clinically agreed key metrics in 2022 ahead of the release of the forthcoming State of the Nation Report 2023.

Next week we will refresh and update the PICANet Data Dashboard. The January – December 2022 data will be added and we are pleased to include data from all participating organisations in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

The update includes the new addition of numbers and rates of unplanned extubations in all PICUs.

We are pleased to announce that PICANet are launching the Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) data collection. This comprises of both an ECMO Referral and ECMO Admission dataset.

Initially, data will be collected using paper data collection forms. This is to allow for a review of the dataset and data collection tool while the software to support the collection in PICANet Web is developed.  This also allows for you to develop an understanding of completing the data collection forms and how this will work practically on your unit. Only those units who undertake ECMO will be required to complete these forms, and forms will need to be completed retrospectively for the current financial year (from 01/04/2023).

More information can be found on the customised data collection webpage.

Picanet is celebrating 20 years of data collection in 2023!

As part of this, we would like to showcase the best ways our data has, and is being used.

We would like to know:

• Whether you have used PICANet data in the past 20 years
• If so, what for? (topics you have looked into etc)
• Where you have had any publications, conference abstracts or presentations which include the use of PICANet data.

Please contact picanet@leeds.ac.uk if you have anything that would be suitable.

The final submission of COVID-19 and PIMS-TS Notification Form is due from PICUs on Monday 5^th June 2023. Following this date, returns are no longer required.

We are grateful to the PICU teams for the work put into the rapid reporting, thank you!

We have released a Data Dashboard on our website which presents an overview of PICU activity and performance against PICANet’s clinically agreed key metrics.

The PICANet Data Dashboard is available to everyone and complements PICANet’s published reports and data. PICANet intend to refresh the Data Dashboard throughout the year and broaden the geographical scope for inclusion in some of the charts in due course.