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

Coming soon: PICANet State of the Nation Report 2023

The PICANet State of the Nation Report 2023, covering the January 2020 – December 2022 data collection period, is due to be published on the reports page of our website on 14th December 2023. Please keep a look out! In the meantime you can explore the Data Dashboard for the first insights into PICU activity and performance against PICANet’s clinically agreed key metrics in 2022.

Summer bank holiday closure days

PICANet, based at the Universities of Leeds and Leicester, will be closed for the summer bank holiday on Monday 28th August 2023. The University of Leeds will also be closed on Tuesday 29th August.

We will respond to any queries, including technical support queries, when our offices re-open on Wednesday 30th August. Thank you for your understanding.

PICANet Easter Closure

PICANet, based at the Universities of Leeds and Leicester, will be closed for the Easter break from Thursday 6th April – Tuesday 11th April 2023 inclusive.

We will respond to any queries, including technical support queries, when our offices re-open on Wednesday 12th April 2023.

Thank you for your understanding.

A temporary pause on processing new data requests

We regret that at this time PICANet are taking a temporary pause on processing new requests for data while we focus on completing the key deliverables for the national clinical audit. This is a short term measure which we will continue to review. We will resume as soon as practicably possible.

If you have submitted an enquiry or request before 10th February 2023, we will continue to process this/ respond to you as soon as we can.

In the meantime, you might find the PICANet Reports and their associated tables and figures helpful. They are available on our Reports and Annual Report Archive webpages. We also have a number of reports in relation to COVID-19 available on the COVID-19 webpage.

Thank you for your understanding.

PICANet Annual Dataset Freeze 2023

The PICANet dataset for the period 01.01.2020 to 31.12.2022 will be frozen at 12 midnight on 31st March 2023; it is essential that all event data for this period is completed and all validation queries resolved.

For children admitted prior to 31st December 2022 who remain as inpatients on your unit please ensure that all daily intervention data up to and including 31st December 2022 is complete.

Although there has been a reduction in the submission time of data to PICANet from three months to two months (PCCS standards 2021), we have not brought forward the data freeze this year due to the current climate. However, next year we plan to freeze on 01st March 2024 to be in line with the new standards.

Thank you all for your efforts to work to 31st March to enter and validate the data.

Seasonal Closure 23/12/2022 – 02/01/2023

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 22nd December 2022.

If any queries, including technical support queries, are received after 22nd December, we will respond to them when our offices re-open on the 3rd and 4th of January 2023.

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