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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.

The Level 3 PICU Admission and Transport datasets for the period 01 January 2023 to 31 December 2025 will be frozen on 02 March 2026. The PICANet Web application will be taken offline on 02 March to allow us to undertake this work.

It is essential that by the close of Sunday 01 March, all event data for this period is complete with validation queries resolved.  

For children admitted prior to 31 December 2025 who remain as inpatients on your PICU, please ensure that all daily intervention data up to and including 31 December 2025 is complete.  

Thank you for your efforts to enter and validate the data. We look forward to publishing the level 3 National Paediatric Critical Care Audit State of the Nations Report later this year. 

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 bank holiday on Monday 25 August and the University of Leeds will also be closed on Tuesday 26 August.

We aim to respond to your queries, including any for technical support, as soon as we can following the closure.

Thank you for your understanding.

PICANet need to take the database offline on Wednesday 18th June from 10:00 – to 10:00 on Thursday to allow us to complete key tasks for this year’s annual report.

Please save your work and exit the application before this time, any unsaved work will be lost. We hope to complete this work before 10:00 Thursday morning but please consider the system at risk until the news item in the PICANet web database has been removed.

Thank you for your patience.