News

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.

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.

The Level 3 Admissions, Referrals and Transport datasets for the period 01 January 2022 to 31 December 2024 will be frozen on 03 March 2025; therefore, it is essential that by the close of Sunday 02 March, all event data for this period is complete and all validation queries resolved.  

 For children admitted prior to 31 December 2024 who remain as inpatients on your PICU, please ensure that all daily intervention data up to and including 31 December 2024 is complete.  

 Thank you all for your efforts to work to enter and validate the data. We look forward to publishing the level 3 National Paediatric Critical Care Audit State of the Nation Report 2025 later this year.