PICANet bank holiday closure on 19 September

PICANet, based at the Universities of Leeds and Leicester, will be closed on Monday 19th September 2022 for the Bank Holiday for the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.

We will respond to any queries, including technical support queries, when our offices re-open on Tuesday 20th September 2022.

PICANet Summer bank holiday closure

PICANet, based at the Universities of Leeds and Leicester, will be closed on Monday 29th August 2022 for the Summer bank holiday. In addition the University of Leeds is also closed on Tuesday 30th August. We will respond to any queries, including technical support queries, when our offices re-open on Wednesday 31st August 2022.

National Data Opt-Out (England): exemption received for submission of data to PICANet for clinical audit

Participating organisations based in England, please be aware that PICANet has been granted an exemption from the National Data Opt-Out by the Health Research Authority Clinical Advisory Group. This is because the absence of even one child’s data can lead to inaccurate conclusions. This means that even if a National Data Opt-Out has been set, the child’s clinical audit data can still be entered into the PICANet web database. Please note that from 31st July 2022, PICANet will however apply the National Data Opt-Out to the PICANet research database to ensure that no children are included in any research projects where an opt-out has been applied.

PICANet Web database Scheduled Downtime 12:00 – 13:00 on Wednesday 20th July

PICANet need to take the database offline on Wednesday lunchtime to allow us to complete some maintenance work which should enable participating organisations to resume importing data files. Please save your work and exit the application before this time, any unsaved work will be lost. Please consider the system at risk until the news item in the PICANet web database has been removed.

Revised date for the PICANet Annual Dataset Freeze 2022

The PICANet dataset for the period 01.01.2019 to 31.12.2021 has been rescheduled to be frozen at 12 midnight on 30th June 2022. It is essential that all event data for this period is completed and all validation queries resolved.

For children admitted prior to December 31st 2021 who remain as inpatients on your unit please ensure that all daily intervention data up to and including 31st December 2021 is complete.

If you have any concerns about the dataset freeze, please do get in touch with the team via picanet@leeds.ac.uk.

COVID-19/PIMS-TS Rapid Reporting frequency change to monthly

PICANet is moving to a less frequent reporting schedule for COVID-19 and PIMS-TS cases from units. Returns will now be due monthly. The PICANet team will continue to advise of these dates by email.

The upcoming dates for returns are now on Mondays 4th July, 1st August and 5th September.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to get in touch with the team via picanet@leeds.ac.uk.

PICANet bank holiday closure and PICANet web database offline

PICANet, based at the Universities of Leeds and Leicester, will be closed for the spring and Platinum Jubilee bank holidays on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd June 2022.

We will respond to any queries, including technical support queries, when our offices re-open on Monday 6th June 2022.

Please note that the PICANet web database is currently offline to address unforeseen technical issues and participating organisations will be updated as soon as it is available again.

Thank you for your understanding.

PICANet Web Online and updates to data collection

We are pleased to confirm that the PICANet Web database is now online for participating organisations to resume data entry/ uploads and validation. The PICANet team will be in touch in due course to revise the date for the annual dataset freeze for the period 01.01.2019 to 31.12.2021.

As intended, the GP Practice Code field has been removed from the Admission dataset and the following documents have been updated to reflect this: Data Collection Form, Dataset Definitions Manual, Schema Manual and How to complete the PICANet Admission form.

The two renal customised data collections in are now only available for admissions up to 30 April 2022 and in due course the renal tabs will no longer be available to participating organisations. Renal support continues to be collected as part of the Admissions dataset.