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 31^st 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 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.

The PICANet dataset for the period 01.01.2019 to 31.12.2021 has been rescheduled to be frozen at 12 midnight on 30^th 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 31^st 2021 who remain as inpatients on your unit please ensure that all daily intervention data up to and including 31^st 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.

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, 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.

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.

We have released version 1.1 of the PICANet Annual Report 2021 following a correction to the descriptive text surrounding Figure 7 (p32) and two in-document links to figures. These minor changes do not impact on the overall findings of the report or the recommendations. The report be downloaded from our Reports page.

Please note that the PICANet Web database remains offline for both the PICANet team and participating organisations. This means that when you visit the page you will receive a ‘this site can’t be reached’ message. The University of Leeds are working to rectify this and we will update you as soon as it is available so that data entry and validation can be resumed.

PICANet, based at the Universities of Leeds and Leicester, will be closed for the Easter break from 12:30pm on Thursday 14^th April 2022 until Tuesday 19^th April 2022 inclusive. In addition, the University of Leicester will be closed on the morning of 14^th April.

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

Thank you for your understanding.

Unfortunately the PICANet web application is currently offline which means that when you visit the page you will receive a ‘this site can’t reached’ message. Please be reassured that the University of Leeds are working to rectify this and we will update you as soon as it is available so that data entry and validation can be resumed.