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.

PICANet need to take the web application offline today for around 2 hours at 4pm on Friday the 11th of March. The application will be taken completely offline to allow us to do database maintenance work. Please save your work and exit the application before this time, any unsaved work will be lost.

The PICANet dataset for the period 01.01.2019 to 31.12.2021 will be frozen at 12 midnight on March 31st 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.

Thank you.

PICANet have published a new document which contains details on changes within the PICANet dataset over time, including its availability and limitations. The document is titled PICANet Dataset Changes Over Time and can be found in the Data Manuals and Guidance section of our website. The document will be of particular use for anybody submitting a data or information access request for PICANet data.

The COVID-19 II Custom Data Collection has been updated with input from clinicians.

The All admissions section of the data collection form will collect the following data items for all PICU admissions meeting the criteria for inclusion in the COVID-19 II Custom Data Collection:

• Number of doses of COVID-19 vaccine received
• Date of most recent COVID-19 vaccine
• Type of most recent COVID-19 vaccine

These fields were previously only collected in the Potential COVID 19 vaccine related complications section/ cohort and have now been removed to avoid duplication.

Other updates:

• PIMS-TS section: We’ve amended “COVID-19 PCR test result” question title to “COVID-19 PCR test result during this admission”.

• COVID-19 confirmed by PCR section: We’ve amended the option title “No symptoms – asymptomatic throughout PICU stay” to “No symptoms attributed to COVID-19 throughout PICU stay / asymptomatic”.

In order to release this there will be some PICANet web downtime from 17:00 on Friday 11^th February 2022. If you use PICANet web, a notification will appear on PICANet web to not enter data when the system is at risk. The updated data collection will be available from Saturday 12^th February 2022.

Version 2.0 of the data collection form and dataset definitions manual to support completion of the data will be made available on the COVID-19 page.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to get in touch with the team via [email protected] and PICANet Research Nurse Lyn Palmer ([email protected]).

Please note that there is no requirement to complete the GP practice code field in the PICANet Admissions dataset from Tuesday 01 Feb 2022.

By 31 Mar 2022 this field will be removed from the PICANet Admission dataset so it will not appear for those who enter data manually and if data imports include this field, the data will not be stored in PICANet web.

We will update the news page to confirm the date that the field is to be removed and let you know when the updated data collection resources are available.

Further to ceasing collection, previously collected GP practice code field data will be removed from PICANet web as it is not necessary or utilised.

We are pleased to announce that the PICANet Annual Report 2021 is now published.

This can be downloaded from our Annual Reporting and Publications page.

The PICANet Annual Report includes the Tables and Figures, Appendices and Supplementary Special Chapters:

1. COVID-19 and PIMS-TS in PICU
2. COVID-19 Staffing Survey
3. Diabetic ketoacidosis in English PICUs: the impact of COVID-19

New for the 2021 Annual Report, is an infographic to highlight some of key findings.

The PICANet Annual Report 2021, covering the period Jan 2018 – Dec 2020, will be published on our website on 13 January 2022. Please keep a look out!

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

The upcoming dates for returns are now on Mondays 10^th (by Tuesday 11^th January at the latest), 17^th and 24^th January 2022.

This change is due to the increase in reported numbers and to monitor the Omicron variant in PICU populations. The change will remain in place until further notice and will be reviewed if there is a change in national infection rates.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to get in touch with the team via [email protected]

Thank you again to the PICU teams for their ongoing hard work.

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 17^th December 2021.

If any queries, including technical support queries, are received after 17^th December, we will respond to them when our offices re-open on 4^th January 2022.

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