National Paediatric Critical Care Audit (also known as PICANet)

National Clinical Audit

Delivered by:

University of Leeds; University of Leicester

Website:

Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet)

Also known as the Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet), the National Paediatric Critical Care Audit aims to help continually improve how children and young people (CYP) are treated, and cared for, in a paediatric critical care unit (PCCU) in the United Kingdom and Ireland during life-threatening acute or critical illness. The audit collects personal and clinical data on all children with a clinically determined need for paediatric critical care and organisational data from the PCCUs. It audits the quality of care delivered against the Paediatric Critical Care Society (PCCS) standards, which cover the whole pathway – from the initial referral of children to paediatric critical care, specialist transport, and admission.

PICANet plays a vital role in providing data to inform clinical decisions, improve service planning, and support better outcomes for babies, children, young people and their families.” Carli Whittaker, Chair of PICANet Steering Group

Supporting improvement

PICANet undertakes and supports quality improvement (QI), working with healthcare teams to help them see what they are doing well and where they can improve. The audit works towards a series of healthcare QI goals at the national level, whilst also supporting participating organisations to undertake local QI projects by enabling access to real-time local data downloads and reporting tools. QI resources can be obtained from the PICANet website.

Additional data sources

In addition to HQIP-published reports below, publicly available data can be found on the PICANet Data Dashboard on the PICANet website.