The Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet)

The Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet) is a national and international audit run jointly by the University of Leicester and the University of Leeds.

PICANet has collected data from Paediatric Intensive Care (Level 3) Units for over 20 years and we are funded by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership. Recently, we have been commissioned by NHS England and Improvement to undertake a development project to expand to include data collection and reporting of children in Level 2 Paediatric Critical Care Units (sometimes referred to as High Dependency Units or HDU’s). 

PICANet was established to develop and maintain a secure and confidential high quality clinical database of paediatric intensive care activity in order to improve the health outcomes for children and young people. We do this through:

• Monitoring and reviewing treatment from admission to discharge
• Working to understand how critical illness affects different groups of children and why
• Improving paediatric health care by planning and identifying what future resources will be needed

The PICANet research database also supports high quality research in the areas of paediatric intensive care, specific conditions affecting children and young people accessing paediatric intensive care services, epidemiology of critical illness and public health.

PICANet team in TIMMS

PICANet is led from TIMMS by Co-Principal Investigator Dr Sarah Seaton.

• For more information please visit the PICANet website.