NICE Antibiotic guidelines

The draft Antibiotics for neonatal infection clinical guideline is now out for consultation and runs until the 27th February 2012. Below is the relevant link where you will find all the instructions and documents needed in order to get involved and make your comments:

http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG/Wave23/7/Consultation/Latest

All responses are provided using the comments proforma (ensuring all relevant fields are completed, including your organisation’s full name) and forward this electronically by 5pm at the latest on Monday 27th February 2012 to: antibioticsneonatal@nice.org.uk 

Economic Modelling

The Developers have produced an economic model in support of their report.  The Institute would like to offer stakeholders the opportunity to receive an executable version of this model by email.

Executable copies of the model will be released to you on the basis that you agree in writing to the following conditions for its use. If you wish to request a copy of the model please put your request in writing, together with your agreement of the conditions, to Palida Teelucknavan

• The economic model and its contents are confidential and are protected by intellectual property rights, which are owned by the Developers. It cannot be used for any purpose other than to inform your understanding of the guideline. Accordingly, neither the model nor its contents should be divulged to anyone other than those individuals within your organisation who need to see to them to enable you to prepare your response. Those to whom you do show the documents must be advised they are bound by the terms of the Confidentiality Acknowledgement and Undertaking Form which will need to be signed and returned to the Institute by your organization prior to receiving a copy of the model. The confidentiality form is available with the rest of the consultation documents on the link above.  

• You may not make copies of the file and you must delete the file from your records when the guideline development process is complete.  You must confirm to us in writing that you have done so.  You may not publish it in whole or part, or use it to inform the development of other economic models.

• The models must not be re-run for purposes other than the testing of its/their reliability.

If you have any further queries on this guideline consultation, please contact Palida Teelucknavan

NICE Head Injuries

NICE are inviting nominations for individuals to join a scoping workshop on head injuries.

If you would be interested in representing PICS please let us know

The deadline for expressions of interest TO PICS is January 13th 2012 – we will then notify whoever is selected to allow time for submiisison of the form to NICE by 20th January 2012.

Kevin Morris

PICU Bed Status

We have been working with Connecting for Health to put in place a bed monitoring system for PICU

This is now in place and we will be undertaking a pilot testing of the system over the coming days and weeks. Your PICU Director / Clinical lead has been given details on how to enter your unit data onto the system.

In response to feedback we have also added columns to capture information on the number of patients receiving cardiac and respiratory ECMO in each unit.

We hope and expect that the number of units using the system will increase –the system was only launched yesterday!

Please let us know if you have any comments on the system or experience any difficulties.

Kevin Morris

Organ Donaton Guidelines

NICE have produced the document 'Organ donation for transplantation: improving donor identification and consent rates for deceased organ donation guideline' . THey have passed on thanks to PICS members who were involved in the process.

Guideline

Draft Guideline consultation

Pre-publication check

PICANET

The 2011PICANET annual report is now available online.

PICS-SG Renal Group

There are plans to develop a data collection project relating to CRRT. For more informatioon on this, go to the PICS-SG Renal page