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Welcome to the new look PICS website.
The site has been changed slightly to hopefully make it easier to navigate to the sections you want - but as with all websites, the content is more important than style, and PICS is looking for new sub-editors to oversee the devolpment of the new-look site.
If you would be interested in contributing content, please use the contact link above to make yourself known. You would need no web design skills, as all content can be submitted to the web editor in all common file formats, and will be uploaded and edited by them.
I also realise that many people will wish to contribute more freely, and can do so using the forum area. Here, there are many message boards where you can directly post your own content, and respond to other people's contributions. This includes attaching files, images etc. Bear in mind, though, that even though this area is password protected, absolutely no patient identifiable information can be posted, and, as with all items on the web, I suggest that you don't post anything which you think would be inapproriate for public consumption.
In order to post on the message boards, you will need to register a username and password. To speed up this process, it will be automatic validation for the first month, and thereafter, it will require validation by the website administrators.
I look forward to getting your feedback, and no doubt there will be a stream of volunteers to act as section editors.
Allan Wardhaugh
Section subeditors needed
PICS would like sub-editors to be responsible for providing up to date content for the following sections of the site:
- Education
- Research
- Transport
- Trainee section
If you are interested, use the contact link above. Ideally, you would be actively involved in the relevant sub-group, and would simply be keeping the wider PICS community up to date with your group's activity. However, there is plenty of scope to provide a lot of relevant extra content which would be of interest to many PICS members, and it would be down to you to develop those ideas.
You would also be given responsibilty for monitoring the relevant sections on the forum. This is easy to do and requires no special IT skills.
NCEPOD Surgery in Children Study

NCEPOD is conducting a national study to review remediable factors in the processes of care of children (aged 17 and younger at the time of procedure) who die within 30 days of a surgical procedure.
Questionnaires are being sent to the surgeon and anaesthetist who performed the primary procedure. Once completed they should be returned alongside copied extracts of the casenotes...............more
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