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PICS Council Vacancies
Under the new constitution, since PICS became a charity, PICS council has been expanded to allow for 4 nursing members, 4 medical members, 2 trainee members and 3 officers (President, Secretary and Treasurer)
There will therefore be 3 medical and 1 nursing vacancies on council.
Council meets four times a year and is responsible for the smooth running of the Society. Additionally, Council members may be approached by outside Bodies for opinions or to sit on Working Parties. A commitment to swift ‘turnaround’ of work is absolutely necessary for this post. Attendance at Council/Committee meetings is also a requirement of the post. Inability to meet this commitment will lead to a request for resignation.
Members standing for election must have been a PICS member for over a year; and if elected onto Council will be required to serve a maximum of six years (3 years in the first instance). If elected, the nominee agrees to fulfil the duties and responsibilities required of them.
This is an exciting time for PICS with many changes occurring nationally, and we need people with a commitment and vision to the improvement of PIC nationally to help lead this process.
Nomination forms will be sent out as well as placed on the website in the next 2 weeks so please watch out and apply. Closing date for applications is planned for the 31st of May 2012 with voting to finish 31st July. The first meeting would be the council meeting in Dublin on the 26th September.
Nomination form medical representative
Nomination form nursing representative
Dr Peter Wilson, Honorary Secretary, Paediatric Intensive Care Society, 21 Portland Place, London, WIB 1PY, United Kingdom. or look on PICS website www.ukpics.org.uk or telephone PICS Secretariat on +44 (0) 207 631 8819 or email pics@aagbi.org.
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PICS - becoming a member News
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Newsletter
PICS 2012 call for abstracts
The PICS 2012 conference website is now live, and the call for abstracts has gone out. Registration is expected to open on May 21st.
Safe and Sustainable - Neurosurgery
PICS members are invited to participate in a questionnaire survey regarding the new proposals produced for Childrens Neuroscience Networks by Safe and Sustainable. The questionnaire should take 10 minutes to complete and needs to be completed by 9th May 2012. The full invitation letter can be read here
The related propsal documents are:
PICS Education and Science Awards
Fellowships and Awards
Paediatric Intensive Care Society Research and Travel Awards The Paediatric Intensive Care Society provides a maximum of £5,000 each year to support research and travel awards.
Paediatric Intensive Care Society Research Awards Research projects in either basic science or clinical research in a field relevant to paediatric intensive care may be supported. Research intended to allow acquisition of data to support a larger scale research grant application are encouraged. Research awards will usually be a maximum of £2000 to allow two projects to be supported each year.
Paediatric Intensive Care Society Travel Awards PICS will also consider applications for an annual travel award. The award will be to a maximum of £1000 to allow the applicant to undertake overseas travel to allow them to acquire clinical or scientific skills that cannot be obtained in the United Kingdom. The skills must be relevant to the practice of or research into paediatric intensive care. Applicants must demonstrate that the skills developed will allow the development of a significant quality improvement in local or national PICU practice or will facilitate novel clinical research.
The application forms can be downloaded here. If you have any queries about the awards or making and application, please contact the Education and Science Committee Chair - currently Sarah Morley
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
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 |
Conferences and Meetings
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European Paediatric Conference - Istanbul, October
If you would like to advertise a forthcoming meeting or conference, please send details to Allan Wardhaugh
Paediatric Intensive Care Society Advanced Practice Group
Next meeting: Friday 30th March 2011 Venue: PICU, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham B4 6WZ Time: 11.00 – 16.00
For further details and to add agenda items please contact: Jenny Longden
ESPNIC Annual Nurse Science MeetingMay 2012 in Rotterdam
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Other news
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Safe and Sustainable - Neurosurgery
The steering group report and draft standards for this process have now been produced, as have draft standards for Children's Neurosurgical services in England.
Paediatric Neurosurgical Services in England: A Framework for the Future - Steering Group Report
Children's Neurosurgical Specification Standards: May 2011 Draft
There is a specific area on the forum available for people to post comments, and stimulate debate. |
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Intercollegiate Committee on Child SafeguardingIan Jenkins has asked that you read the following documents relating to Child Safeguarding. Ian has provided some background to the process, and highlights issues that PICS medics and nurses should be aware of - his message has been posted on the forum, and members are free to post here and raise any points of concern |
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Major Trauma GuidanceKevin Morris has highlighted new trauma guidance documents which have been published by the NHS Clinical Advisory Group read them here
There is a specific document for guidance in managing childhood major trauma |
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Cardiac Surgery Review
Safe and Sustainable has been reviewing Paediatric Cardiac Surgery provision in the NHS. Its findings were published in early 2011.
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