RCPCH: Learning from PICU transfers from a paediatric emergency department and paediatric ward

Summary

Children presenting to district general hospitals with critical illness may need transfer to a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) by a specialist retrieval team. 

Learning from these PICU transfers would help local hospitals identify areas for improvement to enhance patient safety and clinical care. Local hospital paediatricians often rely on updates from their retrieval service for information about their patients transferred to PICU.

Content

The project aim was to establish a monthly multi-disciplinary analysis of all the Paediatric cases transferred from the Paediatric Emergency Department and the Paediatric ward at the Royal Free, to identify areas of clinical learning and patient safety improvement.