PCCOT SIG
This new Paediatric Critical Care Outreach Teams (PCCOT) PCCS Special Interest Group is to draw together teams across the United Kingdom to collaborate and continue to develop PCCOT
Aim:
The aim of the PCCS subgroup is to enable a forum to establish standards for paediatric outreach and share data nationally to improve patient safety.
Scope of work:
The PCCS PCCOT SG will:
- provide a point of contact for any professionals with an interest in paediatric outreach, acute deteriorating patients.
- share learning and good practice within paediatric outreach.
- facilitate the implementation of current and future guidelines and competencies for paediatric outreach teams and ensure these are utilised.
- facilitate communication between groups of outreach teams nationally.
- facilitate local and national research, service evaluations and quality improvement projects to improve patient safety and management of the deteriorating patient as an outreach team.
- support new and developing teams establish their services, business cases, education strategies, standard operating procedures.
- facilitate local and national development of data points.
- provide a point of contact for any other professional bodies with an interest in paediatric outreach.
- facilitate local and national teaching and education projects aimed at improving the care of deteriorating patients that paediatric outreach teams are involved with.
Members:
We welcome all with an interest in paediatric outreach; medics, advanced practitioners and nurses.
Meetings:
The PCCS PCCOT meetings will be held quarterly and will be virtual and/or face to face and will be quorate when the group Chair or Deputy Chair and 4 other members from different hospitals are present. Meeting agendas and meetings will be shared on this page. The meetings run with a rolling Chair representing a different hospital each meet.
Contact details:
PCCOT PCCS SG chair – Kate Herriotts kate.herriotts@uhs.nhs.uk
PCCOT PCCS SG vice chair and secretary – Bethan Holmes bethan.homes@nhs.net
Useful links:
Paediatric outreach competencies (adapted from NORF adult competencies with NORF support and approval, endorsed by PCCS):
Enhanced critical care outreach competencies
Advanced critical care outreach competencies