A paediatric sitrep to sit alongside the existing adult COVID-19 sitrep to provide system wide capacity data across all NHS organisations. The paediatric sitrep is to be collected on a daily basis and used to monitor system pressure and aid decision of provision of mutual aid and system response.
This data collection encompasses acute paediatric services including general paediatric and critical care units, comprising paediatric critical care units/beds (at all levels), special care baby units and neonatal units. The standard applies to all sites operating these services.
Data should be collected and submitted by all health boards that fall within scope, and at site level, i.e. one submission for each site operating paediatric / neonatal services. The data collection proforma can be found here:
Paeds data template live v2.2.xlsm
Data is to be submitted to Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW), via the process described below, to collate and forward to Welsh Government and relevant NHS bodies.
The deadline for submissions is 11.30 each day, based on an 11am snapshot position. Note that this is a strict deadline to ensure the data can be processed and extracted for reporting to Welsh Government by 12pm. Submissions will therefore be accepted between 11.30am and 12pm.
Data is to be collected each day of the week, including weekends. Data collected on Saturdays and Sundays is reported to Welsh Government on the following Monday. Weekend data can either be submitted to DHCW on the day collected or on the following Monday. Data for Bank Holidays is usually reported to Welsh Government on the following working day, but please refer to direct communications from DHCW and Welsh Government for latest details of current expectations.
Please use the enclosed proforma for data collection, and submit to DHCW in accordance with the process described as follows:
Open the most recent version of the paeds data template. If prompted, open as read only and Enable Content.
The form is defaulted to today's date. If you are submitting data for a previous date or a resubmission of today’s data, please select the check box next to the Update Date column.
Once you have completed the form, please save it locally before submitting it to DHCW via the portal using the link below: