Thank you to the DEPICT Birmingham Children's Hospital team @PICU_BCHres for your efforts to encourage families to share their experiences - and well done on reaching the 100 milestone. KIDSNTS @PICU_BCH #100DEPICT_families

Another 100 milestone! Well done, and thank you, to the DEPICT Southampton PICU team including @cMel61598482 @NicholaEthering2 Friends of PICU @Sotonchildhosp for your help in encouraging families to share their experiences via the DEPICT Study #100DEPICT_families

6mnths in to the 1 year questionnaire study and we already have over 1,400 families taking part. Thank you to the research teams working in the 24 paediatric intensive care units -you are all awesome! #DEPICT_Study_Teamwork

Did you know.... paediatric retrieval teams across the country transfer approximately 5000 children every year, from general hospitals to Paediatric Intensive Care Units, mainly by road, sometimes by air! 🚑🚑🚑🚑🚑🚁🚁

At the @PICS_Conference in Bristol: update on the DEPICT study shows over 1500 patients already recruited, across 21 PICS. Fantastic collaboration.

In the lovely Bristol giving a DEPICT study update. Thank you all for your ongoing hard work@PICS_Society#Bris_PICS#DEPICT_Study

On the train today en route to meeting families -to talk about what it’s like to need and use the paediatric intensive care retrieval services #DEPICT_families

Numbers update: we have received over 1500 questionnaires from parents telling us about their transport experience. Thank you to families for participating and to the teams who have helped make that possible. As we enter the busy winter period let’s keep going! #depict_team

At King’s Cross station waiting to board train (alas not to Hogwarts)... meeting a family today to hear about their experiences of being transferred to PICU. Always very thankful to those who share their stories with us, be it by questionnaire or in person. #DEPICT_families

Wishing you all a wonderful festive season!! 🎄🎁🎅🏼🦌❄☃️ 12 days of Christmas 🎬 CATS WATChTransport STRS & Evelina London PICU Embrace Transport KIDSNTS Comet Transport 💙NWTS💙 ScotSTAR Great North Children’s Hospital Northern Paediatrics

It’s frosty this morning stay safe transport teams! STRS & Evelina London PICU WATChTransport 💙NWTS💙 Comet Transport @SONeTWessex Embrace Transport @NECTAR_gnch and anyone else I’ve left off the list! 🎄🎄🎄⛄️⛄️⛄️❄️❄️❄️

At Euston station this morning waiting to board a train...visiting a family who have kindly agreed to talk about their experience of being transferred to PICU #DEPICT_families

Just one week left until the parent and carer questionnaire feedback study closes. We want to thank all the families who have participated, and we also give thanks to the PICU teams who made that possible. Looking forward to sharing the results with you all. #DEPICT_Study

Last parent interview completed today - thank you to all who participated, hearing about your experiences in your own words is invaluable. #DEPICT_families

Great DEPICT_Study project meeting today with Prof P Ramnarayan (Ram) - saw parent experience results for first time. A treasure trove of info that will us help understand emergency retrieval services and what makes them good. So impressed.

Hot off the press. The OCEANIC Study protocol paper bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/5/e…. ResearchNUH Dr Maria Koufali Nottingham Children’s Hospital and NNU Nottingham University Hospitals National Institute for Health and Care Research @josephcmanning MAQCurley @JosLatour1 Professor Jane Coad RN FRCN Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) UoN Health Sciences

Thank you to the whole UK #PedsICU community on their collaboration in creating this paper thelancet.com/journals/lanch… on #PIMSTS, especially Prof P Ramnarayan (Ram), Barney Scholefield 🌈 💙, PICU Journal Watch #PedsICU #PedsCICU, Claire Evans and many others. Shows what we can do together. picpod.net

Scam calls have started pretending to be test & trace. They say you're a contact, need a test and that you need to pay £50 for home test. Test and trace will never ask you for money! Please let any particularly vulnerable people know (I will be telling my parents)