Please see the alert below from the Wessex & Thames Valley Paediatric Critical Care Network

The Thames Valley and Wessex Paediatric Critical Care Network have finalised a guideline pathway for the management of children with difficult IV access. This pathway offers suggestions for how to escalate issues with IV access based on the clinical need along with options for vein-finding adjuncts which may be of help. The pathway has space to be personalised for your Trust with contact numbers etc to make management of this issue easier in acute situations. This pathway will be supported by a difficult IV access practical study day which will be available later in the year. 

Find the new pathway here - www.piernetwork.org/DIVA

​The Wessex Children’s & Young Adult’s Palliative Care Network have had a busy few months setting up training days, a quarterly journal club and network forum meetings to discuss complex cases and share experience and challenges. We held an Advance Care Planning training day in November exploring and training on the Children & Young Persons Advance Care Plan version 5, and a Practical Symptom Management training day in February, diving deep into symptom management at the end of life. We are developing guidelines and shared policies to support equitable end of life care across Wessex and working with integrated care boards, managed clinical networks and providers to support the development of sustainable 24/7 services. We are approaching the end of another 6 months and a Wessex 6 monthly update will follow shortly.