Transforming Care in the Neonatal and Paediatrics Department with Cellma
Table of Contents Help Others Discover – Click to Share! Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Table of Contents As healthcare continues to evolve, the Neonatal and Paediatrics Department is an area where efficiency, accuracy, and safety must remain uncompromised. The neonatal and paediatric periods of life inevitably come with complex healthcare demands, and it is crucial that care is coordinated. In England and Wales, there were 2,349 infant deaths in 2022, and over 90,000 babies (1 in 7 babies born) were admitted onto a neonatal unit. These numbers, in addition to the above, highlight the further need for a robust, data-driven, digital infrastructure to support health and care professionals and improve outcomes. This is where Cellma, a fully integrated Neonatal and Paediatric EHR Solution comes in. Cellma is a specifically built EHR solution that responds to the needs and has functionalities for PEWS and NEWS scoring, immunisations, weight-based dosages, parental consent and safeguarding, enabling clinicians to look after neonates across all levels of paediatric care. Cellma connects with other NHS Systems, such as PACS, Spine and CAMHS to ensure security and observations, makes sure we align with national data sets such as the NCCMDS and PCCMDS, and ensures that coordinated and high-quality care is the norm, not the exception. NHS Integrations and Compliance: Cellma Central to Trust: Neonatal Data Set (DAPB1595): Collecting outline patient characteristics, details of diagnosis, types of care interventions, and outcomes. Neonatal and Paediatric Critical Care Minimum Data Sets (NCCMDS, PCCMDS): Minimum documentation standards and protocols of care for infant and children in critical care. Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS): Supporting a single patient journey from antenatal booking through to postnatal assessments and outcome monitoring. Community Services Data Set (CSDS): This provides data across the whole community care continuum. Cellma also interfaces with Spine, Summary Care Records, and adheres to CQC, NHS Digital, and the DSP Toolkit for data protection. Monitoring Symptoms and Clinical Progression in Paediatrics and Neonates with Cellma In the context of an emergency paediatric or neonatal care, it is important for alertness to and monitoring of potential symptoms and tracking clinical progression in an accessible way (flow charting essential). Cellma offers condition specific templates, a scoring tool, and structured documentation to allow timely and clinically informed decisions to be made. Neonatal Sepsis: Cellma allows the documentation of early warning signs of sepsis and illness, including temperature instability, feeding difficulties, and respiratory distress. Cellma templates include trend charts for example CRP and WBC; easy entry for blood culture information, the infectious screen result, as well as a sepsis screen notifying staff once there community SIRS parameters have been met allowing timely escalations. Neonatal Jaundice: For jaundice, Cellma enables clinicians to continue tracking bilirubin levels against age-based nomograms (which only records values against one nomogram), and to document when phototherapy is administered by recording a time stamp against the phototherapy intervention. Cellma fully manages clinical decisions required for escalation as set out in ‘NICE’ guidelines and measures the visual appearance/assessment using a scoring system – allowing for tracking of progression. Paediatric Asthma: Cellma captures symptoms such as wheeze, chest tightness, and dyspnoea. Integrated GINA staging, PEFR charts, and exacerbation history allow clinicians to adjust treatment plans based on severity and response to therapy. Paediatric Sepsis: PEWS scoring is built into the triage flow, with auto-escalation triggers for tachycardia, altered consciousness, or poor perfusion. Real-time vitals integration and timestamped interventions ensure timely delivery of antibiotics and fluid resuscitation. Symptoms and Developmental Stage Tracking: Cellma includes age-specific symptom checklists for: Infants (0–28 days): cyanosis, poor feeding, lethargy Toddlers (1–3 years): fever, rash, vomiting School-aged: cough, joint pain, behavioural changes It also tracks developmental milestones across motor, speech, cognitive, and social domains. Custom alerts notify clinicians of flagged delays during outpatient reviews. Smart Tools and Alerts: NLP extracts critical signs from unstructured notes (e.g., feeding intolerance, abnormal cry, respiratory retractions), while dashboards highlight at-risk neonates and children based on trend deviations and scoring thresholds. From triage to intervention, Cellma provides neonatal and paediatric teams in A&E with the tools to act early, escalate appropriately, and monitor clinical progression with clarity. Safeguarding Built In – Because Safety Starts with Awareness In paediatric and neonatal care, safeguarding is not a function – it’s a duty. Cellma is designed for clinicians to allow for the detection, documentation, and escalation of safeguarding concerns through workflows and alerts to aid proactive child protection. CP-IS Integration Cellma integrates with Child Protection – Information Sharing (CP-IS), providing authorised users with instant access to a child’s protection status and social care plan. This is essential in emergency and unscheduled care environments such as A&E, maternity, paediatric wards, GP out-of-hours, 111 service, ambulance teams, SARCs and others. Safeguarding flags will show up in the patient’s summary, making the clinical decision support information available quickly for informed decisions. Safeguarding Alerts Based on narrative clinical notes, coded data or combinations of symptoms – Cellma alerts staff that immediate action is required and justify concerns with possible harm. Structured Safeguarding Pathways Fully customisable templates for child protection plans, LAC documents and multi-agency referrals – all with timelines, actions. Embedded Care Plans Shared care plans for safeguarding situations, with named worker responsibilities, contact histories, and social care involvement – all version-controlled and audit-ready. Audit-Quality Documentation Every action taken is time-stamped, traceable, and aligned to CQC and statutory reporting requirements, giving paediatric teams assurance of no red flag being unobserved. From initial check-in to follow-up case management, Cellma makes safeguarding visible, structured, and central to child healthcare delivery. Supporting Every Stage of Paediatric and Neonatal Care with Cellma Cellma is a leading edge, clinically intelligent EHR. It is an NHS-compliant platform tailored to the complex needs of neonatal and paediatrics department. Purpose-built to adapt across the care continuum, Cellma empowers the neonatal and paediatrics department to manage early interventions, complex conditions, and long-term developmental milestones with confidence and clarity. Let’s take a closer look at the modules that make this possible. Patient Admission and Scheduling (PAS) Cellma’s PAS supports the entire administrative workflow, capturing antenatal referrals, birth
