Transforming Care in the Neonatal and Paediatrics Department with Cellma

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 customizable 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 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 notifications, SCBU/NICU admissions, and community follow-ups. It offers real-time visibility into bed availability, clinic scheduling, and transfer histories. The module ensures that every patient encounter is logged, traceable, and linked to the correct care pathway.  

Electronic Patient Record (EPR) 

The EPR module brings together all child health data – birth records, neonatal screening, safeguarding notes, developmental assessments, and consultant reviews. Clinicians can view trends in growth, immunisation history, and care escalation. It supports clinical coding and structured templates aligned with NCCMDS and PCCMDS 

Document Management 

Cellma’s document management module captures and organises a wide array of clinical and legal documents, parental consent forms, care plans, safeguarding documentation, discharge summaries, and EHCPs. Documents are securely stored, version-controlled, and easy to retrieve during audits or multi-agency reviews. This gives the neonatal and paediatrics department full oversight of critical documentation that supports legal compliance and high-quality care delivery. 

Lab and Imaging Integration 

Cellma interfaces with LIMS and PACS to provide clinicians with continuous access to laboratory and imaging results like bilirubin, CRP, glucose, RSV, and Strep A, all within the patient record. The automated reports and alerts indicate critical values based on established neonatal and paediatric thresholds, making contact easy so the required action can be completed as soon as possible. 

Dashboards enable A&E teams to have vital signs in time series, with trends presented such as PEWS scores, neonatal thermoregulation, and weight monitoring. This integration allows the A&E team a tracking point for diagnostic testing and the clinical journey to be captured on a single platform.

E-Pharmacy 

The E-Pharmacy module accommodates complex medication needs from neonatal IV nutrition to older children requiring weight-adjusted dosing. The module includes drug interaction checking; allergy alert mechanism; and a prescribing workflow that adheres to child-based and paediatric pharmacology considerations. Cellma completely and fully accounts medication histories and provides ultimate traceability. For neonatal and paediatrics department, the E-Pharmacy module reduces risk and supports antimicrobial stewardship while aligning with both the NICE and BNFc guidelines. 

Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) Collaboration 

Cellma makes MDT collaboration a standard operating practice. It connects paediatricians, neonatologists, SLTs, OTs, dietitians, social workers, and mental health professionals by holding ‘Things to do’, shared notes and centralised care plans that allows for contributed and coordinated input. For neonatal and paediatrics department, MDT working is essential to where multi-agency involvement is needed for complex or long-term care scenarios, often for cases such as cerebral palsy, ASD or safeguarding. 

Reporting and Business Intelligence 

Through Cellma’s reporting capabilities, the neonatal and paediatrics team can create live dashboards for immunisations coverage, A&E attendance trends, safeguarding alerts, outcomes of developmental screening etc. Reports can be exported, and they can be modified for specific needs and for clinical audits, CQC inspections, or to provide data for the NHS.  

Patient Portal 

The patient portal allows parents and guardians to have quick access to all relevant health updates, including appointments, vaccination updates, growth tracking, consent forms, and secure correspondence from clinicians. The patient portal takes away a lot of the administrative workload from clinical staff while promoting family engagement. 

Referral Portal 

The referral portal within Cellma facilitates tracked, digital referrals coming from GPs, health visitors, school nurses, and internal referrals from other departments. The referral portal also facilitates urgent case triage (eg. safeguarding, developmental delay) and records the referral reason, accompanying documents and recommendations/outcomes. 

Cellma’s AI Capability 

Cellma, the best EHR software, uses AI to help improve the management of neonatal and paediatrics and ultimately improve the quality of care.  

Natural Language Processing: NLP allows clinician’s to quickly process unstructured text data from patient histories and clinical notes. NLP processes and identifies the most important information simultaneously for immediate decision-making and diagnosis. 

AI-driven drug interaction alerts: Cellma, the highest-ranked EHR software, has AI-driven interaction alerts with cross-matched patient histories in an existing database and automatically identifies potential drug conflicts.  

These AI features improve delivery of healthcare, more effectively and accurately, by improving neonatal and paediatrics care and increasing patient safety. 

Data Protection and Confidentiality in Cellma 

Cellma is fully compliant with the NHS Digital DSP Toolkit, UK GDPR, and CQC obligations under the regulations guiding safe practices. For the neonatal and paediatrics department, Cellma helps keep sensitive child health records secure by specifying encrypted storage, meticulous audit trails, user-based access and controls,  

With rising complexity in child health, from neonatal complications to chronic conditions like asthma and obesity, the neonatal and paediatrics department needs more than outdated systems. 

Cellma is a secure, clinically rich platform built to support every stage of neonatal and paediatric care. Book your free demo and see how Cellma supports smarter, safer care.