Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if the Government plans to implement the action points from the World Health Organisation Resolution on Sepsis, agreed on 26 March 2017.

In May 2017 the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution to “improve, prevent, diagnose, and manage sepsis”, making sepsis a global health priority for the World Health Organization (WHO).

The resolution urges governments to develop national action plans in collaboration with the professions and patient-advocacy groups to strengthen policies and processes related to sepsis. The NHS England cross-system sepsis programme board, which includes stakeholders from across the health and care landscape, patient groups and professional bodies, published the first Cross-System Sepsis Action Plan in 2015. With the publication of the second Cross-system Sepsis Action Plan in September 2017, we will maintain our focus on improving prevention and treatment of sepsis. The cross-system Action Plan covers a range of actions from the WHO resolution that are appropriate to the national context.