Sepsis: Hospitals

(asked on 16th February 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of hospital-acquired sepsis there were in each of the last 10 years.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
This question was answered on 21st February 2024

The Department and NHS England do not centrally hold information on hospital acquired sepsis, although incidents of this may be held by local providers. The Office for National Statistics publishes the number of death registrations where sepsis is mentioned anywhere on the death certificate, in England and Wales. The following table shows the number of deaths registered where sepsis was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate in England and Wales, in each of the last ten years until 2022:

Year

Number of Deaths

2013

22,967

2014

22,826

2015

24,784

2016

24,973

2017

23,709

2018

23,185

2019

21,458

2020

19,324

2021

21,947

2022

25,542

The figures for 2023 have not yet been published.

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