Sepsis: Staff
(asked on 3rd February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that every hospital employs a specialist in sepsis treatment.
This question was answered on 14th February 2023
The Department works closely with NHS England and other partners in the health system to support healthcare professionals to detect and treat sepsis. However, the responsibility for decisions on employment of treatment specialists, including for sepsis, falls to individual providers of healthcare.