Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to implement the recommendations of the Infection Management Coalition’s Whitepaper relating to (a) improved (i) surveillance, (ii) prevention, (iii) screening, (iv) diagnosis, (v) management and (vi) reporting of infection and (b) comprehensive support for people affected by infection and their families.

Several of these recommendations are addressed through existing activities in the Government’s ‘UK 5-year action plan for antimicrobial resistance 2019 to 2024’, including improving surveillance, screening and reporting of infection; embedding infection prevention, screening, diagnosis and management of infection in healthcare settings; and providing comprehensive support for infection, including from sepsis, for patients and their families.