Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many deaths there have been due to sepsis in the last 24 months.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes annual data on the number of death registrations where sepsis was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate, and on the number of death registrations where sepsis was specified as the underlying cause of death, in England and Wales. The number of death registrations where sepsis was specified as the underlying cause of death is a proportion of the total number of death registrations where sepsis was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate.

According to ONS, in 2023, the number of deaths registered where sepsis was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate in England and Wales was 26,203. Of this total number, there were 4,260 deaths registered where sepsis was the underlying cause of death.

ONS has not yet published the number of deaths registered where sepsis was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate for 2024. However, ONS has published data on the number of death registrations where sepsis was the underlying cause of death in England and Wales for 2024, which was 4,372.