Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will run a national campaign to raise awareness of sepsis.

Local National Health Service trusts may already choose to run local public awareness campaigns on sepsis.

Recent evidence suggests that there is high awareness of sepsis among the general public. The Department is focused on improving the clinical awareness and recognition of sepsis by healthcare professionals, so that unwell and deteriorating patients are identified promptly and started on life-saving treatment.

NHS England has launched several training programmes aimed at improving the diagnosis and early management of sepsis. These programmes are regularly reviewed and revised with support from subject matter experts as new national sepsis guidance is implemented.