Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve public awareness and understanding of sepsis.

The Government continues to raise public awareness and understanding of sepsis through initiatives like Public Health England (PHE)’s national Start4life Information Service for Parents, targeting parents of zero to five-year olds. This includes leaflets, posters and a content-rich social media toolkit for partners to use on their own channels raising awareness at community level. PHE has also worked in partnership with Mumsnet, a leading digital platform for parents, to raise awareness through editorial and social media promotion.

The Department takes advice from NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Acute Deterioration Board, which brings together frontline experts from across the healthcare system, and seeks to ensure that sepsis campaigns target appropriate audiences and deliver measurable outcomes.