Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what funding they are allocating to (1) sepsis research, and (2) cancer research; and whether there are any planned changes to that funding.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department invests over £1 billion per year in health research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including sepsis research and cancer research.
As with other Government funders of health research, the NIHR does not allocate funding for specific disease areas. The level of research spend in a particular area, is driven by factors including scientific potential and the number and scale of successful funding applications.
Nov. 15 2023
Source Page: Antibiotic resistant infections and associated deaths increaseFound: Klebsiella pneumoniae – a cause of sepsis – is becoming increasingly resistant to a range of antibiotics
Jan. 17 2024
Source Page: Freedom of Information responses from the MHRA - week commencing 17 October 2022Found: MedDRA 25.0 Reaction Name TotalFatal Infections Haemophilus bacteraemia 1 0 Haemophilus sepsis
Mentions:
1: Gulhane, Sandesh (Con - Glasgow) identifies and deals early with problems such as oral cancer and bacterial fungal infections that can cause sepsis - Speech Link
2: Webber, Sue (Con - Lothian) There are also bacterial and fungal infections that can cause sepsis, and gum disease is linked to a - Speech Link
Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: Preterm BirthFound: newborn babies in the UK are diagnosed with an early- onset GBS infection.v Early-onset GBS can cause sepsis
Mentions:
1: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) services.Practising hygiene during antenatal care, labour and birth reduces the risk of infection, sepsis - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) Having access to WASH facilities prevents up to 1.4 million maternal and neonatal sepsis-related deaths - Speech Link
Mar. 14 2024
Source Page: Freedom of Information responses from the MHRA - week commencing 29 May 2023Found: septic granulomatosis, Intestinal sepsis, Klebsiella sepsis, Listeria sepsis, Meningococcal sepsis,
Mentions:
1: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) She rightly highlights some of the problems with spotting things such as sepsis infections, which pharmacists - Speech Link
Apr. 04 2024
Source Page: Combined antibiotic approved to treat adult patients with severe infections of the urinary tract and hospital-acquired pneumoniaFound: infections and pneumonia can lead to bacteraemia, where bacteria enter the bloodstream, potentially causing sepsis—a