Make Sepsis a Top Priority

In Emergency Care

Better Awareness by Medical Professionals

make sepsis as much a priority for emergency treatment  as stroke or heart attack

• Ensure Sepsis care is treated with the same level of urgency and resources as other critical medical emergencies.
  
  
• Time is of the essence when treating sepsis, so health professionals need access to fast and reliable Sepsis tests to reduce preventable deaths. Diagnostic tests are typically done in centralised laboratories, which means clinicians have to wait for the results.
  
  
• Raise awareness in medical staff of the signs and symptoms of sepsis.
  
  
• Empowering the public to ask “Could it be sepsis?” can help save lives.
  
  
• Signpost rehabilitation services to reduce pressures on the NHS.
  
  
• Ensuring survivors have access to ongoing care and support will help keep them well and out of hospital.
  
  
• Make medical professionals aware that for patients that do survive Sepsis, they frequently face long-term health challenges with Post Sepsis Syndrome.

Background

Information from petition by UK Sepsis Trust

Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that kills more people globally than cancer, yet it does not receive the same priority as heart attacks or strokes within our National Health Service (NHS).

Sepsis affects 245,000 people in the UK every year and tragically claims 48,000 lives. 

Sepsis does not discriminate - it can strike anyone, at any age, often with devastating consequences.