Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 22615

Sepsis

Tabled: 8 January 2025
Answered: 13 January 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in the UK have been diagnosed with sepsis in the last 12 months.

Answer

There is a lack of reliable estimates of the incidence and prevalence of sepsis, due to the inconsistency in the definitions used to describe sepsis, and the differences in coding between professionals and organisations in the United Kingdom.The Office fo...
ⓘ

This is an extract from the Parliament API. Search the full answer on Parliament.uk (UIN 22615) →