October 2018
A recent study has found that the UK sepsis death rate is five times higher than Europe’s best performing country. Researchers have warned that the UK is failing to keep up with other wealthy nations’ progress on cutting sepsis mortality. Sepsis is a serious complication of an infection which, without quick treatment, can lead to multiple organ failure and death. It kills more than 46,000 people in the UK and six million people worldwide each year.