Sepsis: Health Education
(asked on 22nd February 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to raise awareness of sepsis.
Public Health England (PHE) launched a sepsis campaign in partnership with the UK Sepsis Trust and the Department in December 2016. The campaign ran until April 2017 and raised awareness of the signs and symptoms of sepsis amongst parents of young children and helped them know when to seek urgent medical help.
In 2017/18 PHE continue to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of sepsis with substantial developments in activity including: building sepsis messaging into the national Start4life Information Service for Parents email programme which reaches 430,000 parents of zero to five year olds; distribution of leaflets and posters; and the provision of a content-rich social media toolkit for partners to use on their own channels. In addition, PHE is working in partnership with Mumsnet, a leading digital platform for parents, to raise awareness through editorial and social media promotion.
In September 2017, NHS England published the second Cross-System Sepsis Action Plan and the Sepsis guidance implementation advice for adults which are available to view here:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/cross-system-sepsis-action-plan-2017/