Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to improve care and support for people following sepsis and severe infection.

NHS England is working with NHS @Home to allow patients to recover from severe infection and sepsis at home, including in care homes. This includes ‘virtual wards’ which use remote monitoring, technology platforms and wearable devices such as pulse oximeters and through face-to-face community care where patients receive care from multidisciplinary teams.

Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy services are also being established and tested in National Health Service trusts to support the ability to discharge patients home safely whilst receiving antibiotic therapy.