Sepsis: Death
(asked on 19th December 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an estimate of the number of deaths from sepsis in each of the last five years.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 9th January 2024
The Office for National Statistics publishes the number of death registrations where sepsis is mentioned anywhere on the death certificate in England and Wales. The number of deaths registered where sepsis was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate in England and Wales in each of the last five years was 23,089 in 2018, 21,458 in 2019, 19,324 in 2020, 21,947 in 2021, and 25,542 in 2022.