Govt announces new measures to tackle sepsis

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced new measures to tackle sepsis, which each year claims some 31,000 lives and costs the NHS in England about £2 billion. The new measures, which involve the NHS, government and national health bodies, aim to make tackling sepsis as important to the NHS as Clostridium difficile and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), whose rates have virtually halved since 2010. It is estimated that 11,000 lives and £160 million could be saved every year through better diagnosis and treatment, according to the Pharma Times. The plans include an audit of current practice in every GP surgery