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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

Patients dying of sepsis because medics too slow to spot it, warns NHS watchdog

patient is helped by medical staff
The chief executive of UK Sepsis Trust said the chances of a patient’s sepsis being spotted is a ‘postcode lottery’. Photograph: Jeff Moore/PA

Sepsis is causing thousands of deaths a year, a charity has said, as the NHS’s safety watchdog warned that doctors and nurses are too often slow to identify and treat it.

“The recognition of sepsis remains an urgent and persistent safety risk”, despite previous reports highlighting the large number of deaths it causes when diagnosed too late, according to the Health Services Safety Investigations Body.

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