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Sepsis

July 2024

  • Andrew Strawbridge during an England training session held at Pennyhill Park in February.

    ‘I was resuscitated three times’: England’s Andrew Strawbridge on the horror of sepsis

    Win or lose at Eden Park on Saturday, skills coach’s most fervent wish is for his life-threatening ordeal to improve medical procedures
  • Pippa Mae White and family.

    Pippa White would ‘almost certainly’ have survived had she been given antibiotics in time, NSW inquest hears

    Two-year-old’s sepsis death would likely have been prevented if necessary treatment had occurred 12-18 hours earlier, doctor tells coronial inquest
  • Pippa Mae White

    Two-year-old Pippa’s sepsis death in regional NSW left her family ‘completely shattered’. Was it preventable?

    Inquest begins into death of Pippa White, with deputy state coroner examining whether she received appropriate care

June 2024

  • Lucy Webster

    There should be over 100 disabled MPs, but there are barely any. UK politics has a huge accessibility problem

    Lucy Webster
    The 16m disabled people in the UK deserve better, but this government has made any improvements less likely, says journalist and author Lucy Webster

May 2024

  • close-up photo of Martha smiling; she has collar-length fair hair tucked behind her ears and is standing in front of a lake or stretch of water with hills seen in the background; her hair is blowing a little in the breeze.

    Martha’s rule to be rolled out in 143 NHS hospitals in England

  • MP Craig Mackinlay in Westminster, sitting on a sofa and smiling at the camera. He has two prosthetic hands

    What is sepsis, who is at risk and how can it be treated?

  • Craig Mackinlay.

    Tory MP Craig Mackinlay reveals his hands and feet have been amputated due to sepsis

  • Maya Siek laughing in the garden

    Kent NHS trust made failures in care of six-year-old girl, inquest finds

March 2024

  • A scientist looking at matter under a microscope.

    Sepsis blood test combined with AI could offer early detection tool

    Researchers say dual approach could quickly detect patients most at risk of severe complications

February 2024

  • Martha Mills: close-up of girl smiling at the camera with a lake and hilly landscape in the background

    ‘Martha’s rule’ granting urgent second opinion to be adopted in 100 English hospitals

    Initiative before national rollout will allow review of care for patients whose condition is deteriorating

January 2024

  • Tablets in a hand.

    People severely ill with suspected sepsis should be given antibiotics, Nice says

    National Institute for Health and Care Excellence says national early warning score should be used to assess severity of illness

November 2023

  • A busy hospital with doctors, nurses and staff busy at work

    Poor people much more likely to die from sepsis, study finds

    Those with existing health problems also at greater risk of condition that kills estimated 48,000 a year in UK

October 2023

  • Medical equipment on an NHS hospital ward.

    Sepsis killing too many as lessons not learned, warns NHS watchdog

    Damning report by health service ombudsman says hospitals must make urgent improvements to avoid more fatalities

September 2023

  • Line of ambulances queued up on road.

    Sepsis often missed as 50% of screening tools don’t work, study finds

    Research uncovers flaws in two of four tools used by health workers worldwide to diagnose condition
  • Maddy Lawrence

    ‘Maddy could still be here’: parents of UK student urge better sepsis training

    Exclusive: Parents say Maddy Lawrence, 20, was failed by medical staff after rugby injury at university led to infection

    • Theresa May backs campaign for Martha’s rule of second medical opinion

    • ‘Martha’s rule’: ministers consider law to give right to second medical opinion

    • My daughter Martha died needlessly in hospital – we believe this change would have saved her

      Merope Mills

August 2023

  • Amy Dowden

    Strictly’s Amy Dowden had ‘life-threatening’ sepsis during cancer treatment

    Latin and ballroom dancer, 33, was taken ill ‘in an instant’ two days after chemotherapy for breast cancer

September 2022

  • Martha Mills in September 2017, age 10

    ‘We had such trust, we feel such fools’: how shocking hospital mistakes led to our daughter’s death

    Martha was 13; her whole life stretched out ahead of her. But our faith in doctors turned out to be fatal. This is what I wish I’d known
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