According to the NHS, many lives across the country could be saved with the new and improved digital alert system for possible cases of sepsis at hospitals. Sepsis is a form of severe infection that ...

Data collected by Sir Brian Jarman, emiterus professor of primary health care at Imperial College London, reveal that there were 15,722 sepsis-related deaths in hospital or within a month of discharge ...

More must be done to ensure that NHS staff are aware of the signs and symptoms of sepsis, an ombudsman has said, following the "avoidable" death of a patient. Stephen Durkin, a factory worker from ...

Dr Ron Daniels pointed to findings suggesting care was not good enough in about 40 per cent of cases when a child died and an infection was present A RAPID blood test that can fast-track diagnosis of ...

Chloe and her mother, Louise, who rushed her to hospital with severe pain in her ribs - PA A mother said that her 13-year-old daughter died in pain from sepsis in hospital because of a “pervasive ...

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The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is backing a slew of apps and wireless sensors that could help save lives and diagnose patients remotely. RespiraSense, for instance, is a small device that ...

For parents, it can be hard to know when a child’s winter illness is something more serious. Sepsis, a life threatening illness which can be particularly hard to spot, can cause kids to have symptoms ...

An investigation found the death of a 45-year-old disabled man at Bassetlaw Hospital was preventable after he waited 34 hours for intravenous antibiotics. The man, who suffered from Alexander disease, ...