Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 1:34 pm on 14 March 2018.
Cabinet Secretary, you will know that, in my role as Chair of the cross-party group on sepsis, I wrote to every single GP practice in Wales, and had a very disappointing only 11 responses, asking them what they knew about sepsis prevention and what tools they had. I've subsequently followed that up with letters to every social care head in Wales. A great response—over 60 per cent of them have responded so far. And they were far more informative, and they were talking about the fact that, actually, within the social care sector there's perhaps less awareness of it and they don't have any specific tools. And I do appreciate the fact that your colleague Huw Irranca-Davies has offered to speak at the next cross-party group on sepsis, but I wondered if you could tell us how the Government might be able to ensure that sepsis training is carried out throughout the whole of our NHS provision, to make sure that everybody, from allied healthcare professionals all the way up to the top consultant, really understand what sepsis is and what we can do to prevent it.