12. Short Debate: Sepsis — The Chameleon

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 8:10 pm on 18 April 2018.

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Photo of Suzy Davies Suzy Davies Conservative 8:10, 18 April 2018

Can I say thank you very much, Angela? For me, for the last 40 years, the word 'septicaemia', which is the same thing, was just the word on the bottom of my grandfather's death certificate. And when he died, completely unexpectedly, in hospital, he was my grandmother's carer and, as Julie has indicated, she ended up going into a home, having a stroke and the whole family was devastated within a few months. I think it says a lot that, even though the UK Sepsis Trust has done an enormous amount of work on raising awareness, it has actually taken a radio soap opera, which ran a very, very upsetting storyline, to really raise awareness within the population generally. And I think that has to be a prompt for you, Cabinet Secretary, to really take seriously the requests that are being made of you today to run a national, or at least a Welsh national, awareness campaign, not least for carers and care workers. As Angela said, this disease is a chameleon, and, as your Minister says, we are not quite in a position yet to confirm that all our carers and care workers are fully trained in sepsis awareness. Thank you.