One in four patients faces delays getting treatment for sepsis, putting lives at risk, experts say.
Mr Smith died in November last year
"I am just so angry about the delay giving him antibiotics - that could have made all the difference."I've seen notes acknowledging he should definitely have had them on day two - but it didn't happen." But if the infection manages to spread quickly round the body, then the immune system will launch a massive immune response to fight it.
A small part of their budget - less than 1% - has been held back in recent years to give them an incentive to take part and improve.The BBC has analysed figures from more than 100 hospital trusts, around three quarters of those in England.Performance on wards and in A&E was similar, but A&E departments have improved since early 2017 when about three fifths of patients were started on antibiotics within an hour.
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