In the wake of recent cases where a small number of patients who have died have later been shown to have contracted blood infections, Alex Cole Hamilton has helped us to put these into a wider context. His parliamentary question in Holyrood yesterday has revealed that the number of hospital stays with a diagnosis of sepsis fell by more than 50%, from 19 362 in 2018 to only 9 144 in 2019.
Sepsis mortality data for recent years is still under review but there was a 21% drop between 2012 and 2014.
Click to access WA20200219.pdf
I can’t see official figures but the Sunday post confidently stated in 2018 that there were around 1 500 deaths from sepsis per year in Scotland:
https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/sepsis-death-toll-climbs-in-scotland-to-over-4000-in-last-three-years/
Cole-Hamilton, himself, suggests, based on figures from the Lancet, that there were 11 million sepsis deaths globally. The world population is 7.58 billion so the global sepsis mortality rate is 1 in 689. The Scottish population is 5.4 million so the sepsis mortality rate is 1 in 3 600, 5 times lower .
Cole-Hamilton seems to be suggesting the comparison. I’m not sure it’s that useful but there you have it.
Perhaps more useful, the rate in the US is 250 000 per year or 1 in 1308, nearly three times higher than in Scotland.
https://www.mcnhealthcare.com/september-sepsis-awareness-month-2/
And, the rate in England is around 36 900 per year or 1 in 1 517, better than the US but more than twice as high as in Scotland.
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng51/resources/resource-impact-report-pdf-2549846269
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Good research, BUT–all the ambulance chasers need is one dead baby, one mother in tears—and Repressing Scotland will wallow in the story for weeks.
Context? Con-trick more like.
“There are none who go so low, as those sad few, who seek a NO”.
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