article_snippet.sent: Patients’ lives are at risk from blood poisoning because hospitals are not implementing a standard treatment that can double hospitals chances of survival, experts have warned.
article_snippet.sent: After high-profile campaigns in 2013 which exposed the shocking death rates, the method was officially recommended by NHS England.
article_snippet.sent: Yet an audit, revealed at the annual president’s meeting of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in March, showed that vital steps in the process are being missed, meaning the condition was more likely to take hold with fatal consequences.
article_snippet.sent: the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh is now calling for nationwide tracking of the protocol to weed out hospitals that are failing to tackle the problem.
article_snippet.sent: Sadly this and other studies show patients are not getting access to a treatment that saves lives.
article_snippet.sent: Every one of the six steps is vitally important, and nothing should be missed out.
article_snippet.sent: Some 90 per cent of patients were not given correct treatment to prevent blood poisoning on a surgical ward at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, an NHS study revealed .
article_snippet.sent: Those with pre-existing conditions such as diabetes or cancer are at increased risk.
article_snippet.sent: Awareness needs to be raised of this awful condition, which takes so many lives.
highlights_snippet.sent: Blood poisoning affects more than 100,000 Britons a year and kills 37,000 .
  