Addressing the Urgency: The Need for Increased Sepsis Awareness and Prevention in the Netherlands

Dated:
17 oct. 2023

Written questions from member Van Esch (Party for the Animals) to the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport about sepsis.

Are you familiar with the message ‘Without intervention, sepsis will become more common and deadly due to an aging population’?[1]
What is your response to this? Are you aware that sepsis is one of the most fatal conditions, claiming more lives every year than heart attacks or traffic accidents? Are you aware that with sepsis every hour counts and that earlier recognition is therefore crucial is, but that 4 out of 5 Dutch people are not familiar with sepsis? What is your response to this? Do you acknowledge that the fact that Dutch people are hardly familiar with sepsis leads to delays in treatment and that this delay increases the risk of an ICU admission? Are you aware that in the United Kingdom[2]
and in Germany[3]
have been major public campaigns for years and that is why the population there is much more familiar with sepsis than in the Netherlands? What is your response to this? What is your response to Professor Kaasjager’s statement that if citizens are more familiar with sepsis and ask questions about sepsis symptoms, this will save life-saving time? Are you prepared to set up a public campaign in the Netherlands about sepsis, so that more people become familiar with sepsis? If not, why not and what other measures will you take to increase awareness of sepsis among Dutch people? Do you recognize that, because sepsis can be caused by different pathogens, the infection can start in different organs and the consequences can also occur in different organs? organs can manifest, sepsis often falls through the cracks when applying for subsidies? If not, why not? Do you acknowledge that the number of successful subsidy applications is extremely low, especially compared to other diseases with such consequences as sepsis? If not, why not? How will you ensure that more subsidies are provided for sepsis research? For example, are you willing to set up a sepsis-specific financing program? If not, why not? Do you acknowledge that there is a lack of good sepsis registration, where there are figures for sepsis patients in Intensive Care, but there is insufficient insight into patients who have or develop sepsis in another hospital department?[4]
If not, why not? If so, what measures will you take to ensure that sepsis is better recorded? Are you aware that there is no diagnosis treatment combination (DBC) for sepsis, which means that aftercare for sepsis patients cannot be recorded anywhere? What are you going to do about this? Do you acknowledge that aftercare and support have not been arranged for patients who have had sepsis but have not been in the ICU? If not, why not? If so, how will you ensure that these sepsis patients receive the aftercare they need from now on? For example, are you prepared to set up a post-infectious expertise center so that sepsis patients, among other things, do not have to go from one specialist to another? If not, why not? Are you aware that the WHO states that national policies with an integrated approach are needed in the areas of infection, antimicrobial resistance and sepsis?[5] If not, why not? If so, how will you follow up on this? When will you come up with such a national approach, which will at least include sepsis registration, stimulation of research and sepsis awareness?

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2023-10-17 13:18:59
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