Dr. Ron DanielsShort Bio for chairsRon Daniels is a full time NHS Consultant in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia, based in Birmingham. He’s also Chief Executive of the UK Sepsis Trust and the Global Sepsis Alliance. In 2016 he was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to patients.
BiographyDr. Ron Daniels BEM is a Consultant in Critical Care at Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, England. He’s a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Royal College of Anaesthetists and Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.
Ron is Chief Executive of the Global Sepsis Alliance, having been instrumental in bringing World Sepsis Day and the Chairman’s concept of the World Sepsis Declaration to fruition.
He is Chief Executive of the United Kingdom Sepsis Trust, a registered charity, in which capacity he provides in addition to his public duties, clinical advice to NHS England, the Department of Health and to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. He has lobbied the United Kingdom Government, together with devolved governments in Scotland and Wales over several years, culminating in an announcement by the Secretary of State for Health of a resourced suite of measures to transform sepsis care across the UK.
Ron and his team developed both the ‘Sepsis Six’ care bundle, now in use in 12 countries, and the clinical concept of ‘Red Flag Sepsis’. Both are endorsed and recommended by the UK Royal Colleges and by NHS England. Ron’s organisation has been instrumental in driving national change, including the implementation of a national commissioning lever and reports from the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD), the All Party Parliamentary Group on Sepsis and the NHS Cross System Programme Board on Sepsis together with the forthcoming NICE guideline. He has recently developed a suite of educational materials and clinical toolkits in support of improvement, in collaboration with the Royal Colleges and NHS England, and, with over 40 national television appearances, is established as a ‘go to’ person for media coverage of sepsis stories in the UK.
Outline of typical sessionSepsis is responsible for at least 44,000 deaths annually in the UK, and accounts for 30-50% of episodes of inpatient deterioration. Globally, it accounts for an estimated 6-8 million deaths, many of whom are in neonates and infants. Despite internationally recognized guidelines being endorsed by relevant professional bodies, standards of care are achieved in fewer than 20% of cases in developed countries.
Evidence in support of basic elements of care- antibiotics and fluid challenges- suggests that they are more effective and their delivery more time critical than interventions in acute coronary syndrome. This session will explore potential conflict with strategies to ensure antimicrobial stewardship and preservation, and underline the commonality of messages. The roles of acute hospitals, the community, primary care and the prehospital environment will be explored to aid understanding and planning of a system-wide response. The session will also outline national and global strategies to embed sepsis as a clinical priority for health systems, discuss the new international consensus definitions of sepsis released in February 2016 and discuss the challenges they present. It will outline the implications of the recently published NICE Clinical Guideline in the context of these definitions, and the associated forthcoming Quality Standard.
Objectives:To equip attendee with the skills and knowledge to:
- Understand state of the art sepsis care from a systems perspective
- Apply local interpretation to varying definitions sets for sepsis in line with national strategy
- Describe the scale of the impact of sepsis includingthe potential impact of heightened public awareness
