OXFORD University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has said it is working to improve on the number of sepsis patients who receive antibiotics within the first hour.
Between April 2017 and March 18 doctors at the trust administered antibiotic treatment to 65 per cent of patients within an hour of the disease being identified.
However, in a recent report revealed hospital leaders have now set a target to treat 90 per cent of sepsis patients within the first hour.
A new sepsis escalation strategy is now being piloted including a dedicated sepsis trolley to speed up treatment in the Emergency Department, as well as enhanced staff training.
Sepsis is a rare complication from an infection which can lead to multiple organ failure if not treated quickly.
Yesterday it was revealed that sepsis deaths recorded in England's hospitals have risen by more than a third in two years.
According to figures released to the BBC, in the year ending April 2017, there were 15,722 deaths in hospital or within 30 days of discharge.
Professor Sir Brian Jarman director of the Dr Foster research unit at Imperial College in London, who compiled the data said staff shortages and overcrowding on wards were partly to blame, while NHS England bosses said more conditions were being classed as sepsis than before.
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