The trial is part of today's Modern Service Framework for sepsis, one of several new strategies the NHS is publishing to improve patient outcomes for major conditions.

The strategies are being published alongside a new Quality Strategy that aims to improve the safety, effectiveness and experience of care across all NHS settings.

Minister for patient safety Preet Gill said: ‘This new framework represents an important step forward in improving how we identify and respond to sepsis, using innovation and technology to support clinicians and help save lives.

‘Alongside the new Quality Strategy published today, we are building an NHS that puts safety, learning and improvement at its heart embracing innovation while keeping patients at the centre of everything we do.'

The devices tested by the NHS will monitor people's vital signs at home including their blood pressure and heart rate and will automatically flag that a person's condition has deteriorated and they need to be tested for sepsis.

NHS figures show there were more than 118,000 emergency admissions for sepsis in 2024/25.

For every hour of delayed treatment, the risk of death from sepsis increases by up to 8%.