FOI Reference: FOI-2026-3758
You asked
I am writing to request under the FOI Act the number of 1a (immediate cause of death) linked to sepsis and/or infection) of patients with recorded cancer (1b) on death records.
If I could please have this information broken down from (2020-2025) in an excel spreadsheet format?
We said
Thank you for your request.
We do not have any publicly available data for deaths due to sepsis where cancer was mentioned on the death certificate. We can, however, create a custom output. Information on the number of deaths registered due to sepsis where cancer is mentioned on the death certificate, in England and Wales; 2020 to 2025, along with other special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are available to order. Such services are subject to legal frameworks, resources and agreement of costs. If you would like to request this bespoke dataset, please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk to discuss your enquiry further. Please note, there will be a charge for this work which would be subject to our charging policy.
As this information is reasonably accessible via another route, even if only accessible on payment, Section 21(2)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies.
We have produced a dataset under our User Requested Data service (URD) for Deaths due to and involving sepsis, England, registered between 2010 and 2025 which you may find of interest.