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Sepsis: a personal story

5 mins read Children's dentistry
Dental nurse Gemma Akinade lost her fiancé to this life-threatening condition 18 months ago. Here, she explains what teams can do to raise awareness of sepsis to prevent further unnecessary deaths

On 29 November 2017, Jesse Nixon died of sepsis. He had been fit and healthy and his death came suddenly and shockingly. He left behind his devastated fiancee Gemma Akinade and their three children – Kemi, who was 14, Marcel, aged one, and Jessica who was just five months.

Gemma is a dental nurse and senior oral health practitioner working with HENRY, a charity that supports families to provide the best possible start in life for young children in the London borough of Waltham Forest.

Here, she outline why dental teams need to collaborate to raise awareness of this life-threatening condition that kills more people in the UK each year than bowel, breast and prostate cancer combined.

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