NHS staff told to treat sepsis patients within an hour

Of the 260,000 people in the UK who develop sepsis each year, 40% do not see a senior doctor fast enough it has emerged, as NHS staff are told to treat those suffering with the condition within an hour.
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In September 2015 my hubby had to rush me to A&E at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital UK about 1am. after my left leg/foot from just below the knee had swollen to the point it was sheer agony like I'd never felt before. It was purple and all kinds of other colours and I was literally crying with it. At the time I was working 14 hours a day 7 days a week so was mentally and physically exhausted, we put the condition down to that. Once an initial diagnosis was given I was then put in a cubicle and put on drips and tablets and was there for about 7 hours. I was quiet and said please and thank you etc. and only time I had to ask a nurse for anything was so I could limp to the toilet. Somewhere around 8am. I was then sent to a ward. While in the cubicle the doctor told me I had sepsis and if they couldn't catch it within the next 48 hours it would literally kill me. I was in the ward for a week and at absolutely all times from the second we got into A&E to the second I left I was treated absolutely brilliantly by nurses, doctors, cleaners etc. Within that first 48 hours of knowing I might actually die there and then I laughed with a doctor saying 'its only death, there's far worse things I could get, like fleas!' It made the doctor laugh and he said he wishes all his patients had my humour! THANK YOU to the hospital for saving my life.