General Practitioners provide continuity of care to patients surviving sepsis. Better communication at the ICU-GP interface and training in management of long-term complications of sepsis may be helpful to improve sepsis aftercare.

14 General Practitioners (GPs) who had participated in a structured sepsis aftercare programme in primary care.

Themes identified in sepsis aftercare were: continuity of care and good relationship with patients, GP’s experiences during their patient’s critical illness and impact of persisting symptoms.

An outreach education as part of the intervention was considered by the GPs to be acceptable, helpful to improve knowledge of the management of postintensive care complications and useful for sepsis aftercare in daily practice.

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