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Information on how to stay safe in hot weather, including how to keep your home cool.
Extreme heat presents a number of risks to health. This guidance helps professionals and the public address those risks.
This information aims to assist professionals in protecting vulnerable people from the health impacts of severe heat in England.
Health advice for those planning events and mass gatherings during periods of hot weather in England.
Older adults and those with health conditions are at risk of mortality during heatwaves. The research explores the experience of those who care for them.
Heat-Health Alert (HHA) action cards summarise suggested actions to be taken by different professional bodies and organisations in the event of extreme heat.
How to care for animals on farms and at market in severe hot or cold weather, floods or drought.
Climate change is happening and is due to human activities; along with warming, many other changes are occurring such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels and more frequent floods, droughts and heatwaves.
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