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The 2023 Health Effects of Climate Change (HECC) report highlights how climate change intensifies and increases the frequency of extreme weather. This page provides key takeaways from the HECC report, specifically on the hazard: heat.
The Mining Remediation Authority works with others to unlock the heat within historical coal mine networks to transform the homes and workplaces of the future.
This Heat-Health Alert action card summarises the suggested actions that providers of health or social care should consider at each Heat-Health Alert level.
This Heat-Health Alert action card summarises the suggested actions that commissioners should consider at each Heat-Health Alert level.
The Heat-Health Alerting system is part of the Weather-Health Alerting system, which is operated by UKHSA in partnership with the Met Office. This is part of the alerts and warnings section of the hazard: heat.
This page advises those with responsibilities for people currently sleeping rough. This includes local authority teams for emergency preparedness, public health and rough sleeping, as well as non-governmental organisations, including those providing temporary accommodation or street-based support.
Advice for those responsible for people sleeping rough on how to reduce the risks of hot weather to the health of people they provide care for. This includes local authority teams for emergency preparedness, public health as well as non-governmental...
This page summarises Chapter 2 of the Health Effects of Climate Change (HECC) report with a focus on the impact of heat on temperature and mortality. This is part of the science and stats section for the hazard: heat.
Heat presents a number of risks to health. Information and guidance to help understand the risks of heat and consider actions to protect health.
The Local Authority Risk and Adaptation (LARA) Toolkit: Heat Edition is designed to help assess heat-related health risks and plan actions to protect health.
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