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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.
This page advises social care managers on how to reduce the risks of hot weather to the health of people they provide care for.
The latest heat-health alert (HHA) issued by UKHSA and the Met Office for all regions of England.
This Heat-Health Alert action card summarises the suggested actions that the voluntary and community sector should consider at each Heat-Health Alert level.
UKHSA has issued its first amber heat-health alert of 2026, warning of increased risk to vulnerable people from high temperatures in the coming days.
The hottest day ever recorded in the UK occurred in 2019. We look at how the warm summers has impacted on the number of deaths.
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