UK Public Services Urged to Prepare for Annual Heatwaves Amid Ongoing Struggles
Public services across the UK, including the NHS, transport, and farming sectors, are facing significant challenges in adapting to increasingly frequent and intense heatwaves. Millions of citizens are also struggling to cope in 'heat trap' homes, with calls now for the NHS to prepare for annual heatwaves with the same urgency as winter.
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Adapting to global heating: which UK public services are struggling in hot weather?
As NHS told to prepare for extreme weather, strain also felt in other areas including transport and farming NHS must prepare for annual summer heat pressures, says Yvette Cooper The NHS has been told it must become more resilient to increasingly frequent heatwaves supercharged by the climate crisis, as the UK government puts adaptation to extreme heat high on its agenda. But what other public services are already feeling the strain? Continue reading...
By Fiona Harvey Environment editor
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Yvette Cooper called on the public to look out for the elderly and other individuals vulnerable to the extreme heat
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