Visits to the heat exhaustion advice webpage on the NHS website have almost tripled in the past few days as temperatures surge in England. The UK recorded its hottest day of the year so far on Tuesday and yellow heat health alerts are in place for millions of people until Friday. Analysis by NHS England, which […]
NHS staff managed a record number of A&E attendances for any June and more than half a million emergency admissions, new figures show today. Hospitals reported that they dealt with more than 2.29 million attendances to their A&E departments and over half a million emergency admissions (536,884) – more than any other June. Last month […]
Visits to heat exhaustion advice on the NHS website have more than doubled in the past 48 hours as temperatures surge in England. The warm weather comes at the same time as the NHS is facing major disruption with junior doctors launching industrial action from 7am tomorrow for five days. (7am Thursday 27 June until […]
The NHS will face major disruption this week as junior doctors launch five days of industrial action, with services already under increasing pressure, England’s top doctor has warned today. With Yellow Heat Health Alerts for many parts of the country, the NHS is urging the public to use services as they normally would if they […]
The number of hay fever sufferers searching for NHS advice has more than doubled in the past week as temperatures rise across England. The NHS website has received an average of 11,736 visits a day since Monday compared to a daily average of 4,749 visits at the weekend – an increase of 147%. Visits to […]
Rising temperatures have led to a surge in people seeking heat exhaustion advice from the NHS website this week – with visits peaking at one every eight seconds on Thursday. Figures released by NHS England, which runs the NHS website, show there were 32,130 visits to the health advice page on heat exhaustion and heatstroke […]
Visits to the heat exhaustion section of the NHS website have more than tripled in the past week – averaging one visit every six seconds. Figures released by NHS England, which runs the NHS website, show there were 109,096 visits to the health advice page on heat exhaustion and heatstroke in the last seven days […]
The most senior doctor in the NHS has asked the public to use its services wisely and play their part over the coming days by being sensible in the hot weather as a three-day junior doctor walkout is set to begin. NHS medical director Professor Sir Stephen Powis said: “The NHS is facing significant disruption […]
The number of hay fever sufferers seeking advice from the NHS website has more than tripled – reaching 122,650 visits last week. Analysis by NHS England, which runs the NHS website, found weekly visits to the hay fever page have increased by 252% in the past five weeks from 34,878 visits during the first week of […]
Issued at 8.01am on Tuesday 16 August 2022 Temperatures are not expected to reach heatwave threshold values until further notice. Hot weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients. Find out more about how to cope in hot weather. You can find the government Heatwave plan for England here. More details about the weather […]