Issued at: 9:01am on Tuesday 29 December 2020 There is a 90% probability of severe cold weather/icy conditions/heavy snow between 9am on Tuesday 29 December and 9am on Friday 1 January in parts of England. This weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services. Find out more about staying […]
Current alert level: Level 2 – Alert and Readiness Forecast Issued on Monday, 28 November 2016 at 08:53 There is an 80 % probability of severe cold weather between 2100 on Monday 28 Nov and 1500 on Friday 02 Dec in parts of England. More details about the weather alert are available on the MET […]
Issued at 09:30am on Wednesday 27 December 2017 There is a 90% probability of severe cold weather/icy conditions/heavy snow between 0800 on Wednesday 27 Dec and 0900 on Saturday 30 Dec in parts of England. This weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services. This weather could increase […]
Current alert level: Level 2 – Alert and Readiness There is a 60% probability of heavy snow between 1100 on Tuesday 08 Nov and 1200 on Wednesday 09 Nov in parts of England. More details about the weather alert are available on the MET Office website.
The NHS has today issued a call for 100,000 people to sign a pledge saying they will look in on an elderly friend or neighbour this winter. Each winter thousands of people in England die as a result of cold weather. Most are over 75 and most of these deaths could be avoided. Hundreds of […]
There is a 90% probability of severe cold weather/icy conditions between 3pm on Wednesday 8 February and 9am on Monday 13 February in parts of England. Cold weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services. Find out more about staying well this winter. More details about the weather alert […]
A sickness surveillance system will help the NHS plan for surges in demand this winter by tracking outbreaks of norovirus, which causes vomiting and diarrhoea, and other illness around the country. Data gathered by Public Health England will be used by NHS England operational monitoring teams to study winter trends and to help give early […]
New NHS data covering the Christmas and New Year period shows flu cases have continued to skyrocket, with over 5,000 patients hospitalised with the virus at the end of last week. Last week (w/e 29 Dec) there were an average of 4,469 patients with flu in hospital each day – almost 3.5 times higher than […]