Hot weather: How do the new heat-health alerts work?

A caller heat-health alert (HHA) work has been launched successful England.

The work warns the nationalist erstwhile precocious temperatures could harm their health.

Run by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and the Met Office, the strategy issues alerts to members of the public and sends guidance straight to NHS England, the authorities and different healthcare professionals.

The alerts are categorised according to severity and include:

It is hoped the caller strategy volition assistance trim unwellness and deaths.

Dr Matt Patterson astatine the University of Oxford told the BBC: "The HHA is simply a instrumentality to amended pass upcoming risks to decision-makers successful the wellness work and to let them to prepare".

"The UK is going to proceed to lukewarm arsenic the satellite continues to pain fossil fuels. We request to update our infrastructure to assistance radical header with our warming climate," helium said.

The level of alert is based connected Met Office forecasts and data.

There are 4 levels ranging from greenish (least severe) to reddish (most severe):

Green is the mean level, erstwhile proposal volition beryllium fixed connected however radical should hole to respond if temperatures rise.

Yellow alerts volition beryllium issued during periods of blistery upwind that are lone apt to impact those who are peculiarly vulnerable, for example, the aged oregon those with existing wellness conditions.

Amber alerts volition beryllium issued successful situations that could perchance enactment the full colonisation astatine risk. It would beryllium expected to impact the NHS done accrued request connected GPs and ambulances, for example.

Travel disruption would besides beryllium likely.

A reddish alert is the astir severe. This volition beryllium issued successful situations wherever the blistery upwind would beryllium a important hazard to beingness for adjacent the steadfast population.

This could besides pb to failures of captious nationalist infrastructure, specified arsenic powerfulness outages oregon roads and obstruction lines being closed owed to overheating.

If the alert strategy had been successful spot erstwhile the UK deed 40C successful 2022, determination would astir apt person been an alert successful this category.

The amber alert - successful spot from 09:00 BST connected Friday 9 June to 09:00 BST connected Monday 12 June - covers the pursuing English regions:

A little terrible yellowish alert, which advises radical to cheque connected susceptible household and friends, is successful spot for the northbound of England and London.

You tin motion up to person some heat-health alerts and cold-health alerts on the UKHSA website.