These heat-specific insights and actions are tailored for health and social care providers and have been derived from the Weather-Health Alerting system. This is part of the alerts and warnings section of the hazard: heat.

These Heat-Health Alert (HHA) action cards summarise the suggested actions that providers of health or social care settings should consider to prepare for and respond to each HHA alert type. These are primarily intended for managers working in:

• hospitals
• social care, care homes and other residential settings
• organisations providing primary or community health services operating from fixed sites such as GP surgeries
• organisations delivering care to people in their homes

Key resources for Heat-Health Alerting (HHA) system:

• Summary – HHA action cards for health and social care providers
  • Action card for health and social care providers
  • Summary action card for services delivering care to people in their homes
  • Summary action card for hospitals and healthcare settings in the community
  • Summary action card for care homes and other adult social care residential settings

More roles:

• HHA system – voluntary and community sector (action cards)
• HHA system – commissioners (action cards)
• HHA system – national government (action cards)

More content:

• Weather-Health Alerting system
• Weather-Health Alerting system user guide (pdf)

Find out more here.