Plans must be put in place before heatwaves – not cobbled together during them | Letters
Health professionals across Europe are calling for an EU climate and health strategy, write Mark Wilson and Dr Paul De Raeve; plus a letter from Nadine HendersonYou report on hospitals declaring critical incidents as their systems fail in the heat (Hospitals in England declare critical incidents as machines and IT fail in heat, 25 June). This is a crisis that health professionals saw coming.It is not England’s alone. During June’s record-breaking European heatwave, France raised its health system to the highest…
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