{"id":215956,"date":"2025-06-26T13:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/215956\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T13:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:19:10","slug":"heat-health-alert-for-west-midlands-as-government-issues-five-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/215956\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat health alert for West Midlands as Government issues five warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Significant impacts are possible across the health and social care services due to the high temperatures heading above 30C\"Spectacular:Pure Hollywood! The view from the 18th floor terrace of 103 Colmore Row as the sun rises in between Bank House, Cherry Street (left) and the Rotunda (right) on the morning of Wednesday, February 23, 2022(Image: Nick Wilkinson \/ BirminghamLive )<\/p>\n

A five-day heat health alert has been issued for the West Midlands – amid five warnings which could affect society.<\/p>\n

Significant impacts are possible across health and social care services due to forecast high temperatures which could reach above 31C on Monday, June 30.<\/p>\n

The yellow weather warning for the region was issued by the Government’s UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).<\/p>\n

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It comes into effect at noon tomorrow, Friday, June 27 and will last until 6pm on Tuesday, July 1.<\/p>\n

Five warnings are in place:<\/p>\n

1) A rise in deaths, particularly among those aged 65 and over or with health conditions. There may also be impacts on younger age groups<\/p>\n

2) A likely increase in demand for health service<\/p>\n

3) Internal temperatures in care settings (hospitals and care homes) may exceed the recommended threshold for clinical risk assessment<\/p>\n

4) The heat affecting the ability of the workforce to deliver services<\/p>\n

5) Indoor environments overheating increasing the risk to vulnerable people living independently in community and care settings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Significant impacts are possible across the health and social care services due to the high temperatures heading above…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,497,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-215956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-weather","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114749870325482271","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}