As Britain's summers grow hotter, the country's hospitals — built for a cooler, quieter climate — are revealing a quiet institutional failure. Last month, when temperatures reached 96 degrees, one of the nation's largest hospitals became a place of compounding suffering rather than healing, exposing a gap between the infrastructure the NHS inherited and the climate it now must navigate. Experts warn that what unfolded is not an anomaly but a rehearsal — and that without urgent, systemic investment, the most vulnerable will continue to bear the cost of a future that arrived ahead of any plan to
Britain's Hospitals Unprepared for Extreme Heat as Climate Shifts
Patients and healthcare workers experienced dangerous heat exposure in hospital settings, compromising care quality and worker safety.