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MACC Hub Webinar Series #4: Climate Ready Healthcare Systems – our biggest challenge?
The MACC Hub invites attendees to join a conversation on one of the biggest challenges in our changing climate – how to create climate ready healthcare systems that support the wellbeing of all people and places?
Heatwaves, hospitals and health system resilience in England: a qualitative assessment of frontline perspectives from the hot summer of 2019
This study shows how the 2019 heatwave disrupted hospital care in England, highlighting infrastructure weaknesses, staff awareness gaps, and competing priorities, and calls for stronger adaptation planning and investment to build health system resilience to extreme heat.
UK Hot Weather Health Plan (Society for Acute Medicine)
This document provides practical guidance for UK acute care clinicians to prepare for and manage the health impacts of extreme heat, focusing on protecting vulnerable patients, adapting clinical practice, and maintaining safe hospital environments during heatwaves.
Developing adaptation capability of the NHS in England – a pilot project
A project to develop adaptation capability within the NHS was carried out in 2024 by two independent organisations in the UK and three NHS organisations in the north of England. This article provides an overview of the project as a whole and what it hopes to achieve.
Including Adaptation in your Green Plan – adaptation plan template and guidance for the NHS
This article provides an introduction to writing a climate change adaptation plan and reporting on adaptation in the NHS as context for two documents that can be found in the resource section: a downloadable Adaptation Plan Template, and a guide for including adaptation in your Green Plan and other regulatory guidance related to adaptation in the NHS.