The weather warning for Yorkshire has been increased to Amber

Yorkshire and The Humber AMBER Significant impacts are probable across the health and social care sector due to the high temperatures, including: observed increase in mortality across the population likely, particularly in the 65+ age group or those with health conditions, but impacts may also be seen in younger age groups; increased demand for remote health care services likely; internal temperatures in care settings (hospitals and care homes) may exceed recommended threshold for clinical risk assessment; impact on ability of services to be delivered due to heat effects on workforce possible and many indoor environments likely to be overheating, risk to vulnerable people living independently in community as well as in care settings; medicines management issues; staffing issues due to external factors (e.g. transport); cross system demand for temporary AC capacity being exceeded possible and other sectors starting to be observe impacts (e.g. travel delays).

Nasal Flu Vaccine information

NHS England have sent some text messages to the parents of children under 3 who are eligible for the Nasal flu vaccine.

Please be aware we are not currently booking anyone in for flu including children as our vaccine supply has not been delivered yet.

We will contact parents as soon as we know more.

Kind Regards

Swallownest Health Centre

Weather Warning – 04/09/2023

YELLOW WEATHER WARNING -

Minor impacts are probable across the health and social care sector, including: increased use of healthcare services by the vulnerable population; increase in risk of mortality amongst vulnerable individuals and increased potential for indoor environments to become very warm.