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Visits to the NHS website's heat exhaustion advice page rose 169% over 29 and 30 July compared with the previous weekend, peaking at 11,986 visits on Tuesday as yellow heat health alerts covered…
The Met Office has issued a Yellow weather warning with temperatures in London expected to reach 32 degrees this week, and London Ambulance Service has asked the public to take care in the heat.
London Ambulance Service analysis has found dozens of London neighbourhoods are "defibrillator deserts" with little or no access to a defibrillator, as a charity campaign seeks to place more devices…
NHS Blood and Transplant has issued a national Amber Alert asking hospitals to restrict the use of O type blood to essential cases, after a cyber attack and a summer fall in donations increased…
A faulty antivirus software update in July 2024 grounded aircraft, froze bank transactions and forced hospitals to cancel procedures, cited as an example of how a single technical failure can spread…
A global IT outage disrupted NHS services across London on 19 July 2024, mainly in GP practices, with NHS London advising patients to attend appointments as usual and use NHS 111 for urgent help.
NHS England London reports that more than 7,000 outpatient appointments and over 1,500 elective procedures have been postponed at two south east London trusts since the 3 June ransomware attack on…
The National Cyber Security Centre said organisations affected by the global IT outage on Friday 19 July 2024 should apply vendor mitigations, and warned of an increase in related phishing.
Natural Resources Wales brought its new Flood Warning Information Services for Wales into use on 17 July 2024, replacing the previous England and Wales system at a cost of £5m.
NHS England London has published a fifth weekly update on the clinical impact of the Synnovis ransomware attack, showing 1,286 acute outpatient appointments and 100 elective procedures postponed in…
Northern Gas Networks attended the YO16 4 area of Bridlington on 11 July 2024 after a loss of gas supply to about 320 properties, isolating supplies while working to restore gas.
The government has launched a website at prepare.campaign.gov.uk encouraging people in England to think about how they would respond to risks including floods, fires and power cuts.
NHS England's fourth weekly update records 4,913 acute outpatient appointments and 1,391 elective procedures postponed at two London trusts since the 3 June ransomware attack on Synnovis.
NHS Blood and Transplant has asked O Positive and O Negative donors to book appointments at 25 NHS Blood Donor Centres in England to rebuild O type stocks after the June ransomware attack on Synnovis.
The 2025 National Risk Register cites the CrowdStrike IT outage as evidence of how technology failure can affect services essential to daily life, alongside 89 risks across nine themes.
Get Safe Online has warned individuals and small businesses about scams exploiting the global Microsoft outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike software update, including fake tech support calls and…
A July 2024 fire risk assessment found the fire suppression system at North Hyde 275kV substation was still out of service, a review has said, months before a fire there cut power to more than 70,000…
Research released by the National Water Safety Forum links higher UK air temperatures to sharp rises in accidental drowning, with a fivefold increase in risk on days averaging 25°C or above.
Junior doctors in England began five days of strike action at 7am on 27 June, running until 7am on 2 July, as yellow heat health alerts cover most of the country.
East Midlands Ambulance Service has advised residents and holidaymakers to take steps to stay healthy after the Met Office issued a Yellow heat alert for the East Midlands in late June 2024.