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Northern Ireland's Public Health Agency has brought the autumn flu and COVID-19 vaccination programmes forward to 18 September 2023 as a precaution after the BA.2.86 variant was first detected in the…
Research published in the journal Heart and presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress found that the nearest 24/7 accessible defibrillator is on average a round trip of over a mile in…
NHS England has launched a campaign, with an advert running from this week, urging people to call 999 at the early signs of a heart attack, as hospital admissions return to pre-pandemic levels.
NHS England has announced winter preparations including care traffic control centres in every area, over 800 new ambulances, 5,000 more hospital beds and expanded respiratory hubs.
The Government has confirmed that every state-funded school in England now has a defibrillator, after a £19 million rollout delivered 20,376 devices to 17,862 schools.
The National Water Safety Forum marked World Drowning Prevention Day on 25 July 2023 by urging the public to learn its Call, Tell, Throw rescue guide and to stay out of the water when helping someone…
SSEN Distribution has put additional teams on standby after its weather model forecast wind gusts of up to 50mph from Saturday lunchtime into the early evening, with possible interruptions to power…
The Child Accident Prevention Trust reported that child bath drownings in England rose from 4 in 2019-20 to 12 in 2021-22 and urged parents to keep babies within arm's reach in water.
Resuscitation Council UK has published a free baby and child CPR book, Aaron's Heart, to help parents and caregivers learn the basics of CPR for babies and children.
The National Fire Chiefs Council and Material Focus have launched a public safety film, Stop Battery Fires, for local authorities to share, and called for councils to join a survey on battery fires in…
SSEN Distribution has put additional teams in place ahead of forecast lightning on Saturday 8 July 2023 that could bring some interruptions to power supplies across its network area.
The National Fire Chiefs Council has issued fire safety advice on e-bikes and e-scooters after an e-bike fire in Cambridgeshire killed a mother and two children.
The MHRA launched a safety campaign on 19 June 2023, during World Allergy Week, to raise awareness of anaphylaxis and advise on the use of adrenaline auto-injectors.
Junior doctors in England began a 72-hour strike at 7am on Wednesday, with NHS England warning of enormous disruption to routine care and thousands of procedures already postponed.
SSEN Distribution has warned of heavy rain and lightning across the north of Scotland and cancelled all major planned outages there as a precaution, with extra teams in place to deal with faults.
London Ambulance Service took 7,751 999 calls on Monday 12 June 2023, its busiest day since New Year's Eve 2021, and moved to its highest level of response as breathing difficulty cases more than…
The UK Health Security Agency issued a Heat Health Alert for England on 8 June 2023 ahead of the first sustained hot spell of the year, with those over 65 or with pre-existing conditions most…
Research presented at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference found public access defibrillators were used in only 132 of 1302 cardiac arrests in the East of England where a device was…
The UK Health Security Agency has updated its England-only Adverse Weather Alerting service, run with the Met Office, to a colour coded system using green, yellow, amber and red levels instead of…
The UK Health Security Agency says its Weather-Health Alert system was updated in June 2023, replacing fixed temperature thresholds with a risk assessment that weighs duration, regions affected and…