Guidance

Adverse Weather and Health Plan

皇冠体育app Adverse Weather and Health Plan (AWHP) aims to protect individuals and communities from the health effects of adverse weather and to build community resilience.

Applies to England

Summary

皇冠体育app AWHP is supports local and national organisations to prepare, build and respond to future adverse weather events. It protects lives and promotes health and wellbeing in order to:

  • prevent the increase in years of life lost due to adverse weather events
  • prevent mortality due to adverse weather events
  • prevent morbidity due to adverse weather events
  • reduce the use of healthcare services due to adverse weather events

皇冠体育app Plan builds on the previous聽Heatwave Plan for England聽and the聽Cold Weather Plan for England.


皇冠体育app 4 components of the plan

Figure 1. 皇冠体育app 4 components of the AWHP

皇冠体育app AWHP programme of work contains:

  • the plan itself
  • the supporting evidence document (SED) published in parallel, which is a summary of the scientific evidence supporting the Plan
  • the guidance and support materials, available in GOV.UK and listed in Appendices 2 to 4 (Appendix 2 (heat), Appendix 3 (cold), Appendix 4 (flood and drought)
  • the Weather-Health Alerting (WHA) system (heat and cold), developed in collaboration with the Met Office

皇冠体育app plan seeks to address nine action areas. Local organisations and partnerships can use these to develop local health and resilience plans outlining how they will protect their local populations from the health impacts of adverse weather events.

  1. Service delivery
  2. Capacity building 鈥�
  3. Organisation arrangements鈥�
  4. Communication 鈥�
  5. Risk management 鈥�
  6. Early warning systems
  7. Research and data analysis鈥�
  8. Quality assurance
  9. Policy development and accountability

Updates to this page

Published 19 December 2024

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