The Met Office have issued an AMBER cold weather health alert from 12pm on Thursday 2 January 2025 until 12pm on Wednesday 8 January 2025 across London. 

This means the weather is likely to have significant impacts on health and social care services, including:

• a rise in deaths, particularly among those aged 65 and over or with health conditions. You may also see impacts on younger age groups
• a likely increase in demand for health services
• temperatures inside places like hospitals, care homes, and clinics dropping below the levels recommend for assessing health risks 
• challenges keeping indoor temperatures at the recommended 18C leading to more risk to vulnerable people
• staffing issues due to external factors (such as travel delays)
• other sectors starting to observe impacts (such as transport and energy)

You can download the Severe Adverse Weather and Health plan, for reference the cold weather action cards are available from page 77. 

More details can be found here.