With extreme weather becoming increasingly common, we need urgent action to protect lives and our NHS.

That’s why we’ve called on the Government to create new community cooling hubs such as gyms, leisure centres, and libraries to provide relief from extreme heat.

This must go alongside other measures, such as providing free insulation and heat pumps for low income households, so they can keep their homes cool in summer and warm in winter.

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Please share our cool hubs policy with your friends and family to help protect vulnerable people in the heat:

We also need to urgently heatproof the NHS and care system - our research shows that almost 500 people died in care homes and over 470 died in hospitals from excessive heat last year.

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It’s shocking that heat is killing people in the places they should be safest.

We’re calling for air conditioning or cooling heat pumps to be a legal requirement in care homes and for an NHS taskforce to be set up to provide cool wards in hospitals to prevent further unnecessary deaths.

As heatwaves become more common, we must continue to take global warming seriously, tackling emissions and adapting to higher temperatures. While the Conservatives and Reform call for abandoning our climate commitments, we must re-double our efforts to tackle the climate emergency.

With emergency healthcare services stretched, our Freedom of Information request found that 2.7 million people made their own way to A&E last year, rather than waiting for an ambulance - an increase of 340,000, or 14%, since 2019. Over a quarter of a million of these people needed very urgent medical attention.

As wait times for ambulances spiral, people are losing faith they’ll get the rapid care they need, putting millions at risk.

We’ve proposed a new emergency fund for ambulance trusts to reopen community ambulance stations and to launch a campaign to recruit, train, and retain paramedics and ambulance staff.

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