Visits to heat exhaustion advice surge

Visits to the heat exhaustion advice on the NHS website increased by 198 percent as temperatures rose. There were 31,524 visits to the heat exhaustion and heatstroke web page in the 48 hours since a heat-health alert was introduced across most of England at midday on Wednesday last week, compared to 10,578 visits on Monday and Tuesday. Analysis by NHS England, which runs the nhs.uk website, found that visits peaked after the alert was upgraded to an amber status across the whole of England at midday on Thursday, with 20,048 visits in 24 hours.