Severe impacts are expected across health and social care services due to the high temperatures, including:

• increased risk to life across the whole population, with significant impacts on older people
• significantly increased demand on all health and social care services
• the heat affecting the ability of the workforce to deliver services
• hot indoor environments making provision of care challenging and national critical infrastructure failures, such as generators and power outages
• water‑related incidents may increase, including risks from cold‑water shock and drowning

Information on update: Area expanded across east Wales and much of the Midlands. Some updates to the 'further details' too. Following very warm weather on Sunday, very high temperatures, accompanied by high humidity, are expected on Monday and especially Tuesday and will likely bring widespread impacts to people and infrastructure. In addition to high daytime maxima, temperatures overnight will remain very warm, especially in larger urban areas. Temperatures are likely to reach the low to mid-30s Celsius in places on Monday and into the mid-30s Celsius more widely on Tuesday. Some places, particularly in urban areas, may see temperatures remain above 20 Celsius overnight. The very high temperatures are likely to continue across parts of central and southern Britain further on into next week, albeit with some uncertainty in the extent and magnitude of this heat. For further details see https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings Tags: Extreme high temperature https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings