Adverse Weather and Health Plan

Adverse Weather and Health Plan
Protecting health from weather related
harm
2024 to 2025 – second edition

Adverse Weather Health Plan
Contents
1. List of abbreviations ................................................................................................................... 5
2. Executive summary .................................................................................................................... 8
3. Strategy .................................................................................................................................... 10
3.1 Goals .................................................................................................................................. 10
3.2 Principles ............................................................................................................................ 10
3.3 Objectives ........................................................................................................................... 11
4. Governance ............................................................................................................................. 12
4.1 Management and governance of the AWHP ...................................................................... 12
5. Adverse Weather and Health Plan implementation .................................................................. 14
5.1 The Plan ............................................................................................................................. 15
5.2 Supporting evidence ........................................................................................................... 16
5.3 Guidance ............................................................................................................................ 17
5.4 Weather Health Alerts......................................................................................................... 18
6. Action areas to improve local planning ..................................................................................... 19
6.1 Service delivery .................................................................................................................. 20
6.1.1 Guidance implementation ......................................................................................................... 20
6.2 Capacity building ................................................................................................................ 20
6.2.1 Training materials ..................................................................................................................... 20
6.2.2 UKHSA operational webinars ................................................................................................... 21
6.2.3 Making Every Contact Count programme (MECC) .................................................................... 21
6.2.4 All Our Health eLearning sessions – climate change module .................................................... 21
6.3 Organisational arrangements .............................................................................................. 21
6.3.1 Emergency Preparedness Resilience Response (EPRR) arrangements ................................... 21
6.3.2 Exercises.................................................................................................................................. 22
6.4 Communication ................................................................................................................... 22
6.4.1 Communications materials ....................................................................................................... 22
6.4.2 Communications toolkit ............................................................................................................. 22
6.4.3 Focus groups and customer insights......................................................................................... 23
6.4.4 Weather Ready campaign ........................................................................................................ 24
6.4.5 Media engagement ................................................................................................................... 24
6.5 Risk management ............................................................................................................... 24
6.5.1 Horizon scanning ...................................................................................................................... 24
6.5.2 National Security Risk Assessment (NSRA) ............................................................................. 24
6.5.3 National Risk Register (NRR) ................................................................................................... 25
6.5.4 Local risk assessment and community risk registers ................................................................. 25
6.5.5 Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC) ................................................................ 25
6.6 Early warning systems ........................................................................................................ 25
6.6.1 Weather Health Alerts .............................................................................................................. 25
6.6.2 Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS) ............................................. 26
6.6.3 Flood Guidance Statement ....................................................................................................... 26
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