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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the (a) date and (b) place of every coroner's inquest that established heat as a cause of death for service personnel since 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the (a) date and (b) place of every coroner's inquest that established heat as a cause of death for service personnel since 2013.
From 1 January 2013 to 13 October 2024, three UK Armed Forces personnel tragically died from heat related causes confirmed by a Coroner and listed on the death certificates. All three deaths occurred in July 2013. The inquest for all three deaths began on 26 June 2015 at Solihull Council, Civic Suite, Council House, Solihull, West Midlands.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what improvements have been made to (a) how and (b) what data is reported for heat illness cases following the inquest into the death of Corporal Joshua Hoole in 2019.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what improvements have been made to (a) how and (b) what data is reported for heat illness cases following the inquest into the death of Corporal Joshua Hoole in 2019.
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has overhauled safety policy beginning in 2020 to provide clear direction that all suspected or confirmed heat illness cases must be reported, and to improve the quality of reporting safety occurrences. The MOD is now moving to a single safety occurrence reporting system known as MySafety.
Individual Defence organisations’ safety occurrence reporting procedures instructs their personnel on ‘how’ to report safety occurrences and the Commanders Guide to Joint Service Publication (JSP) 375 Chapter 41 (Heat Illness Prevention) specifies ‘what’ minimum data is required for reporting heat illness cases, for example: the time, location, Wet Bulb Globe Thermometer reading, Met Office weather forecast, type of activity being undertaken, and a description of the illness or injury.
The MOD has also developed and implemented heat illness prevention training that must be completed by all military personnel at the earliest opportunity (for example in Phase 1 training for new entrants) to reinforce the heat illness prevention policy, including reporting, that is set out in JSP 375 Chapter 41.
While work was undertaken in 2020 to move to a more common set of reporting and investigation forms, several individual Defence organisations continue to use separate reporting systems to report incidents of suspected or confirmed heat illness including exertional heat illness. The Army and UK Strat Com have already adopted MySafety as a unified reporting system. The remaining Front Line Commands are expected to follow suit by April 2025. MySafety has already seen an increase in reporting numbers and quality, but the full benefits will not be realised until Full Operating Capability is reached in October 2025.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's response to the Coroner report on the death of Corporal Joshua Hoole, dated 27 January 2020, when the common tri-service suite of reporting and investigation forms was completed; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's response to the Coroner report on the death of Corporal Joshua Hoole, dated 27 January 2020, when the common tri-service suite of reporting and investigation forms was completed; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness...
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has overhauled safety policy beginning in 2020 to provide clear direction that all suspected or confirmed heat illness cases must be reported, and to improve the quality of reporting safety occurrences. The MOD is now moving to a single safety occurrence reporting system known as MySafety.
Individual Defence organisations’ safety occurrence reporting procedures instructs their personnel on ‘how’ to report safety occurrences and the Commanders Guide to Joint Service Publication (JSP) 375 Chapter 41 (Heat Illness Prevention) specifies ‘what’ minimum data is required for reporting heat illness cases, for example: the time, location, Wet Bulb Globe Thermometer reading, Met Office weather forecast, type of activity being undertaken, and a description of the illness or injury.
The MOD has also developed and implemented heat illness prevention training that must be completed by all military personnel at the earliest opportunity (for example in Phase 1 training for new entrants) to reinforce the heat illness prevention policy, including reporting, that is set out in JSP 375 Chapter 41.
While work was undertaken in 2020 to move to a more common set of reporting and investigation forms, several individual Defence organisations continue to use separate reporting systems to report incidents of suspected or confirmed heat illness including exertional heat illness. The Army and UK Strat Com have already adopted MySafety as a unified reporting system. The remaining Front Line Commands are expected to follow suit by April 2025. MySafety has already seen an increase in reporting numbers and quality, but the full benefits will not be realised until Full Operating Capability is reached in October 2025.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have died of heat stroke in the UK in the last ten years.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have died of heat stroke in the UK in the last ten years.
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Hon. Member's Parliamentary Question of 26 January is attached.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has taken recent steps to protect troops deployed on Exercise Desert Khanjar from heat illness.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has taken recent steps to protect troops deployed on Exercise Desert Khanjar from heat illness.
As high temperatures were expected for Exercise Desert Khanjar, the Army applied Defence-wide health and safety risk management policies from the outset.
This included (but was not limited to) all personnel undertaking mandatory heat injury prevention training to ensure awareness at all levels and undergoing a full period of acclimatisation on arrival in Oman.
All activities are regularly reviewed and, where necessary, adapted to ensure training objectives are still achieved safely.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in the context of recent record-high temperatures, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on taking steps to prevent temperature-related deaths.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in the context of recent record-high temperatures, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on taking steps to prevent temperature-related deaths.
There are regular discussions with Cabinet colleagues on a range of issues relating to health and social care, including the prevention of temperature-related deaths. The Department and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) are raising awareness with health professionals, organisations and individuals to plan, mitigate and respond to hot weather episodes effectively.
The materials related to hot weather risks supporting the Heatwave Plan for England have been updated and provide sector specific guidance on actions to safeguard patients and service users. The Plan is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/heatwave-plan-for-england
The 2022 heatwave communications toolkit and social media assets have been shared with the UKHSA’s regional communications teams, cross-Government partners and local government. In April 2022, a stakeholder event was held with approximately
1,000 participants from the health and social care sector and other Government departments to raise awareness of early mitigating actions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Service Inquires conducted after a death during a (a) training exercise and (b) selection event included heat illness as a factor in (i) 2012, (ii) 2013, (iii) 2014, (iv) 2015, (v) 2016 and (vi) 2017.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Service Inquires conducted after a death during a (a) training exercise and (b) selection event included heat illness as a factor in (i) 2012, (ii) 2013, (iii) 2014, (iv) 2015, (v) 2016 and (vi) 2017.
Between 2012-2017 only one Service Inquiry was conducted, in 2015, where heat illness was specifically found to be a causal or contributory factor following a military exercise.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many notices of contravention issued to his Department by the Health and Safety Executive included contraventions of health and safety law in relation to the prevention of heat illness in (a) 2012, (b) 2013, (c) 2014, (d) 2015, (e) 2016 and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many notices of contravention issued to his Department by the Health and Safety Executive included contraventions of health and safety law in relation to the prevention of heat illness in (a) 2012, (b) 2013, (c) 2014, (d) 2015, (e) 2016 and...
The number of notices of contravention which have been issued to the Ministry of Defence by the Health and Safety Executive relating to Heat Injury, and which have been centrally reported are:
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The remainder of the information requested could not be collated in the time available. I will write to the hon. Member with details as soon as possible.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many members of staff in each prison were recorded as suffering from sunstroke in the period 1 May 2018 to 30 July 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many members of staff in each prison were recorded as suffering from sunstroke in the period 1 May 2018 to 30 July 2018.
HM Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS) does not record sunstroke as a reason for sickness absence and therefore the data requested is not available.
HMPPS is committed to ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of its staff, with all staff having access to a comprehensive occupational health service and employee assistance programme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people were treated in hospital for heatstroke between 2005 and 2010; and how many deaths there were from heatstroke in that period.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people were treated in hospital for heatstroke between 2005 and 2010; and how many deaths there were from heatstroke in that period.
| Number of finished consultant episodes (FCEs)¹ with a primary diagnosis of 'heatstroke and sunstroke'², 2005-06 to 2009-10³ | |
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| Activity in English NHS hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector | |
| FCEs | |
| 2009-10 | 61 |
| 2008-09 | 35 |
| 2007-08 | 41 |
| 2006-07 | 110 |
| 2005-06 | 70 |
| ¹ Finished consultant episode (FCE). | |
| A FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one health care provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year. | |
| ² Primary diagnosis: | |
| The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 20 (14 from 2002-03 to 2006-07 and seven prior to 2002-03) diagnosis fields in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data set and provides the main reason why the patient was admitted to hospital. | |
| ICD-10 codes used: | |
| T67.0 Heatstroke and sunstroke | |
| ³ Assessing growth through time: | |
| HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, apparent reductions in activity may be due to a number of procedures which may now be undertaken in outpatient settings and so no longer include in admitted patient HES data. | |
| Source: | |
| Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The NHS Information Centre for health and social care |
| Number of deaths with a cause of heatstroke or sunstroke, England, 2005-10¹, ², ³, 4, all persons | |
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| Deaths | |
| 2005 | 0 |
| 2006 | 3 |
| 2007 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 |
| ¹ Cause of death from heatstroke and sunstroke was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) code T67.0, where this code appeared as the secondary cause. | |
| ² Figures exclude deaths of non-residents. | |
| ³ Boundaries assigned using the May 2011 National Statistics Postcode Directory. | |
| 4 Figures are for deaths registered in each calendar year. |
I. Heatwave plan for England. 31 p. II. Heatwave: SUPPORTING VULNERABLE PEOPLE BEFORE AND DURING A HEATWAVE. Advice for health and social care professionals. 12 p. III. Heatwave: A GUIDE TO LOOKING AFTER YOURSELF AND OTHERS DURING HOT WEATHER. 8 p.
I. Heatwave plan for England. 31 p. II. Heatwave: SUPPORTING VULNERABLE PEOPLE BEFORE AND DURING A HEATWAVE. Advice for health and social care professionals. 12 p. III. Heatwave: A GUIDE TO LOOKING AFTER YOURSELF AND OTHERS DURING HOT WEATHER. 8 p.
Table showing count of hospital admissions for sunburn, effects of heat and light and volume depletion for each year from from 2002/03 to 2007/07, broken down by age and health authority. 11 p.
Table showing count of hospital admissions for sunburn, effects of heat and light and volume depletion for each year from from 2002/03 to 2007/07, broken down by age and health authority. 11 p.
(4) how many heat-related (a) casualties and (b) deaths of British service personnel there have been in (i) Iraq and (ii) Afghanistan since the commencement of operations.
(4) how many heat-related (a) casualties and (b) deaths of British service personnel there have been in (i) Iraq and (ii) Afghanistan since the commencement of operations.
(3) what training medical personnel in the armed forces receive on training and preventing heat-related casualties;
(3) what training medical personnel in the armed forces receive on training and preventing heat-related casualties;
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what steps have been taken to minimise the number of heat-related casualties in the armed forces deployed on operations;
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what steps have been taken to minimise the number of heat-related casualties in the armed forces deployed on operations;
(2) what measures are taken to ensure that British service personnel are properly (a) trained and (b) equipped to operate in conditions of extreme (i) heat and (ii) cold;
(2) what measures are taken to ensure that British service personnel are properly (a) trained and (b) equipped to operate in conditions of extreme (i) heat and (ii) cold;
Adjournment debate on the effects of climate change.
Adjournment debate on the effects of climate change.
A potential environmental catastrophe is facing the country and starting to unfold. If that catastrophe comes to pass, our children and our children’s children may not rue the day that we failed to take action, because those generations may not exist. I think that it is as extreme as that....
A potential environmental catastrophe is facing the country and starting to unfold. If that catastrophe comes to pass, our children and our children’s children may not rue the day that we failed to take action, because those generations may not exist. I think that it is as extreme as that....
I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Marris) on securing this Adjournment debate on adapting to the effects of climate change. I am grateful to him for raising this subject, because I agree that it is one about which we do not speak often enough. I...
I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Marris) on securing this Adjournment debate on adapting to the effects of climate change. I am grateful to him for raising this subject, because I agree that it is one about which we do not speak often enough. I...
Climatic injuries in the armed forces: prevention and treatment 2003. 40 p.
Climatic injuries in the armed forces: prevention and treatment 2003. 40 p.