Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the climate resilience of hospital buildings in England.

NHS England routinely monitors National Health Service facilities using integrated risk assessments. The ‘Third Health and Care Adaptation Report’, published in December 2021 by NHS England and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), sets out the approach to assessing and responding to climate risks in the health sector.

The climate resilience of hospital buildings is assessed in the ‘UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2022’ (CCRA3). The Department, NHS England and the UKHSA are developing plans to address the risks in the CCRA3 and improve the climate resilience of the health sector in the third National Adaptation Programme, in line with the United Kingdom’s commitments made through the COP26 Health Programme.