00:00The government is putting major investment into NHS infrastructure across the country
00:04to make sure it's fit for the future and one of the ways in which we need to be fit
00:07for
00:08the future is for the fact we're likely to have more heat waves. I think we know how
00:12to respond to winter pressures, that's something the NHS has got used to over many years and
00:17has plans how to step up during those winter pressures whenever they come along. What I
00:22think we need more of is confidence about when we have heat pressures come our way,
00:26how are we going to respond to that? And let me say that NHS staff and leadership across
00:32the country have been doing a fantastic job to maintain services during the heat waves,
00:36but as they're becoming more frequent we need to make sure those plans are as resilient as
00:40possible so that they don't have an impact on service.
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