CrawleyExtreme heat cancelled 10 emergency operations.
Heatwaves scrapped over 1,100 operations nationwide, Carbon Brief found, worsening already-long waiting lists.
Most British hospitals lack the cooling that operating theatres need to control contaminants at high temperatures.
Officials have pledged £32 million toward Britain’s 2035 safe-hospital-temperature target.
How each outlet framed it
- Carbon Brief leans critical
- used FOI to reveal NHS significantly understates heat-caused cancellations; hospitals don't routinely record this data
Sources: Carbon Brief