Health written question – answered at on 10 January 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he has taken to ensure the NHS has a strategy to prevent excess winter deaths.
In November we published the first ever Cold Weather Plan for England.
The Cold Weather Plan sets out a series of clear actions to minimise the health impact of severe winter weather, to be taken by the national health service, social care and other public agencies and advice for people who interact with those most at risk from cold weather. It is supported by the Warm Homes Healthy People Fund of £30 million to reduce death and morbidity due to cold housing this winter.
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