Overview
- The alerts run from 6pm Monday 26 January to 6pm Friday 30 January for the North East and North West of England.
- UKHSA assigns a matrix score of 7, indicating likely minor impacts on health and social care and a greater risk to life for vulnerable people.
- Met Office guidance signals milder spells in the south and southwest while colder air lingers in the northeast with wintry showers and some hill snow.
- The cold-health alert is separate from Met Office travel and infrastructure warnings, focuses on health impacts, and will be monitored for possible upgrade to amber.
- Public advice urges heating lived-in rooms to at least 18°C, wearing layers, reducing draughts, checking on vulnerable neighbours, and using NHS 111 or 999 for urgent concerns.