Hospitals: Temperature

(asked on 7th July 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many overheating incidents have been logged in NHS hospitals in the South West in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Karin Smyth Portrait
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 14th July 2025

Data on overheating incidents is collected as part of the Estates Return Information Collection, and is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/estates-returns-information-collection

The following table shows how many overheating incidents have been logged in National Health Service hospitals in the South West in each of the last five years:

Year

Overheating incidents

2023/24

413

2022/23

259

2021/22

191

2020/21

Not collected

2029/20

Not collected

Total

863

Source: Estates Returns Information Collection dataset, published January 2025.

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