NHS leaders urge government to take action on energy costs or risk 'public health emergency'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% :The NHS is already facing what many are predicting to be 'one of the toughest winters on record' - resulting from high demand on health services combined with predicted high levels of flu, norovirus and potentially further COVID-19 outbreaks - and fear that failure to restrict energy price hikes will worsen the situation by increasing demand on already pressured health and social care services.
42% : NHS leaders from across England, Wales and Northern Ireland fear a 'widening of health inequalities and worsening health outcomes' for people living in communities with the highest levels of deprivation if excessive energy costs drive people further into poverty, predicting it fall to local NHS and social care services to 'pick up the pieces'.

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