{"id":93415,"date":"2026-08-27T09:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93415"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:06:34","slug":"national-scandal-extreme-heat-linked-to-40000-deaths-in-england-between-1988-and-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/national-scandal-extreme-heat-linked-to-40000-deaths-in-england-between-1988-and-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018National scandal\u2019: Extreme heat linked to 40,000 deaths in England between 1988 and 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2aXXPk.img?w=768&h=614&m=6\" alt=\"The figures do not include this summer, when England is on track to record its highest ever number of heat-related deaths. Photograph: SOPA Images\/LightRocket\/Getty Images\" width=\"614\" height=\"491\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than 40,000 extra people died on the hottest days in England between 1988 and 2025 than would be expected in normal temperatures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/weather\/general\/national-scandal-extreme-heat-linked-to-40-000-deaths-in-england-between-1988-and-2025\/ar-AA2aXvoK?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a8ffba4ada4490ba7e6c92eedfb5641&ei=49\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>More than 40,000 extra people died on the hottest days in England between 1988 and 2025 than would be expected in normal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Heatwave-UK.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93416,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93415\/revisions\/93416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}