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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker, Tobi Thomas and Aletha Adu

Nurses fainting in ‘inhumane’ conditions due to extreme heat, union warns

Nurse looking after a man sitting hunched over on a hospital bed
The Royal College of Nursing said that members were left dizzy, nauseous or at risk of fainting while dripping with sweat ‘from head to toe’. Photograph: sturti/Getty Images

Nurses are collapsing during shifts amid “inhumane and impossible” conditions caused by extreme heat, their union has warned, as Andy Burnham promised to grapple with “the bigger questions” of climate adaptation.

Amid growing pressure from Labour backbenches to fully acknowledge the urgency of adaptation measures as the climate crisis bites, Burnham said he was for now focusing on the immediate crises caused by an ongoing summer of extreme heat.

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