Readers react to the brutal heat conditions affecting Britain and Europe Last summer, I wrote to you warning of the growing threat that extreme heat poses to both patients and the NHS, that the demand for healthcare would rise as temperatures climbed, that our hospitals were ill-equipped to cope and that investment in resilience was urgently needed ( Letters, 21 July 2025 ). A year on, the UK is set for another record-breaking heatwave, yet little has changed. The UK Health Security Agency has a