Heat-related deaths in social care in England: can the Care Quality Commission ratings system be used to identify care homes that would benefit most from heat adaptation measures?

Background The health impacts of rising temperatures in care home settings are of growing concern. We seek to characterise the risk of heat-related mortality in nursing and residential care home settings in England and to assess potential modification of heat effects by Care Quality Commission (CQC)...

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Published in:	Age & Ageing Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 1 - 8
Main Authors:	Hajat, Shakoor, Hussein, Shereen, Li, Keyi, Kovats, Sari, Davies, Michael, Mavrogianni, Anna, Gupta, Rajat
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Apr2026
Subjects:	England Care Quality Commission Home care services Climate change Population geography Nursing care facilities Poisson distribution Research funding Physiological effects of heat Time series analysis Descriptive statistics Heat exhaustion Confidence intervals Residential care Regression analysis
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