Aliza Ayaz

Aliza Ayaz is a UN Goodwill Ambassador and climate policy adviser with a background in population health and infectious disease epidemiology

  • Heatwave
    Comment

    The NHS needs a summer plan as well as a winter one

    2026-08-05T04:12:00

    As heat-related deaths rise and projections for 2050 grow increasingly stark, the NHS must stop treating summer as the quiet season. The case for giving heat the same operational seriousness as winter has never been stronger – and the cost of delay is already being counted in lives