00:00In June, we saw well over 400,000 people in our A&E department.
00:06So, you know, we have busy days and less busy days,
00:09but over the course of the month, it was over 400,000.
00:13That was 16,000 more than we saw in April.
00:18That's, you know, four and a half times filling Wembley Stadium
00:22with people who come to our A&E departments.
00:24London Ambulance have put 600 more ambulances on the road
00:29to cope with the demand.
00:31One of the real privileges of my job is I have responsibility
00:35for the whole capital.
00:37One of the things I do is go and visit hospitals.
00:40So I visited a couple of hospitals last week.
00:46And the first thing to say is staff are working under really,
00:50really difficult conditions when it's this hot.
00:52Quite a lot of hospital buildings are quite elderly
00:56and they don't always have modern air conditioning.
01:01And if we think it's bad for staff, imagine being a patient
01:05who's not very well in those environments
01:08and we do our best to make it as comfortable as possible.
01:13But the department I went to on Friday morning was really busy.
01:19You know, I was there at 10 o'clock in the morning.
01:2210 o'clock in the morning is usually quite a quiet time
01:25in A&E departments.
01:26And already, you know, they've had a period of time
01:29where they've had 12 ambulances arrive in an hour.
01:34And there were queues of patients waiting to be seen.
01:39And quite a lot of that were the consequences
01:41of the very hot spell we're experiencing at the moment.
01:45So I think if the weather that carries on being this hot,
01:49there will be an increase in deaths.
01:54And then mainly from heart attack, strokes,
01:56and respiratory illness.
01:57You know, you soon don't have to be seen.
01:57Think you'll see.�
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