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Flooding: health guidance and advice

Flooding presents a number of risks to health. This guidance helps professionals and the public address those risks and clean up safely.

Updates to this page

From:
UK Health Security Agency
Published:
1 February 2014
Last updated:
27 March 2025
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  1. Added 'Flood action cards'.

  2. Updated collection.

  3. Added link to the Adverse Weather and Health Plan (AWHP).

  4. Added Flooding and public mental health: assessment and management.

  5. Added connection to 'Environmental management: flooding and coastal change'.

  6. Added Public Health England surveillance report summaries for 2014 floods.

  7. First published.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) published the Adverse Weather and Health Plan (AWHP) on 27 April 2023.

People living through a flood

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