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UK's First Rooftop ICU Opens Amid Heatwave

5/29/2026

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  • King's College Hospital opened the UK's first outdoor intensive-care ward on its rooftop.
  • Patient Hollie Allan, 29, was transferred to the new six-bed ward equipped with waterproof power and oxygen boxes, and remains on life-support equipment.
  • Clinicians will track heart rate, respiratory rate and pain to see if fresh air shortens critical-care stays.
  • Health officials extended amber heat alerts and reported nine water-related deaths as temperatures stayed unusually high.