Hospitals are bracing for an increase in patients with firework-related burns and injuries next week, after admissions jumped 42% last November, with some children suffering life-changing injuries.
There were 85 firework-related hospital admissions in England in November 2025, up from 60 in November the year before. Across the whole of 2025, admissions reached 161, compared with 120 the previous year – a rise of 34%.
Read more – NHSE (31/10/26)
