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Calls for Emergency Care reform ‘resounding’, says RCEM
Patients, clinicians, and politicians’ united calls to improve urgent and emergency care in Wales must be heeded by the Senedd as the latest data reveals

Waiting too long: In 2011 just 784 people waited more than 12 hours in a Scottish A&E – last year more than 76,000 did
RCEM analysis of the latest Scottish ED performance data reveals that the number of people experiencing stays of longer than 12hrs in Scotland’s Emergency Departments

No respite for overstretched EDs as ‘winter’ continues
There has been no respite for embattled emergency clinicians as rising numbers of norovirus cases means seasonal pressures continue.

Resident doctors deserve highest quality training, says RCEM
Resident doctors are the future of healthcare and deserve the highest quality training. This is the response from The Royal College of Medicine (RCEM) to

RCEM selected to support newly formed APPG on Emergency Care
A new All Party Parliamentary Group has been formed to examine the issue related to emergency care, and the Royal College of Emergency Medicine is delighted to have been appointed to support it.

RCEM describes record 12-hour ‘trolley waits’ as ‘a catastrophe’
Heath leaders must act to reduce dangerous and unacceptable 12-hour pre-admission A&E stays as new data reveals last month saw the highest number of these

Patients’ A&E testimonies should be the catalyst for Government action – RCEM
A ‘harrowing’ new report which sees patients sharing their experiences of attending Welsh Emergency Departments should galvanise the Welsh Government into action. This is

No sign of winter pressures easing as A&Es continue to bear the brunt of a gridlocked system
As new data shows that hospitals are running dangerously close to capacity, and with thousands of people each day remaining in hospital when they could

RCEM is looking for a new Chairperson for the Sustainable Working Practices Committee
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine is looking to recruit a new Chairperson to lead its Sustainable Working Practices (SWP) Committee. This committee focuses on

Applications open for new Editor in Chief for the Emergency Medicine Journal (EMJ)
The British Medical Journal Group and RCEM are seeking an “ambitious and dynamic” Editor-in-Chief for the Emergency Medicine Journal (EMJ). The Editor-in-Chief has overall responsibility for

New guidance fails to address how‘national shame’ of corridor care and excessive A&E waits will be tackled
RCEM responds to the government’s ‘mandate for the NHS’ and NHSE planning guidance Thursday 30 January 2025 New missives from the Department of Health and NHS England provide

Welsh Government must not neglect UEC as pressures mounts across the country’s NHS
Thursday 23 January 2025 As new data reveals the mounting issues facing the health service in Wales, RCEM has urged the Government there not to

As A&E seasonal crisis continues RCEM urges government to start work now to ensure there is no repeat next winter
Thursday 23 January 2025 Details of what the government intends to do to ‘future proof’ the NHS against further A&E winter crises cannot come soon

RCEM joins calls to reform ‘disjointed’ Emergency Care system
Wednesday 21 January 2025 The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has joined calls to reform the Urgent and Emergency Care system’ as it asserts

RCEM announces next President
Friday 17 January 2025 The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has appointed its next President. Dr Ian Higginson, who is currently one of the College’s

“There must be a point where we go beyond analysis and accept that this is a serious problem that needs urgent political action”
RCEM responds to new ONS research into deaths linked to long A&E stays Friday 17 January 2025 Comprehensive new statistical analysis of the link between