In providing policy publications, we aim to place Emergency Medicine at the heart of health policy by publishing reports and briefings. We respond to policy consultations to ensure our recommendations reach key policymakers.
Reports and position statements
- Scotland Census (September 2025)
- RCEM Acute Insight Series: Capital Incentive Schemes (September 2025)
- England Workforce Census (September 2024)
- RCEM & College of Paramedics Joint Statement: Ambulance Handover Delays – Options Appraisal to Reduce Harm (August 2024)
- RCEM Explains: Long waits and excess deaths (April 2024)
- RCEM Explains: Progress Against Delivery Plan – one year on (April 2024)
- RCEM Wales: Wales’ Emergency Medicine Workforce Census (January 2023)
- Tip of the Iceberg: 12 Hour Stays in the Emergency Department (June 2022)
- Retain, Recruit, Recover: Our Call for Action to Improve the Urgent and Emergency Care System (July 2021)
- Scotland’s Emergency Medicine Workforce Census (July 2021)
- RCEM PPE ethnic minorities and risk in EDs during the pandemic (January 2021)
- RCEM Statement on vaccine hesitancy (March 2021)
- RCEM Position Statement ‘COVID-19: Resetting Emergency Department Care’ (May 2020)
RCEM Acute Insight Series
- RCEM Acute Insight Series: Emergency Medicine Workforce in England (June 2023)
- RCEM Acute Insight Series: Mental Health Emergency Care (September 2022)
- RCEM Acute Insight Series: Beds in the NHS (May 2022)
- RCEM Acute Insight Series: Crowding and its Consequences (November 2021)
- RCEM Acute Insight Series: What’s Behind the Increase in Demand in Emergency Departments? (August 2021)
Briefings and letters
- RCEM Briefing: Crowding in Scottish ED’s (June 2024)
- RCEM Briefing: Current performance of the NHS and innovation in the health service (June 2023)
- RCEM Explains: Hospital beds across the UK (May 2023)
- RCEM Briefing: Oral questions in the House of Lords: Prime Minister’s pledge to strengthen the NHS (May 2023)
- Summary of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s Emergency Care Crisis Summit (March 2023)
- RCEM Explains: Crisis Summit Briefing Document (March 2023)
- RCEM Briefing: NHS Recovery Forum (January 2023)
- Letter to Office for Stats Regulation about 12 hour data from time of arrival (June 2022)
- Letter to Amanda Pritchard about 12 hour data from time of arrival (May 2022)
- RCEM Explains: 12 hour Performance Briefing for Policymakers (10 March 2022)
- Summer to Recover: Winter-proofing Urgent and Emergency Care for 2021 (20 April 2021)
- Summer to Recover: Guide for Clinical Leads (30 April 2021)
- RCEM Explains: Hospital Beds (28 June 2021)
- Letter to the Chancellor regarding the Spring Budget 2021 (March 2021)
- Joint letter to Foreign Secretary 2021: UN Political Declaration (1 March 2021)
- RCEM CARES: Retention – Policymaker Brief for MPs (England) (February 2021)
Consultation responses
- RCEM response to Scottish Health, Sport and Social Care committee inquiry into NHS winter planning. (July 2023)
- Proposal for Health & Social Care Select Committee Prevention Inquiry (February 2023)
- Topical Session on A&E – Health and Social Care Select Committee (January 2023)
- RCEM response to House of Lords Public Services Inquiry on Emergency Services (November 2022)
- RCEM submission to AOMRC report on the Crisis in the NHS (April 2022)
- RCEM submission to the Public Accounts Committee on Backlogs in the NHS Inquiry (December 2021)
- RCEM response to the Health and Social Care Select Committee Inquiry on Clearing the Backlog (August 2021)
- RCEM response to the NHS England Clinical Review of Standards Consultation (February 2021)