“Utterly horrifying” state of Northern Ireland A&Es revealed as 2026 so far has seen the worst waiting times EVER recorded
23/04/2026 – The Northern Ireland Executive must immediately take action or more lives will be lost to the Emergency Care crisis.
The month of March saw three times as many people waiting 12 hours or more than nine years ago: RCEM
23/04/26 – In March, across EDs in Wales, 10,931 patients waited more than 12 hours.
RCEM launches GreenED in Australia and New Zealand to cut the environmental impact of Emergency Departments, reduce costs and improve patient care
22/04/26 – It comes after nine EDs in New South Wales, Australia, have achieved Bronze through the GreenED International pilot programme.
Deaths caused by long ED waits more than doubled in 5 years, new RCEM analysis suggests
17/04/2026 – Northern Irish policymakers must address the “catastrophe” unfolding in EDs, as the estimated number of people who may have died due to long Emergency Department waits more than doubled in five years.
Minor, incentive-driven improvements in A&E performance ‘no cause for celebration’ says Royal College of Emergency Medicine
16/04/2026 – NHS England’s incentives scheme aimed at improving A&E performance has missed the mark, though the slight reductions in waiting times are welcome.
Urgent Treatment Centre plans ‘not the answer’ to end ‘shameful’ corridor care, but efforts on improving ownership of the problem within Trusts welcome
12/04/2026 – New urgent treatment centres will do little to nothing in tackling and eradicating the national shame that is corridor care.
RCEM responds to HSSIB report on legislative gaps affecting people in mental health crisis in ED
09/04/09 – The HSSIB has released an interim report titled mental health crisis care: legislative challenges in ED
“Crying out for help” – Dire state of A&E should be top of the Scottish Election agenda, says RCEM, as record numbers experience long waits
07/04/2026 – As thousands of patients each month in Scotland are forced to wait more than half a day in Emergency Departments before being discharged, transferred or admitted, whoever forms the next Scottish Government must make this healthcare crisis an emergency.
Statement on Resident Doctors’ industrial action
25/03/2026 – The BMA announced Resident Doctors will strike from 7 April to 13 April.
Long ED waiting times in Scotland could take generations to recover if the issue isn’t a political priority: RCEM
24/03/26 – Without a sustained political focus on reducing extreme long waits in Scotland’s Emergency Departments, it could take more than 200 years to reduce the number of people enduring these waits down to levels seen in 2016.
Nearly 1,000 deaths linked to long Emergency Department waits in Wales in 2025, RCEM warns
24/03/26 – The scale of deaths linked to long A&E waits last year should send shockwaves through the entire political system in Wales, and whoever forms the next Welsh Government must commit to ending the link between long waits and deaths by 2030.
Emergency Care crisis threatens UK’s ability to withstand next pandemic, RCEM warns
19/03/2026 – Efforts to ensure the UK healthcare system is resilient against future pandemics will be undermined if the capacity issues in emergency care systems that are already ‘struggling to cope year-round’ are not addressed, according to RCEM.
EDs in Wales experience yet another record setting month for worst ever performance: RCEM
19/03/26 – As the Welsh government celebrates a record drop in elective waiting lists, RCEM has warned the ‘worst’ record setting in ED must come to an end as it’s putting vulnerable people at risk.
Increase in physical violence and discrimination against NHS staff ‘disgraceful, appalling and so much more’: RCEM
12/03/2026 – The NHSE Staff Survey for 2025 found almost one in seven staff (14.47%) experienced at least one incident of physical violence by a patient or the public last year – the highest in three years.
Not the time for complacency, RCEM says, as slight ED performance improvements overshadowed by further deterioration elsewhere
12/03/2026 – Slight improvements in some aspects of A&E performance in England must be treated with caution, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine says today.
‘Morale is non-existent’: Clinicians sound alarm over patient safety concerns in England’s Emergency Departments
11/03/2026 – More than half of Emergency Department Clinical Leads in England who responded to a survey by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said their A&E was unsafe for patients.