11/06/2026 – Newly-published data on corridor care is a welcome sign that a national scandal is being taken seriously – but data alone will not make a difference to patient care.
10/06/2026 – Dr Ian Higginson, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, responds to the NHS Alliance’s calls for a campaign on respect for NHS staff.
08/06/2026 – The estimated number of deaths linked to long waits in Emergency Departments across England has surged almost tenfold over the past decade.
04/06/2026 – Dr Ian Higginson, RCEM President, responds to Lord Mann report.
03/06/2026 – Too many patients are missing out on their life-saving prescription drugs, or being given them late, in Emergency Departments – and hospital overcrowding is making the problem worse.
02/06/2026 – The newly re-elected Scottish Government must show that it is serious about tackling overcrowding in Emergency Departments – as A&E waiting time records continue to be broken.
01/06/2026 – A UK and Ireland-wide survey aimed at capturing data on regional anaesthesia practice, and its complications, in Emergency Departments has opened today (1 June 2026).
More than half of Emergency Department 28/05/26 – Clinical Leads in Northern Ireland believe a new ambulance handover policy is increasing overcrowding in A&Es – a situation RCEM says is ‘extremely dangerous’.
21/05/2026 – Record-busting waiting times, thousands of patients stuck for more than 12 hours – and people coming to harm.
20/05/2026 – The data also showed, since 2019, around half a million children and young people attended ED in a mental health crisis.
21/05/2026- The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) and Marie Curie are pleased to announce the award of two research grants, worth a total of over £30,000, to research projects aimed at improving palliative and end of life care in Emergency Departments.
19/05/2026 – Dr Ian Higginson, RCEM President, said: “These figures reflect what we are hearing, anecdotally, from our own members in Emergency Departments.
