19 December 2024 Year-on-year, there are four times as many people who have been hospitalised for flu so far in December 2024. And Emergency Medicine clinicians are still waiting for the government to act to mitigate the winter crisis in their A&Es as the pressure facing Urgent and Emergency Care
Monday 23 December 2024 Leading Emergency Medicine clinicians are urging parents and carers to be extra cautious with toys containing water beads, button batteries and super strong magnets this festive season. Doctors are warning these gifts could pose a danger to children and vulnerable adults if swallowed. The guidance, issued
Thursday 19 December 2024 The Welsh government must âlisten to those on the frontlineâ of emergency care as health board issues capacity warning. This is the call from The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) as data shows more than one in seven people waited 12 hours or longer in
Monday 16 December 2024 The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has hit back at health service guidance detailing how patients can be âsafelyâ treated in corridors describing it as a ânormalisation of the unacceptable and dangerousâ. The RCEM Position Statement on NHS guidance for âproviding care in temporary escalation spacesâ
12 December 2024 The Royal College of Emergency Medicine says it is âdeeply concernedâ about the lack of political attention on the pressure facing Urgent and Emergency Care systems as winter hits. The College â which represents more the 13,000 front line Emergency Medicine clinicians â expressed its worries after
Todayâs budget released by the Scottish government is a âstep in the right directionâ but comes too late to ease the winter crisis already hitting some of the countryâs A&Es.
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has joined calls for the Scottish government to address âdelayed hospital dischargesâ in the upcoming budget announcement.
Emergency Medicine clinicians in Wales feel like they are getting the cold shoulder from the Welsh Government as the weather worsens and their concerns about patient safety grow.
Almost nine out of 10 UK A&E clinicians said they arenât confident that their departments will cope well this winter.
League tables to compare hospital performance could take away focus from deeper systemic issues affecting Urgent and Emergency Care.
Northern Irelandâs Winter Preparedness Plan is âtoo little, too lateâ to tackle tough season ahead in EDs 8 November 2024 Responding to the Northern Irelandâs Executiveâs Winter Preparedness Plan 2024/25, which was released this week (06 November 2024), RCEMâs Vice President for Northern Ireland, Dr Russell McLaughlin said: “This plan is described
Extremely long and dangerous wait times should serve as a âchilling warningâ to the Scottish government that the countryâs Emergency Departments are on a âfast track to chaosâ this winter.
