The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has welcomed the Liberal Democrats’ call to ‘make the NHS winterproof’ as the colder months loom.

The Urgent and Emergency Care system is stuck in ‘survival mode.’

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).

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

Curbing sky rocketing A&E waiting times must be the number one priority for the Scottish government with winter just around the corner.

The new First Minister of Wales must take urgent action to address long waits in Emergency Departments before an inevitable winter spike in demand.

We have to get better at involving and supporting inpatients to leave hospital as soon as they are able to.

The latest shocking A&E performance data for Northern Ireland must be a catalyst for change.

The government must take urgent action to increase A&E capacity ahead of winter.

In response to the findings of the General Medical Council’s survey The state of medical education and practice in the UK: Workplace experiences 2024, Dr Adrian Boyle, President of The Royal College of Emergency Medicine said: “This report detailing the extent of burnout among doctors is sobering reading, though sadly

This is the response from The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) as data shows one in nine people waited eight hours or more in Scottish A&Es in June.

RCEM describes survey findings showing that doctors training in EM report the highest rate of burnout across all specialties as “upsetting but not surprising”.