Monday 16 December 2024 The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has hit back at health service guidance detailing how patients can be ‘safely’ treated in corridors describing it as a “normalisation of the unacceptable and dangerous”. The RCEM Position Statement on NHS guidance for ‘providing care in temporary escalation spaces’
12 December 2024 The Royal College of Emergency Medicine says it is ‘deeply concerned’ about the lack of political attention on the pressure facing Urgent and Emergency Care systems as winter hits. The College – which represents more the 13,000 front line Emergency Medicine clinicians – expressed its worries after
Today’s budget released by the Scottish government is a “step in the right direction” but comes too late to ease the winter crisis already hitting some of the country’s A&Es.
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has joined calls for the Scottish government to address ‘delayed hospital discharges’ 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 aren’t 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 Ireland’s Winter Preparedness Plan is ‘too little, too late’ to tackle tough season ahead in EDs 8 November 2024 Responding to the Northern Ireland’s Executive’s Winter Preparedness Plan 2024/25, which was released this week (06 November 2024), RCEM’s Vice President for Northern Ireland, Dr Russell McLaughlin said: “This plan is described
Extremely long and dangerous wait times should serve as a ‘chilling warning’ to the Scottish government that the country’s Emergency Departments are on a ‘fast track to chaos’ this winter.
Today’s budget represents a good first step on the road to rebuilding the NHS but Emergency Department staff and patients are still facing a very bleak winter.
The government’s pre-budget health funding announcement offers little reassurance to Emergency Clinicians or their patients’ ahead of what could be ‘most challenging winter’ yet.
Responding to the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) State of Care report 2023/24, Dr Ian Higginson, Vice President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: “This report, like so many others, reinforces what RCEM has been saying, and sadly will be of no surprise to our members and patients. It
