Responding to the latest monthly Emergency Department performance figures for Scotland for January 2023, Dr John-Paul Loughrey, Vice President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Scotland, said:

A new briefing by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, RCEM Explains: Long waits and excess deaths, reveals that in 2022 1,656,206 patients waited 12-hours or more from their time of arrival in an Emergency Department. This is equal to over 4,500 12-hour time of arrival waits per day in

Commenting on the announcement by the BMA of industrial action by junior doctors, Dr Adrian Boyle, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said:

Responding to the Royal College of Nursing’s announcement that there will be a 48-hour industrial action that includes Emergency Departments, intensive care and cancer wards, Dr Adrian Boyle, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said:

Responding to the latest Emergency Department performance figures for January 2023 for the South West Region, Dr James Gagg, South West Regional Chair of The Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said:

Responding to the latest Emergency Department performance figures published by NHS England for January 2023, Dr Adrian Boyle, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said:

Responding to the latest Emergency Department performance figures for Scotland for December 2022 Dr John-Paul Loughrey, Vice President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Scotland, said:

Commenting on the publication of the Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services by NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care, Dr Adrian Boyle, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said:

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine today outlines five priorities for UK governments to tackle the crisis in Emergency Care, after polling carried out by Ipsos on behalf of the College found 59% of respondents expressed a lack of confidence that the UK Government have the right policies to tackle

Responding to the latest Emergency Care Waiting Time Statistics (October – December 2022) published by the Department of Health Northern Ireland, Dr Paul Kerr, Vice President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Northern Ireland, said:

Responding to the House of Lords Public Services Committee’s report Emergency Healthcare: a national emergency published today, Dr Adrian Boyle, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said:

A landmark survey of Emergency Medicine staff in Wales has found that there are far too few clinicians to cope with demand within the stricken health service.
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s ‘Wales’ Emergency Medicine Workforce Census 2023’ is an in-depth analysis of the state of the Emergency