24/03/26 – Without a sustained political focus on reducing extreme long waits in Scotland’s Emergency Departments, it could take more than 200 years to reduce the number of people enduring these waits down to levels seen in 2016.
24/03/26 – The scale of deaths linked to long A&E waits last year should send shockwaves through the entire political system in Wales, and whoever forms the next Welsh Government must commit to ending the link between long waits and deaths by 2030.
19/03/2026 – Efforts to ensure the UK healthcare system is resilient against future pandemics will be undermined if the capacity issues in emergency care systems that are already ‘struggling to cope year-round’ are not addressed, according to RCEM.
19/03/26 – As the Welsh government celebrates a record drop in elective waiting lists, RCEM has warned the ‘worst’ record setting in ED must come to an end as it’s putting vulnerable people at risk.
12/03/2026 – The NHSE Staff Survey for 2025 found almost one in seven staff (14.47%) experienced at least one incident of physical violence by a patient or the public last year – the highest in three years.
12/03/2026 – Slight improvements in some aspects of A&E performance in England must be treated with caution, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine says today.
11/03/2026 – More than half of Emergency Department Clinical Leads in England who responded to a survey by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said their A&E was unsafe for patients.
07/03/2026 – Dr Fiona Hunter, RCEM Vice President for Scotland, responds to analysis from the Scottish Liberal Democrats, which suggested that there were 871 deaths in Emergency Departments (EDs) associated with a 12 or more hour wait for admission.
05/03/2026 – The crisis in English Emergency Departments is fixable, if government and health service leaders are willing to act on bed capacity in our hospitals.
04/03/2026 – A unified definition on corridor care is an interesting approach – but only if meaningful action follows.
03/03/2026 – Emergency Departments (EDs) in Scotland are in dire need of attention by whoever forms the next government in May, as unwanted records for four, eight and 12-hour waits continue to be set.
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) is calling for action after new weekly performance figures for England released today show an increase in patients remaining in hospital despite being medically fit to leave – as well as considerable time being lost due to ambulance handover delays.
