Patients, clinicians, and politicians’ united calls to improve urgent and emergency care in Wales must be heeded by the Senedd as the latest data reveals more people waited more than 12 hours in the country’s Emergency Departments last month than ever before. Monthly data released today – 20 February 2025,

RCEM analysis of the latest Scottish ED performance data reveals that the number of people experiencing stays of longer than 12hrs in Scotland’s Emergency Departments in 2024 was a staggering 99 times higher than 2011 when records began. Last year in major EDs, 76,346 people endured waits of more than

Resident doctors are the future of healthcare and deserve the highest quality training. This is the response from The Royal College of Medicine (RCEM) to the announcement of a review into postgraduate training of newly qualified medics. The review, announced today – 19 February 2025 by NHS England, has been launched

Heath leaders must act to reduce dangerous and unacceptable 12-hour pre-admission A&E stays as new data reveals last month saw the highest number of these types of waits ever recorded.   That’s the response from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine which has issued a to call to action following the

A ‘harrowing’ new report which sees patients sharing their experiences of attending Welsh Emergency Departments should galvanise the Welsh Government into action.   This is the response form The Royal College of Emergency Medicine as a new report concludes urgent and emergency care in Wales is “failing too many people,

As new data shows that hospitals are running dangerously close to capacity, and with thousands of people each day remaining in hospital when they could go home, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has described the system as grinding to a halt. New data released today by NHS England

The British Medical Journal Group and RCEM are seeking an “ambitious and dynamic” Editor-in-Chief for the Emergency Medicine Journal (EMJ). The Editor-in-Chief has overall responsibility for the content and editorial strategy of the journal with support from their editorial team and BMJ Group publishing staff. The ideal candidate will be an

RCEM responds to the government’s ‘mandate for the NHS’ and NHSE planning guidance Thursday 30 January 2025 New missives from the Department of Health and NHS England provide little ‘guidance’ as to how the most dangerous and shameful issues facing Emergency Departments – corridor care and excessive pre-admission waits – are going to

Thursday 23 January 2025 As new data reveals the mounting issues facing the health service in Wales, RCEM has urged the Government there not to neglect Urgent and Emergency Care. Performance data for the NHS in Wales – published today (23 January 2025) shows that there are serious issues across the

Thursday 23 January 2025 Details of what the government intends to do to ‘future proof’ the NHS against further A&E winter crises cannot come soon enough as extreme seasonal pressure continues. That’s the message from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) as new data from NHS England revealed that

Wednesday 21 January 2025 The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has joined calls to reform the Urgent and Emergency Care system’ as it asserts the NHS ‘got the winter it prepared for’. A set of recommendations have been published today – Wednesday 22 January 2025, in a joint statement co-signed