25/11/25 – It comes as RCEM publishes it’s political manifesto ahead of next year’s election in Wales.
21/11/25 – The latest performance data showed 10,493 people waited more than 12 hours before being admitted, discharged or transferred last month.
14/11/2025 – RCEM also responds to further winter plans announced by the Scottish government
13/11/2025 – RCEM says NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care must focus on reducing the longest and most dangerous waits as Emergency Departments head into the depths of winter.
Resident Doctors in England will be striking between 14-19 November 2025.
10/11/2025 – Almost one in five patients in Emergency Departments were being cared for in trolleys or chairs in corridors in England this summer, with so-called ‘corridor care’ leaving people feeling ‘forgotten and vulnerable’.
06/11/2025 – The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has partnered with the UK’s leading end of life charity, Marie Curie, to fund a grant for new research aimed at improving the delivery of palliative and end of life care in Emergency Departments.
04/11/2025 – As Scotland’s Emergency Departments experienced the worst September on record for performance, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has asked the government ‘where is the tangible plan for winter?’
31/10/2025 – In response to Age UK’s new report, titled ‘The Longest Wait - Our A&E Crisis Demands an Emergency Response’, Dr Ian Higginson, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: “This report makes for incredibly distressing reading. It’s abundantly clear that older people are bearing the brunt
28/10/2025 – Dean of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Professor Simon Carley responds to the first phase of the Medical Training Review (MTR) into postgraduate training of newly qualified medics, published by NHS England last week (24 October 2025).
28/10/2025 – A plan which outlines NHS England’s priorities for the next three years ‘offers no meaningful roadmap’ to reduce dangerous long waits in Emergency Departments.
27/10/25 – “From an Urgent and Emergency Care perspective, there are no surprises” – Dr Ian Higginson, President of RCEM.
