14/08/25 – The government must heed the alarm bells ahead of winter as Emergency Departments across England experience substantial pressure over summer.
07/08/2025 – RCEM responds to GMC workplace experiences survey 2025.
01/07/2025 – The issue of people who are well enough to leave being stranded in hospital wards and occupying increasingly scarce inpatient beds must be addressed if Emergency Care in Scotland is to improve.
01/07/2025 – An Emergency Department in England has become the first to be awarded with the highest level of accreditation for environmental sustainability by The Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s GreenED programme.
24/06/2025 – The Holyrood government must prioritise record ‘delayed hospital discharges’ as a matter of urgency as the issue is causing the Urgent and Emergency Care system in Scotland to grind to a halt.
19/06/2025 – As the Wales government announces a multimillion-pound package to reduce elective waiting lists, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has warned they must also focus on extreme long waits in A&E which are putting vulnerable patients at risk.
Small improvements in A&E performance are hard to celebrate when almost one in 10 patients endured an extreme stay in England’s Emergency Departments last month. That’s the response from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine as the latest performance data, published today from NHS England, reveals 135,219 patients faced a wait
A new plan aimed at improving emergency care in England has been described as both ‘good and bad’ by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
Following the Scottish Health Minister stating he is ‘determined’ to cut elective waiting times the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has warned this cannot be the Government’s only focus. Today, 3 June 2025, new data detailing A&E performance in Scotland reveals that long waiting times in the country’s Emergency Departments and the
It is 10 years since the College of Emergency Medicine became the ‘Royal’ College of Emergency Medicine. This month (May 2025) four members of The College have attended Royal Garden parties at Buckingham Palace as RCEM marks the important milestone. At the start of the month, RCEM’s Vice President for
Effective advocacy and influencing by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has resulted in the creation of dozens of new EM consultant roles in Northern Ireland.
The significant impact of extreme waiting times that patients are enduring in A&E was highlighted by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine at the launch event of the new All Party Parliamentary Group on Emergency Care. The event, held last week (15 May 2025) in the Thames Pavilion at the
