11/12/2025 – RCEM is warning that fractional improvements to some “dismal” A&E performance metrics should not mask the “worryingly high” number of people waiting over 12 hours on trolleys.
9/12/25 – RCEM has welcomed a new paper which highlights the issue of corridor care and the risks it poses to patients – and has called on governments across the UK to fast track efforts to tackle the problem.
05/12/25 Responding to comments from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP, confirming his commitment to end ‘corridor care’ by 2029, the President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr Ian Higginson, said: “Corridor care is the biggest challenge currently
04/12/2025 – An early flu surge is starting to add to pressure on Emergency Departments in England, leaving frontline staff fighting an uphill battle to provide urgent care.
03/12/2025 – Dr Ian Higginson, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, responds to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) report “Bracing for Winter”.
02/12/2025 – The Scottish government must take urgent action on overcrowding and delayed discharges, or Emergency Departments (EDs) in Scotland will be completely swamped – and patients will be the ones who suffer.
02/12/2025 – Dr Ian Higginson, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, responds to new analysis of Emergency Department (ED) waiting times by the Liberal Democrat Party.
27/11/25 – Vice President of RCEM, Maya Naravi, responds to the General Medical Council’s state of medical education and practice in the UK: workforce report 2025.
27/11/25 – The government has taken some positive steps to bolster the NHS today – but the Autumn Budget doesn’t offer anything to address extremely long waiting times and so called ‘corridor care’ in Emergency Departments.
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
