The government’s pre-budget health funding announcement offers little reassurance to Emergency Clinicians or their patients’ ahead of what could be ‘most challenging winter’ yet.

Responding to the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) State of Care report 2023/24, Dr Ian Higginson, Vice President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: “This report, like so many others, reinforces what RCEM has been saying, and sadly will be of no surprise to our members and patients. It

The Welsh government must prioritise reducing Emergency Department waiting times alongside specialty waiting lists.

The Northern Ireland Executive must act now to avoid a ‘disastrous winter’ for patients seeking care in the country’s A&Es, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has warned.

In response to the analysis from the Liberal Democrats showing more than one million patients waited 12 hours or more in A&E this year, Dr Ian Higginson, Vice President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: “Once again we commend the Liberal Democrats for keeping this hugely important issue

As the government announces its public consultation on the long-term future of the NHS, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has warned it not to lose focus on the current crisis affecting A&Es.

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has joined the call for action to address “systemic issues across UK healthcare” following a report into inequality in the industry.

Patron of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal addressed more than 300 delegates at RCEM’s Annual Scientific Conference in Gateshead last week (10 October 2024).

As winter looms, and with many Emergency Departments already experiencing unsustainable pressure, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has urged NHSE to focus on reducing the longest and most dangerous A&E waits.

The Scottish government is ‘not doing enough’ to prevent another winter crisis in A&Es, as overcrowding continues to make delivering safe care ‘a challenge’.

The Scottish government must heed the ‘alarms bells’ as new A&E data suggests another very challenging winter ahead.

The scale of the mountain the government must climb to resuscitate the emergency care system and ‘fix’ what is ‘broken’ has been laid bare with the release of new data by NHS England.