Friday 12 September 2025 The new President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has formally taken office. Dr Ian Higginson was handed leadership of RCEM by Dr Adrian Boyle, who has served as President since 2022, during the College’s Annual General Meeting on 11 September 2025.  Dr Higginson’s
As a dire winter for Scotland’s A&Es looms, new analysis by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine shows that too many people are enduring extremely long waits.
28/08/2025 – Latest Emergency Department performance figures for the country show seasonal 12-hour waits hit record high – with people waiting ‘days’ for an inpatient bed.
21/08/25 – The Royal College of Emergency Medicine Wales responds as 12 hour ED waits hit 2025 high.
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.
