The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has a dedicated communications team.
If you are a member of the media and you would like more information about the College and its work, or you would like to make a request to speak to one of our spokespeople, please contact the team via communications@rcem.ac.uk
We kindly ask you do not contact our spokespeople directly as they are all busy working Emergency Medicine clinicians and may not be in a position to respond.
Please contact the communications team and we will respond to you as soon as possible.
The communications team’s office hours are 9am – 5pm, Monday to Friday. But we are also contactable outside of these time for urgent media enquiries.
If you do want to contact us out of hours, please use the same email – communications@rcem.ac.uk – which is monitored closely by the communications team member on call, and we will respond promptly.
If you are interested in our latest analysis of NHS performance data, please visit our Data and Statistics page where you will find information and graphs. Please feel free to use these images in your coverage attributing them to RCEM.
Consultant’s Personal Commitment to RCEM’s Latest Quality Improvement Programme
A doctor with a life-changing illness is behind a new RCEM QIP on Time Critical Medications for safer A&E visits.
‘Patients deserve better’ as one in six patients face 12 hour waits
The RCEM has said “our patients deserve better” as the latest A&E performance figures for Northern Ireland show one in six patients faced a 12 hour wait in A&E between July and September 2023.
EMSAS Chair Elections: Make Your Vote Count
RCEM’s members get the opportunity to have their say in the upcoming EMSAS Chair election.
MPs lay out ‘the damning reality of emergency care’ in new report, RCEM says
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has described a new report by MPs as laying out the ‘the damning reality of emergency care’.
Calls for the Welsh Government to ‘publish a comprehensive winter plan’
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has urged the Welsh Government to ‘publish a comprehensive winter plan’
RCEM Breach Exemption Q&A
A guide to Breach Exemptions and how they impact official Welsh A&E attendance and waiting time data
System wide approach essential to save the health and social care system
The RCEM says a ‘system-wide approach’ is essential to save a health and social care system itself in need of intensive care and has called on the government to provide the staff, investment and capacity needed for meaningful improvement and change.
RCEM stands by concerns over Welsh A&E waiting time data
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has forced the Welsh Government to admit it has been misrepresenting the extent of waiting times in the country’s A&E departments for years.
New Pricing Models to be Introduced
New pricing structures for different aspects of the College’s services are being introduced.
Failure to tackle waits could lead to ‘devastating repeat of last year’
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has warned that a failure to tackle long waits in A&E could lead to a ‘devastating repeat of last year’ when almost 400,000 patients waited 24 hours or more in A&E.
Winter plan ‘not enough to prepare the emergency care system for tough winter ahead’
The winter plan published by the Department of Health Northern Ireland has been described as “disappointing” by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
RCEM Gets Ready For #SASWeek23
RCEM will be celebrating SAS Week from 9 to 13 October by sharing and praising the great efforts of the entire specialty.
Huge increase in extreme A&E waits ‘dangerous and shameful’
More than 10 times as many people waited over 12 hours in Scottish A&Es in August 2023 than in August 2019 – an increase branded ‘dangerous and shameful’ by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
The figure has been calculated using data published today (3 October 2023) by Public Health Scotland which reveal how many people visited a major Emergency Department in Scotland in August 2023.
RCEM Members Vote For New 2024 Fee Structure
Members of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine have voted to increase the College’s annual subscription rates…
RCEM Annual General Meeting Summary 2023
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine held its Annual General Meeting this evening (26 September 2023) at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow.
RCEM Annual Report and Accounts for 2022 published
The document provides a detailed summary of the work of the college during the year.