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.
EDs in Wales experience yet another record setting month for worst ever performance: RCEM
19/03/26 – As the Welsh government celebrates a record drop in elective waiting lists, RCEM has warned the ‘worst’ record setting in ED must come to an end as it’s putting vulnerable people at risk.
Increase in physical violence and discrimination against NHS staff ‘disgraceful, appalling and so much more’: RCEM
12/03/2026 – The NHSE Staff Survey for 2025 found almost one in seven staff (14.47%) experienced at least one incident of physical violence by a patient or the public last year – the highest in three years.
Not the time for complacency, RCEM says, as slight ED performance improvements overshadowed by further deterioration elsewhere
12/03/2026 – Slight improvements in some aspects of A&E performance in England must be treated with caution, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine says today.
RCEM President to MPs: Corridor care is “a national issue, a national crisis and I believe a national scandal”
11/03/2026 – Dr Ian Higginson has appeared in parliament to give evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee on the state of corridor care in England.
‘Morale is non-existent’: Clinicians sound alarm over patient safety concerns in England’s Emergency Departments
11/03/2026 – More than half of Emergency Department Clinical Leads in England who responded to a survey by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said their A&E was unsafe for patients.
Almost 900 excess deaths from long A&E waits in Scotland as ‘heartbreaking’ state of hospital system laid bare
07/03/2026 – Dr Fiona Hunter, RCEM Vice President for Scotland, responds to analysis from the Scottish Liberal Democrats, which suggested that there were 871 deaths in Emergency Departments (EDs) associated with a 12 or more hour wait for admission.
Blog: Boarding Medical Patients in the ED is the Key, and it’s a Fixable Problem
09/03/2026 – Nicholas Howlett, James Cameron, and Richard Wood delve into their research, published in the EMJ, on the link between longer stays in A&E and mortality rates.
Emergency Departments face ‘bleak scenes’ as winter crisis continues amid severe bed shortage, says RCEM
05/03/2026 – The crisis in English Emergency Departments is fixable, if government and health service leaders are willing to act on bed capacity in our hospitals.
NHS England corridor care definition interesting but meaningful change must follow
04/03/2026 – A unified definition on corridor care is an interesting approach – but only if meaningful action follows.
Scottish A&E 12-hour waits hit ‘grim milestone’ of 10,000 in worst month on record
03/03/2026 – Emergency Departments (EDs) in Scotland are in dire need of attention by whoever forms the next government in May, as unwanted records for four, eight and 12-hour waits continue to be set.
Delayed discharges put patients in danger, latest statistics show
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) is calling for action after new weekly performance figures for England released today show an increase in patients remaining in hospital despite being medically fit to leave – as well as considerable time being lost due to ambulance handover delays.
MRCEM SBA Results Issue
25.02.26 – On Tuesday 24 February 2026, a small number of candidates logged into their RCEM Account and were accidentally able to view pre-adjudication data within the results field for the MRCEM SBA exam. We apologise for any confusion or distress to affected candidates but can assure you the results to be published to you tomorrow are accurate and correct.
‘A matter of life and death’: 1 in 3 sickest Emergency Department patients experiencing corridor care in Wales, RCEM calls for next government to act now on overcrowding
24/02/2026 – And that’s on a “quieter” day according to some top Emergency Medicine doctors.
RCEM issues practical guidance on defining Training Time as 40 hours per week
23/02/26 – The College has now released detailed guidance to support consistent application of the principle that RCEM defines ‘full-time’ training in Emergency Medicine as 40-hours a week.
A&Es deliver estimated 131,502kg of CO2e savings through latest cycle of RCEM’s GreenED Programme
20/02/26 – This result underscores the achievements of eleven EDs which have been awarded a GreenED accreditation.
‘The chaos continues’: sustained winter pressures batter an underprepared Emergency Care system, says RCEM
19/02/2026 – The government and health service leaders must pay attention to the chaos inside Emergency Departments this winter, which are buckling under the pressure because of a failure to prepare for predictable surges in seasonal illnesses.