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.
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. Â
RCEM Annual Report and Accounts for 2022 published
The document provides a detailed summary of the work of the college during the year.
RCEM Launches Election Manifesto
24 Hours in A&E – no longer just a TV show, a shameful reality for hundreds of thousands of people
RCEM warns ‘The emergency care system is under severe pressure’
New data show the significant effect of continual and increasing pressure faced by the emergency care system in England, as the Royal College of Emergency Medicine states ‘the emergency care system is under severe pressure’.
‘A catastrophic winter may lie ahead of us’ RCEM Wales warns
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has warned that ‘a catastrophic winter may lie ahead’ as the latest Welsh A&E data show that extreme pressures are already being experienced.
Last year was awful. We must not experience the same again this winter.
‘Everything must be done to ensure our members and their patients do not experience the same again this winter’, RCEM says
The RCEM Annual General Meeting
17:20 pm BST on Tuesday 8 October 2024 as part of our Annual Scientific Conference in Gateshead.
Fall in A&E performance ‘deeply worrying’ as winter looms
New data which shows more people experienced long waits in Welsh A&Es last month has been described as ‘deeply worrying’ by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
Good medical practice – why we all deserve to be RespectED at work
The General Medical Council has published an update of ‘Good medical practice’ which is defined as ‘detailing the principles, values and standards of doctors working in the UK’
Workforce planning and boosting capacity must go hand-in-hand
The government’s announcement of £250m funding to support the delivery of 900 hospital beds before the New Year must be backed by the staffing arrangements to support them
Minor improvements in performance welcome amid ‘substantial’ summer pressures on A&Es
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has responded to the latest Emergency Department performance statistics for July 2023.
RCEM makes front page news, as President expresses lack of confidence in winter planÂ
RCEM made front page news in the Independent…
Calls for NI Executive to get a grip of ‘challenging and demoralising’ pressures on A&Es
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has responded to April – June 2023 Emergency Department performance data for Northern Ireland.