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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.
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RCEM publishes updated Promoting Excellence in Emergency Medicine Training guidance
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s Training Standards Committee (TSC) has published the updated Promoting Excellence in Emergency Medicine Training guidance, setting out clear and practical standards to support high-quality training environments across the UK.
‘A failure to act means more people will be left to grieve the loss of a loved one’ – Over 900 excess deaths associated with long A&E waits in Wales last year
25/11/25 – It comes as RCEM publishes it’s political manifesto ahead of next year’s election in Wales.
“Dismaying”: RCEM Wales demands action following worst October on record for A&E waits
21/11/25 – The latest performance data showed 10,493 people waited more than 12 hours before being admitted, discharged or transferred last month.
Registrations now open for EDs to participate in RCEM’s Quality Improvement Programme
19/11/2025 – Type 1 EDs can apply to take part in up to three different areas of research to drive action to improve the quality of Emergency Care in the UK.
RCEM welcomes £20 million investment to tackle Scotland’s challenging winter ahead
14/11/2025 – RCEM also responds to further winter plans announced by the Scottish government
RCEM supports Academy call to protect and promote clinical research across the NHS
17/11/2025 – The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) strongly supports the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Academic Leads Committee (AALC) Position Statement on Clinical Research
‘It’s a political failure’: England’s EDs experience second worst October on record for 12 hour waits
13/11/2025 – RCEM says NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care must focus on reducing the longest and most dangerous waits as Emergency Departments head into the depths of winter.
Statement on Resident Doctors’ industrial action
Resident Doctors in England will be striking between 14-19 November 2025.
‘A national shame’: Research reveals devastating reality of so called ‘corridor care’
10/11/2025 – Almost one in five patients in Emergency Departments were being cared for in trolleys or chairs in corridors in England this summer, with so-called ‘corridor care’ leaving people feeling ‘forgotten and vulnerable’.
RCEM and Marie Curie UK research grant to improve end of life care in Emergency Departments
06/11/2025 – The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has partnered with the UK’s leading end of life charity, Marie Curie, to fund a grant for new research aimed at improving the delivery of palliative and end of life care in Emergency Departments.
New film promotes a specialty to be proud of | Annual Conference 2026
https://youtu.be/qEvb_DgCLZE ‘This is the place for emergency medicine’ features real people working in emergency departments in Coventry and Manchester. Commissioned by the Royal College of
Targeting of healthcare facilities and workers during conflict – position statement by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine
(Updated 5 November 2025) Our emergency medicine colleagues based in areas of conflict work in often desperate conditions. Healthcare facilities are often subjected to direct
‘Where is the tangible plan for winter?’: RCEM asks Scottish government as Emergency Departments record worst-ever September performance
04/11/2025 – As Scotland’s Emergency Departments experienced the worst September on record for performance, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has asked the government ‘where is the tangible plan for winter?’
Black History Month Stories
In our last edition for Black History Month, we share two personal accounts from Dr. Phaedra Rampersad and Dr. Takura Razemba who teach us the importance of acknowledging the Windrush generation and how to use resilience to combat the trials that may arise.
RCEM responds to new Age UK report on corridor care
31/10/2025 – In response to Age UK’s new report, titled ‘The Longest Wait - Our A&E Crisis Demands an Emergency Response’, Dr Ian Higginson, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: “This report makes for incredibly distressing reading. It’s abundantly clear that older people are bearing the brunt of a system in crisis…
RCEM responds to NHSE’s Medical Training Review
28/10/2025 – Dean of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Professor Simon Carley responds to the first phase of the Medical Training Review (MTR) into postgraduate training of newly qualified medics, published by NHS England last week (24 October 2025).