Friday 3 January 2025 Dr (Surg Lt Cdr) Laura Cottey, an accomplished Royal Navy ST4 in Emergency Medicine (EM) working in the Peninsula Deanery was recently honoured with the prestigious Gilbert Blaine Medal. Dr Cottey has made significant strides in trauma research, focusing on mitochondrial dysfunction in critically ill patients.
Previous RCEM Clinical Studies Group meetings led by Professor Jason Smith have focussed around delivering the James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership top 10 Emergency Medicine Priorities.
19 December 2024 Year-on-year, there are four times as many people who have been hospitalised for flu so far in December 2024. And Emergency Medicine clinicians are still waiting for the government to act to mitigate the winter crisis in their A&Es as the pressure facing Urgent and Emergency Care
This two-day point of care emergency ultrasound (Level1) course is aimed at doctors working in acute care settings.
Monday 23 December 2024 Leading Emergency Medicine clinicians are urging parents and carers to be extra cautious with toys containing water beads, button batteries and super strong magnets this festive season. Doctors are warning these gifts could pose a danger to children and vulnerable adults if swallowed. The guidance, issued
A fully immersive cadaveric workshop focusing on life, limb and sight saving resuscitative procedures.
Thursday 19 December 2024 The Welsh government must ‘listen to those on the frontline’ of emergency care as health board issues capacity warning. This is the call from The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) as data shows more than one in seven people waited 12 hours or longer in
Monday 16 December 2024 The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has hit back at health service guidance detailing how patients can be ‘safely’ treated in corridors describing it as a “normalisation of the unacceptable and dangerous”. The RCEM Position Statement on NHS guidance for ‘providing care in temporary escalation spaces’
The Emergency Management of Severe Burns (EMSB) courses provides burn specific trauma management guidelines – multiple dates available.
12 December 2024 The Royal College of Emergency Medicine says it is ‘deeply concerned’ about the lack of political attention on the pressure facing Urgent and Emergency Care systems as winter hits. The College – which represents more the 13,000 front line Emergency Medicine clinicians – expressed its worries after
FAMUS and FUSIC courses are designed to enhance the ultrasound skills of healthcare professionals in acute and intensive care settings – multiple dates available.
Today’s budget released by the Scottish government is a “step in the right direction” but comes too late to ease the winter crisis already hitting some of the country’s A&Es.
