Friday 3 January 2025 An increase in flu hospitalisations is causing severe pressure in already overstretched Emergency Departments. This is the message from The Royal College of Emergency Medicine as NHS England data shows hospitalisations due to flu quadrupled ahead of New Year. The latest NHS England winter ‘situation reports’
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.
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
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
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’
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
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.
Ashleigh Lowther is RCEM’s ACP Chair and an Advanced Clinical Practitioner specialising in Adult and Paediatric Emergency Care. She has the important role of advocating for RCEM’s ACP members. In this blog she explains her role and calls on ACPs to help advocate for the position.
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has joined calls for the Scottish government to address ‘delayed hospital discharges’ in the upcoming budget announcement.
Following the success of its first GreenED accreditations, RCEM has released details for EDs so they can begin joining its Spring 2025 cohort.
Voting for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s next Vice Chair Scotland opens tomorrow (4 November 2024).
