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South East Coast Emergency Medicine & Wellbeing Conference
Brighton, Friday 24 June 2022
Brighton, Friday 24 June 2022
Congratulating HM The Queen on her Platinum Jubilee, Dr Katherine Henderson, President of The Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said:
“The Royal College is both honoured and privileged to be incorporated by Royal Charter and proud to have HRH The Princess Royal as our esteemed Patron. We congratulate Her Majesty
Closing date – 22 June 2022 (5pm)
A new report by The Royal College of Emergency Medicine ‘Beds in the NHS’ shows that 13,000 staffed beds are required in the NHS across the UK to drive meaningful change and improvement. Meaningful change and improvement would constitute a significant improvement in A&E waiting times, ambulance response times, ambulance
Over the past five years hospital admissions for eating disorders have risen by 84%. Hospital admissions of children and adolescents for eating disorders have risen 35% since last year alone. We know that some of these patients will come through Emergency Departments and the urgent and emergency care pathway.
This event gives insight into the physical and mental impact of eating disorders on patients and their carers. It will introduce the new Medical Emergencies in Eating Disorders (MEED) guidelines which are essential for correctly managing these patients in the ED.
On Monday 16 May, we informed 50 candidates who sat the March 2022 FRCEM SBA examination that a fault occurred with our examination system, which resulted in those candidates incorrectly being told that they had passed the exam. We have offered the affected candidates our sincere apologies and have also
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine recently experienced a technical fault that led to a small number of candidates being incorrectly informed that they had passed the March 2022 FRCEM SBA examination. All affected candidates have now been directly notified of this error and our main priority is to provide
Responding to the latest Emergency Care Waiting Time Statistics (January – March 2022) published by the Department of Health Northern Ireland, Dr Paul Kerr, Vice President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Northern Ireland, said:
Responding to the latest Emergency Department performance figures published by NHS England for April 2022, Dr Katherine Henderson, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said:
For the avoidance of doubt: we are aware of recent comments on social media regarding ACPs in Emergency Medicine. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine stands fully with our ACP colleagues who are an invaluable part of the EM workforce.
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