RCEM Position and Advisory Statements
This section includes position or advisory statements issued by RCEM.
The topics include clinical as well as service delivery related issues.
To contact RCEM regarding these statements please email quality@rcem.ac.uk.
- Advisory Statement on Time Critical Medication Self- Administration in Emergency Departments (March 2025)
- Spiking (December 2024 – updated from July 2022)
- Position Statement on NHSE Guidance ‘Principles for providing safe and good quality care in temporary escalation spaces’ (December 2024)
- Management of Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department Who May Require an Emergency Laparotomy (October 2024)
- Recommendations for Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Seizures (August 2024)
- Site Specific Reporting Against Emergency Access Standards and Reporting of Disaggregated Data (May 2024)
- Measles (March 2024)
- Right Care, Right Person (March 2024)
- Cauda Equina Syndrome (March 2024)
- Head Injuries in asymptomatic patients on anticoagulant or antiplatelet therapy (March 2024)
- Paediatric Early Warning Scores (January 2024)
- Pharmacists & Pharmacy Services in the Emergency Department (December 2023)
- Clinical Responsibility for Patients Within the Emergency Department (October 2023)
- Emergency CT Scans Requiring IV Iodinated Contrast Agent (May 2023)
- Use of the SNAP Regimen for the Treatment of Paracetamol Toxicity in adults and children (May 2023)
- Artificial Intelligence (December 2022)
- Shortage of Alteplase and Tenecteplase Injections – Position Statement – (August 2022)
- Drink Spiking – (July 2022)
- Use of Body Cameras in the ED – (July 2022)
- Ambulances Handover Delays: Options Appraisal to Support Good Decision Making (March 2021)
- UK NHS Ambulance Services pre-alert guideline for the deteriorating adult patient
- EM Advanced Clinical Practitioners providing safe sedation in the adult Emergency Department (November 2020)
- Governance responsibilities for patients who do not attend booked appointments in Emergency Departments (Oct 2020)
- RCEM & NASMeD: The management of ADULT cardiac arrest patients taken to EDs during the Covid-19 Pandemic (June 2020)
- ED Doctors performing Mental Health Act assessments in England and Wales (Apr 2020)
- Cauda Equina Syndrome (Feb 2020)
- Paediatric Trauma: Stabilisation of the Cervical Spine (Jan 2020)
- Winter pressures in children’s emergency care settings (November 2019)
- Improving Quality Indicators & System Metrics for EDs in England (March 2019)
- Advanced Life Support (February 2019)
- CQUIN to reduce attendances by frequent attenders and mental health attendances (Aug 2017)
- Ambulatory Emergency Care Position Statement (Jul 2017)
- Complications of Early Pregnancy and the role of the ED (Apr 2017)
- Resuscitative Thoracotomy in Trauma Units (Apr 2017)
- RCEM Response to RCR Imaging in Paediatric Trauma Guidelines (Mar 2017)
- Emergency Airway Management (Dec 2015)
- Acute Ischaemic Stroke and Intravenous Thrombolysis (Dec 2015)
- Alcohol related harm (May 2015)
- Needlesticks – ED care of patients potentially exposed to blood borne viruses (Feb 2013)
- Providing pre-transfusion blood samples for Police (Oct 2011)
- Triage – published by CEM, ENCA, FEN & RCN (April 2011)
- Unscheduled Care Facilities – Minimum requirements for units which see the less seriously ill or injured. Published by CEC, ENCA, FEN & RCN (July 2009)
