New RCEM President takes office
Friday 12 September 2025 The new President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has formally taken office. Dr Ian Higginson was handed leadership
Prepare A&Es for winter now, says RCEM Scotland, as no respite in sight
As a dire winter for Scotland’s A&Es looms, new analysis by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine shows that too many people are enduring extremely long waits.
Northern Ireland’s Emergency Care system in ‘critical condition’ says RCEM
28/08/2025 – Latest Emergency Department performance figures for the country show seasonal 12-hour waits hit record high – with people waiting ‘days’ for an inpatient bed.
Summer surge must be ‘huge wake up call’ for Welsh government as winter looms
21/08/25 – The Royal College of Emergency Medicine Wales responds as 12 hour ED waits hit 2025 high.
‘If this is summer, what will winter be like?’: England’s EDs experience second worse July on record for 12 hour waits
14/08/25 – The government must heed the alarm bells ahead of winter as Emergency Departments across England experience substantial pressure over summer.
‘Emergency Medicine clinicians are struggling to do the one thing they came into medicine to do – provide care’
07/08/2025 – RCEM responds to GMC workplace experiences survey 2025.
‘The evidence to address delayed discharges continues to mount’: RCEM
01/07/2025 – The issue of people who are well enough to leave being stranded in hospital wards and occupying increasingly scarce inpatient beds must be addressed if Emergency Care in Scotland is to improve.
RCEM’s GreenED Programme announces first ‘Gold’ standard department
01/07/2025 – An Emergency Department in England has become the first to be awarded with the highest level of accreditation for environmental sustainability by The Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s GreenED programme.
RCEM describes record delayed discharges in Scotland ‘deeply concerning and distressing’
24/06/2025 – The Holyrood government must prioritise record ‘delayed hospital discharges’ as a matter of urgency as the issue is causing the Urgent and Emergency Care system in Scotland to grind to a halt.
Extreme ED wait times in Wales can’tbe a political afterthought: RCEM
19/06/2025 – As the Wales government announces a multimillion-pound package to reduce elective waiting lists, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has warned they must also focus on extreme long waits in A&E which are putting vulnerable patients at risk.
‘Slight improvements hard to celebrate when thousands of people are enduring extreme A&E waits’: RCEM
Small improvements in A&E performance are hard to celebrate when almost one in 10 patients endured an extreme stay in England’s Emergency Departments last month.
Government’s New Urgent and Emergency Care plan ‘good and bad’ – RCEM
A new plan aimed at improving emergency care in England has been described as both ‘good and bad’ by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
RCEM: Government must address elective care waits AND long ED stays – both must be political priorities
Following the Scottish Health Minister stating he is ‘determined’ to cut elective waiting times the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has warned this cannot be the Government’s
RCEM celebrates decade of being the ‘Royal’ College of Emergency Medicine
It is 10 years since the College of Emergency Medicine became the ‘Royal’ College of Emergency Medicine. This month (May 2025) four members of The
RCEM work secures expansion of EM Consultants in Northern Ireland
Effective advocacy and influencing by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has resulted in the creation of dozens of new EM consultant roles in Northern Ireland.
RCEM highlights UEC crisis at APPG on Emergency Care launch event in Westminster
The significant impact of extreme waiting times that patients are enduring in A&E was highlighted by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine at the launch