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A Guide to Section 136 for Emergency Departments

Abuse of health & care staff – Joint Statement

ACCS End of Placement Report’s Preview

ACP Credentialing Checklist (2017 curriculum) – Adults

ACP Credentialing Checklist (2017 curriculum) – Children

ACP Credentialing Checklist (2017 curriculum) – Dual

ACP Faculty Educational Governance Statement’s Preview

Acute Aortic Dissection Programme – 7 June 2022

Acute Care Assessment 2021

Advice for Clinicians Involved in ED IT Procurement

Alcohol: A Toolkit for Improving Care

Ambulance Handover Delays: Options Appraisal to Support Good Decision Making

Ambulatory Care: Ambulance Services Pre-alert Guideline for the Deteriorating Adult Patient

Ambulatory Care: Emergency Toolkit

Ambulatory Care: Operational Guide

Ambulatory Emergency Care Toolkit

Annual Quality Report 2021-22

AoMRC statement on professionalism and article in The Times

AoMRC statement on vaccination and second doses (Jan 2021)

ARCP Form’s Preview

Assessing Cognitive Impairment in Older People

Assessing for Cognitive Impairment in Older People National Results

Assessing for Cognitive Impairment in Older People Information Pack

Assessment of Risk During the Maternity Pathway

Best Practice: A brief guide to Section 136 for EDs

Best Practice: A Universal FGM Flowchart and Reporting Tool

Best Practice: Acute Behavioural Disturbance in Emergency Departments

Best Practice: Acute Opioid Toxicity

Best Practice: Chaperones in Emergency Departments

Best Practice: Collaborative Working Between Emergency and Critical Care

Best Practice: College Publications Template

Best Practice: Consent in Adults, Adolescents and Children in EDs

Best Practice: Diagnosis of Thoracic Aortic Dissection

Best Practice: Discharge to General Practice

Best Practice: Drug Misuse and the Emergency Department

Best Practice: Ebola Guidance

Best Practice: ED Infection Prevention and Control during the Coronavirus Pandemic

Best Practice: Emergency Department Care

Best Practice: Emergency Department Out of Hours Discharge Medications

Best Practice: Emergency Department Patients in Police Custody

Best Practice: Fascia Iliaca Block in the Emergency Department

Best Practice: Frequent Attendance in the Emergency Department

Best Practice: Frequent Attenders in the Emergency Department

Best Practice: Giving Information to Patients in the Emergency Department

Best Practice: Guideline for Information Sharing to Reduce Community Violence

Best Practice: HIV Testing in the Emergency Department

Best Practice: Inclusion Health in the ED

Best Practice: Ingestion of Super Strong Magnets in Children

Best Practice: Invasive Procedures in the Emergency Department

Best Practice: Ketamine Procedural Sedation for Children in the ED

Best Practice: Management of Adult Patients Who Attend ED After Sexual Assault and / or Rape

Best Practice: Management of Controlled Energy Device (Taser) Attendances

Best Practice: Management of Domestic Abuse

Best Practice: Management of Investigation Results in the ED

Best Practice: Management of Pain in Adults

Best Practice: Management of Pain in Children

Best Practice: Management of Suspected Internal Drug Trafficker

Best Practice: Measuring the Quality of Patient Care in the ED

Best Practice: Patient Care in the ED

Best Practice: Patients with a Diagnosis of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Best Practice: Pharmacological Agents for Procedural Sedation and Analgesia

Best Practice: Providing a Witness Statement for the Police

Best Practice: Providing Patient Information in the Emergency Department

Best Practice: Reducing Redundant Activity in the Acute Setting

Best Practice: Screening in the Emergency Department

Best Practice: The Patient Who Absconds

Best Practice: Traumatic Cardiac Arrest in Adults

Buddy System (April 2020)

Cancellation of examinations

Care of Older People in the ED – QIP Information Pack

Children’s Mental Health Risk Pathway Assessment

Clinical Responsibility for Patients Within the Emergency Department

Clinically Ready to Proceed

CMO for England statement on the Wuhan novel coronavirus

Colleges joint letter to Lord Deighton about PPE

Concussion and Sport Patient Advice Leaflet

Consultant Sign Off QIP Information Pack

Consultant Sign Off Report 2021-22

Coronavirus (Covid-19) guidance for clinicians

Coronavirus: latest information and advice

COVID-19 Experiences from doctors in UK and Australia – a conversation

Covid-19: Airway Management in the Pandemic

Covid-19: All That Glitters – Things to Remember During the Pandemic

Covid-19: Children Clinical Brief

Covid-19: ED Infection Prevention and Control during Covid-19 Pandemic

Covid-19: Emergency Department Care Record

Covid-19: Explaining the Legal and Ethical Dimensions

Covid-19: Herd Wellbeing and Resilience

Covid-19: Individual Wellbeing and Resilience

Covid-19: Paediatric Emergency Department Care Record

Covid-19: Safety Alert – People with Diabetes

Covid-19: Salbutamol peak flow and nebulisation advice

Crib Sheet for Care in Children QIP

CT Scans Requiring IV Iodinated Contrast Agent

Discharge to General Practice

Doctoral Research Fellowship 2022

Ebola: EPRR CRG Opinion on emergency care for Ebola

Ebola: Rapid Risk Assessment

Ebola: RCEM Letter to Clinicians – Travel History

EC-ACP Guide to Credentialing

Education Strategy

Educational Meeting 2015 Curriculum’s Preview

Educational Meeting CT1/ST1 – CT2/ST2’s Preview

Educational Meeting ST3 – ST7’s Preview

Educational Meeting: Supplementary Review’s Preview

Educational Supervisor Report ACCS’s Preview

Educational Supervisor Report Covid-19: HST’s Preview

Educational Supervisor Report Covid-19: Intermediate’s Preview

EM Advanced Clinical Practitioners providing safe sedation in the adult ED

EM-POWER: A practical guide to flexible working and good EM rota design

EM-POWER: Returning to EM Clinical Practice

Emergency Airway Management

EMJ Podcast: Can Covid-19 be an opportunity for the future of Emergency Departments?

EMSAS Person Specification for Specialist Doctors

Environmental Sustainability in EM

Equality & Diversity Guidance

Equality and Diversity – presentation about the Black Lives Matter movement and structural racism in the NHS

Faculty Education Governance Statement – Interim / Formative

Faculty Education Governance Statement – Intermediate ST3 Trainee

Faculty Education Governance Statement – ST4 & ST5

Faculty Education Governance Statement – ST6 Trainee

Gemnet: Thromboprophylaxis Example Protocol

Gemnet: Thromboprophylaxis in Ambulatory Trauma Patients Requiring Temporary Limb Immobilisation

General Anaesthesia for an ASA I/II Patient Having Uncomplicated Surgery

Guidance for emergency departments: initial assessment

Heat Related Illness – NASMeD Guidance of July 2022

Holistic Assessment of Learning Outcomes – HALO

How to Login to Kaizen

IAC Initial Assessment of Competence Certificate’s Preview

Improving Hip Fracture Care in the ED Toolkit

Improving Hospital Flow for Urgent Care

Improving Medical Pathways for Acute Care

Infection Prevention and Control – National Report 2020-2021

Infection Prevention and Control – Year 2 Report

Infection Prevention Control QIP National Report 2022-23

Initial Assessment of Emergency Department Managers

Joint letter to Foreign Secretary 2021: UN Political Declaration

Joint letter to Jeremy Hunt urges government to show support for health workers and facilities being targeted as acts of war

Joint Statement Calling for Urgent Release of Professor Maw Maw Oo

Joint statement from medical royal colleges and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges on the Conservative leadership contest

Joint Statement on Myanmar

Joint Statement RCEM and SAM regarding Same Day Emergency Care

Katherine Henderson speaks to Simon Carley on the RCEM CPD Podcast featuring an important update on the latest RCEM policy

Ketamine Procedural Sedation for Children in ED’s

Learning Disabilities in the ED Toolkit

Learning from the first phase of the Coronavirus Pandemic (November 2020)

Legal Learning Case: Accurate Waiting Time Information

Letter from HM Treasury to Dr Katherine Henderson

Letter to Foreign Secretary – UN Political Declaration – March 2021

Letter to the Chancellor Regarding the Spring Budget (March 2021)

Letter to the Chancellor Regarding the Spring Budget 2021

Letter to the Foreign Secretary calling for the release of Professor Maw Maw Oo (6 July 2021)

Letter to the profession from CMOs, NHS and Colleges

Management of Adolescent Young Adults in the ED

Management of Adult Cardiac Arrest Patients Taken to EDs during Covid-19

Manchester Triage System Update Letter

Marking Exams by the Angoff Method

MCR / MTR ACCS’s Preview

Mental Health (Self Harm) 2022-23 Interim Report

Mental Health (Self Harm) QIP Information Pack 22-24

Mental Health (Self-Harm) Quality Improvement Project National Report

Mental Health Audit Information Pack 2019

Mental Health National Report 2019/20

Mental Health National Slides 2019/20

Mental Health Newsletter August 2019

Mental Health Newsletter June 2020

Mental Health Newsletter October 2019

Mild Head Injury Patient Advice Leaflet

MRCEM OSCE Information and Regulations

National QIP User Guide

National QIP User Guide 2022/23

National Quality Improvement Project (QIP) User Guide 2022

National Recruitment 2021 – EM ACCS

National Survey on Mental Health Services for Children and Young People

NHSE UEC Recovery 10 Point Action Plan – (September 2021)

Nitrous Oxide & Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine

Op Courage: The Veterans Mental Health & Wellbeing Service (August 2021)

Pain in Children National Report

Pain in Children National Report 2021-22

Pain in Children QIP Information Pack

Paracetamol Overdose Guidance

Performing an Anaesthetic Pre-Operative Assessment’s Preview

Pharmacists and Pharmacy Services in the Emergency Department

PhD Fellowship Scheme & Guidance

PiPP Project: Key Study Recommendations

Position statement on drink spiking

Position Statement: Acute Ischaemic Stroke and Intravenous Thrombolysis

Position Statement: Advanced Life Support

Position Statement: Alcohol Related Harm

Position Statement: Care of patients exposed to blood borne viruses by needlesticks

Position Statement: Cauda Equina Syndrome

Position Statement: Complications of Early Pregnancy and the role of the Emergency Department

Position Statement: CQUIN to Reduce Frequent Attenders and Mental Health Attendances

Position Statement: ED Doctors Performing Mental Health Act Assessments

Position statement: Governance responsibilities for patients who do not attend booked appointments in Emergency Departments

Position Statement: Improving Quality Indicators and System Metrics for EDs in England

Position Statement: Paediatric Trauma – Stabilisation of the Cervical Spine

Position Statement: Providing pre-transfusion blood samples for the police

Position Statement: Public Health in Emergency Medicine

Position Statement: Resuscitative Thoracotomy in Trauma Units

Position Statement: The case for a radical shake up of the Emergency Care system in England before winter

Position Statement: Triage

Position Statement: Winter pressures in children’s emergency care settings

Postponement of January MRCEM OSCE

PPE Ethnic Minorities and Risk in EDs During the Pandemic

Proposal for Health & Social Care Select Committee Prevention Inquiry

Psychological Distress and Trauma in Doctors Providing Frontline Care

Psychologically Informed Practice and Policy (PIPP) Study – Executive Summary

QIP: Infection Prevention and Control Information Pack

Quality Strategy Part A January 2022

RCEM & ACEM joint statement on Covid-19

RCEM & Healthwatch – FAQs on NHS 111 First

RCEM & NASMeD Adult Cardiac Arrest Arrival at ED document summary statement

RCEM & NASMeD: The management of ADULT cardiac arrest patients taken to EDs during the Covid-19 Pandemic

RCEM Acute Insight Series: Crowding and its Consequences

RCEM Acute Insight Series: Impact of staff burnout and retention

RCEM Acute Insight Series: What’s Behind the Increase in Demand in EDs?

RCEM and RCPCH position statement on winter pressures in children’s emergency care settings

RCEM CARES – Crowding policymaker brief (November 2020)

RCEM CARES – Retention – Policymaker Brief for MPs (England)

RCEM CARES: Retention Policymaker Brief for MPs

RCEM CARES: Safety: Policymaker brief

RCEM CARES: Spotlight on: Access Joint letter to Trust CEOs with RCP and SAM

RCEM CARES: Spotlight on: Crowding – Policy Maker brief – Wales

RCEM CARES: Spotlight on: Crowding (Scotland)

RCEM CARES: Spotlight On: Safety

RCEM CARES: The Next Phase

RCEM Committee Structure Chart

RCEM Complaints Policy Procedures

RCEM Consultant Workforce Recommendations

RCEM endorses new FICM guidance on care at the end of life

RCEM Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Statement on Terminology

RCEM Explains long waits and excess mortality

RCEM Explains: Hospital Beds MP Briefing

RCEM Explains: NHS Recovery Plan: One Year On

RCEM FICM joint statement on winter pressures (2018)

RCEM Guidance: Mental Health Toolkit 2019

RCEM Guidance: What to do if your ED is becoming crowded again after the initial Covid-19 period

RCEM Healthcare Quality Improvement Plan 2025

RCEM joins Medical Royal Colleges to call for urgent review of UK preparedness for second Covid-19 wave

RCEM launch new Education Strategy

RCEM National Quality Improvement Projects 2019/20 – Care of Children Report (January 2021)

RCEM Oral Questions Briefing: House of Lords

RCEM Position Statement – Artificial Intelligence

RCEM Position Statement ‘Covid-19: Resetting Emergency Department Care’

RCEM Position Statement: Cauda Equina Syndrome

RCEM Position Statement: Patients who do not attend appointments in EDs

RCEM Position Statement: Use of the SNAP Regime for the Treatment of Paracetamol Toxicity

RCEM Progress Against Delivery Plan

RCEM Quality Improvement Guide

RCEM release position statement on metrics to supplement four-hour target

RCEM Scotland Position Statement: The Four-Hour Emergency Access Standard

RCEM Statement on MRCEM OSCE examination in March 2021

RCEM Statement on the FRCEM OSCE on 2-10 November

RCEM Statement on the May 2021 FRCEM OSCE (July 2021)

RCEM Statement on Vaccine Hesitancy

RCEM Statement on Vaccine Hesitancy (March 2021)

RCEM Statement regarding shortage of Alteplase and Tenecteplase injections

RCEM TSC Advice for Shielding Trainees

RCEM Wales Manifesto

RCP Cymru Wales: Royal colleges call for national action to prepare for winter

Rebuilding the NHS better medical pathways for Acute Care

Reconfiguring Emergency Medicine Services

Reducing unnecessary cannulation in the ED

Regional Holding Centres for Category C Antidotes

Resetting Emergency Care – Position Statement

Resource Toolkits: Sepsis

Response to HSCS inquiry into winter planning

Response to RCR Imaging in Paediatric Trauma Guidelines

Response to the Clinical Review of Standards Consultation

Results of the June 2021 MRCEM OSCE

Retain, Recruit, Recover

Retain, Recruit, Recover – Call for action to improve urgent & emergency care

Royal Colleges appeal to Select Committee for ‘urgent action’ to make hospitals safe

Safety Flash: Anorexia Nervosa

Safety Flash: Cortico-Steroid Dependency

Safety Flash: Covid-19 – PPE Buddy System

Safety Flash: Glycerol Toxicity from Slushies

Safety Flash: Handlebar Injuries in Children

Safety Flash: Major Trauma in Older People (ISS > 15)

Safety Flash: Mpox Outbreak

Safety Flash: Nitrous Oxide – It’s not a laughing matter

Safety Flash: Pabrinex Shortage

Safety Flash: Shortages of Alteplase and Tenecteplase

Safety Flash: Time Critical Medication

Safety Flash: Undetected button and coin cell battery ingestion in children

Safety Flash: World Patient Safety Day

Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) Frailty Toolkit

Scotlands Emergency Medicine Workforce Census

Security & Restraint Survey Report

Service Design Delivery Toolkit (2013)

Side by side: A UK-wide consensus statement on working together to help patients with mental health needs in acute hospitals

SNAP Regimen Treatment of Paracetamol Toxicity

Statement from the Secretary of State on the Clinician Pension Tax Scheme

Statement on the Consultant Sign-off QIP – January 2024

Statement on the FRCEM Final SAQ examination 9 July sitting

Structured Training Report 2015 Curriculum

Summer to Recover: A Guide for Clinical Leads

Summer to Recover: Winter-proofing Urgent and Emergency Care for 2021

Supporting doctors in the event of a Covid-19 Epidemic in the UK

Survey of Children and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) Services in the Emergency Department

Suspected Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome

The Management of Emergency Department Crowding

The RCEM End of Life Care Toolkit

The role of pharmacists in the ED

Toxicology: RCEM NPIS Antidote Guideline Letter

Trainee Emergency Research Network (TERN) Fellowship 2021

UEC Recovery 10 Point Action Plan – Implementation guide

UK CMOs, NHS, GMC & AoMRC joint letter of support

Understanding SPC Charts

Unscheduled Care Facilities: Minimum requirements for units which see the less seriously ill or injured

Update on adjustments to FRCEM QIP marking in light of Covid-19

Update on oversubscribed November FRCEM OSCE

UPDATED: RCEM Wellness Compendium

Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery 10 Point Action Plan – Briefing

Vaccine Pathway Concerns – RCEM/SAM/RCP Guidance

Wales’ Emergency Medicine Workforce Census 2023

What’s Behind the Increase in Demand in Emergency Departments? (August 2021)

Your Questions about the Curriculum Answered – Twitter Q&A