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UK charities launch campaign for Syrian earthquake victims

Two UK charities are partnering with a Cambridge Emergency Medicine doctor who escaped war-torn Syria as a young medical student and is returning to h...

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Assessment of Risk During the Maternity Pathway

An independent report by the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch

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Proposal for Health & Social Care Select Committee Prevention Inquiry

Proposal - The Health and Social Care Select Committee should examine the role emergency care can play in prevention in its upcoming prevention inqu...

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RCEM Wales’ Emergency Medicine workforce census reveals significant staffing shortages, as health service remains in crisis

A landmark survey of Emergency Medicine staff in Wales has found that there are far too few clinicians to cope with demand within the stricken health ...

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PiPP Project: Key Study Recommendations

Key Recommendations for Retention and Workforce Wellbeing in Emergency Care

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RCEM Position Statement – Artificial Intelligence

Recent years have seen a rapid development in clinically-orientated Artificial Intelligence (AI) including Machine Learning (ML) applications

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

The UK National Health Service (NHS) and specifically Emergency Medicine (EM) is facing a retention crisis...

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Rebuilding the NHS better medical pathways for Acute Care

Urgent update, immediate priorities, and recommendations

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Group A Strep and scarlet fever during a time of winter pressures – a joint statement from RCPCH, RCEM and RCGP

Three Medical Royal Colleges are issuing advice for worried parents and healthcare professionals working during a very tough winter.

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Advice for Clinicians Involved in ED IT Procurement

From the RCEM Informatics Committee

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National QIP User Guide 2022/23

A guide for users of the RCEM National online QI system.

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Children’s Mental Health Risk Pathway Assessment Document

A checklist provided by Wirral University teaching hospital.

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Suspected Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome

New guidance bridging the gap between evidence and the need to provide quality care and advice.

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EC-ACP Guide to Credentialing

2017 Curriculum - Updated October 2022

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RCEM Coronavirus Infection, Prevention and Control (IPC) Guidance (October 2022)

The recommendations in this document are a re-statement of good infection and control procedures that should be in place in emergency departments (EDs...

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Mild Head Injury Patient Advice Leaflet

Manchester Royal Infirmary, October 2022

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Concussion and Sport Patient Advice Leaflet

Manchester Royal Infirmary, October 2022

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Discharge to General Practice – Update

Latest edition update October 2022

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RCEM Quality Improvement Guide

Updated version - September 2022

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Acute Behavioural Disturbance in ED’s

Updated version - September 2022

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Guidance for emergency departments: initial assessment

The 2022 to 2023 NHS planning guidance...

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Reconfiguring Emergency Medicine Services

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How to Login to Kaizen

PDF download with full instructions

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Position statement on drink spiking

Joint statement with the College of Policing and National Police Chiefs' Council - Drink spiking is when someone puts drugs or alcohol into a person’s...

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‘We are seeing the sharp demise of the health service’, RCEM says

Responding to the latest Emergency Department performance figures published by NHS England for July 2022, Vice President of the Royal College of Emerg...

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Nitrous Oxide & Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine

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Heat Related Illness – NASMeD Guidance of July 2022

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

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the general health of the British public and the NHS will be long lasting. NHS waiting lists currently stand a...

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Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery 10 Point Action Plan – Briefing

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

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New report exposes real number of A&E waits, as over 1,000 patients faced a 12-hour wait in A&E every day in 2021

A new report by The Royal College of Emergency Medicine ‘Tip of the Iceberg: 12-Hour Stays in the Emergency Department’ reveals that on average 1,047 ...

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RCEM Consultant Workforce Recommendations

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New report shows 13,000 staffed beds required across the NHS to drive meaningful change and improvement

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 driv...

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RCEM Safeguarding Policy (December 2021)

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National Quality Improvement Project (QIP) User Guide 2022

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RCEM Committee Structure Chart

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Consultant Sign Off QIP Information Pack

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EMSAS Person Specification for Specialist Doctors

Updated March 2022

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MRCEM Exam Primary Information and Regulations

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MRCEM Exam Guidance for Candidates with Additional Requirements

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Ambulance Handover Delays: Options Appraisal to Support Good Decision Making

Updated 31 March 2022

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Infection Prevention and Control – National Report 2020-2021

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Misconduct Policy for MRCEM and FRCEM Examinations

Updated March 2022

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Marking Exams by the Angoff Method

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QIP: Infection Prevention and Control Information Pack

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Medical Emergencies in Pregnancy for the ED Team Programme

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RCEM Event Sponsorship Pack 2022

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Agents of Change – Advocating for Public Health in the ED Programme

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Forgotten Tribe – Adolescents in the ED Programme

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Delirium in the ED Programme

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Learning Disabilities in the ED Programme

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Acute Behavioural Disturbance

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Ketamine Procedural Sedation for Children in ED’s

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Environmental Sustainability in EM

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Equality & Diversity Guidance

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Guidance for Participants at Virtual Events

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Guidance for Speakers at RCEM Conferences

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Guidance for Speakers at Virtual Events

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Pain in Children National Report

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Spring CPD Conference Programme 2022

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Improving Hospital Flow for Urgent Care

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Quality Strategy Part A January 2022

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Acute Aortic Dissection Programme – 7 June 2022

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Examination Fees 2022

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Improving Medical Pathways for Acute Care

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Security & Restraint Survey Report

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Mental Health Toolkit – Updated November 2022

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Pain in Children QIP Information Pack

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Diagnosis of Thoracic Aortic Dissection

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Diagnostic Dilemmas Around the World Programme

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Paediatric Pearls & Pitfalls Programme

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Mental Health in the Emergency Department

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Best Practice: Acute Behavioural Disturbance in Emergency Departments

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Older Person Trauma Programme

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Research Engagement Day January 2022 Programme

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Trainees Research Engagement Day Programme

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Best Practice Guideline – College Publications Template (January 2022)

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2022 National Recruitment – EM ACCS

National recruitment in Emergency Medicine is delivered by Health Education England, supported by the EM Heads of Schools who sit on the RCEM Training...

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Meeting the mental health needs of children and young people in acute hospitals: these patients are all our patients

Joint statement by RCEM, RCPCH and RCPsych The Royal Colleges of Emergency Medicine, Paediatrics and Child Health, and Psychiatrists recognise the ...

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Trainee Emergency Research Network (TERN) Fellowship 2021

We’ve launched the second round of the RCEM TERN Fellowship scheme, which will fund 50% of the successful applicant’s time over a two-year period.

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Educational Meeting: Supplementary Review’s Preview

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Doctoral Research Fellowship 2022

We've launched the next round of our PhD Fellowship Scheme. Applications are invited from EM trainees from CT1 and above before 21 January 2022.

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Why all EM trainees should have their say in the annual EMTA survey

In this month's guest blog, EMTA Committee Chair talks about the importance of trainees giving feedback in the annual EMTA survey.

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Acute Care Assessment 2021

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Performing an Anaesthetic Pre-Operative Assessment’s Preview

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

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Holistic Assessment of Learning Outcomes – HALO

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IAC Initial Assessment of Competence Certificate’s Preview

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MCR / MTR ACCS’s Preview

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ACCS End of Placement Report’s Preview

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ACP Faculty Educational Governance Statement’s Preview

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ARCP Form’s Preview

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Educational Meeting 2015 Curriculum’s Preview

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Educational Meeting ST3 – ST7’s Preview

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Educational Supervisor Report ACCS’s Preview

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Educational Supervisor Report Covid-19: HST’s Preview

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Educational Supervisor Report Covid-19: Intermediate’s Preview

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Faculty Education Governance Statement – ACCS CT1-2 / ST1-2 Trainee

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Faculty Education Governance Statement – ST6 Trainee

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Faculty Education Governance Statement – Interim / Formative

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Faculty Education Governance Statement – Intermediate ST3 Trainee

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Faculty Education Governance Statement – ST4 & ST5

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Structured Training Report 2015 Curriculum

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

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Discharge to General Practice

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Guideline on Antidote Availability for EDs

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Toxicology: RCEM NPIS Antidote Guideline List

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Best Practice: Discharge to General Practice

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EMTA Online 2021

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RCEM Complaints Policy Procedures

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RCEM Acute Insight Series: Crowding and its Consequences

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FASSGEM Annual Conference 2021 Programme

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New report reveals shocking number of excess deaths caused by crowding…

A new report by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine ‘Crowding and its Consequences’ has found that at least 4,519 patients have died as a result o...

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Scottish Policy Forum Programme

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RCEM CARES: The Next Phase

Outlines the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s (RCEM) system wide plan to improve patient care.

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Really Useful Guide to Managing Your ED

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RCEM NPIS Antidote Guideline Update 2021

RCEM & NPIS guidelines on antidote availability for Emergency Departments - 2021 Update.

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Return to Emergency Medicine Virtual Study Day

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PhD Fellowship Scheme & Guidance

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Covid-19: Paediatric Emergency Department Care Record

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

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Toxicology: RCEM NPIS Antidote Guideline Letter

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Toxicology: RCEM NPIS Antidote Guideline Appendix 1

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Best Practice: Patient Care in the ED

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

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Best Practice: Diagnosis of Thoracic Aortic Dissection in the Emergency Department

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National QIP User Guide

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

Call for national action to prepare for winter.

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Coronavirus: latest information and advice

Latest Coronavirus news.

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RCEM Wales Manifesto

Emergency Departments (EDs) are the only part of NHS Wales that offer a truly round the clock service, seven days a week.

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

Improving medical pathways for acute care

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Remote or Rural ED Study Day

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Retain, Recruit, Recover

Policy planning for recovery

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

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RCEM Statement on Vaccine Hesitancy (March 2021)

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

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Your Questions about the Curriculum Answered – Twitter Q&A

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Joint Statement on Myanmar

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Joint Statement Calling for Urgent Release of Professor Maw Maw Oo

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

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Summer to Recover – A Guide for Clinical Leads

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Message of Solidarity from RCEM to health workers in India (May 2021)

Message of solidarity from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine to health care workers in India

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Clinically Ready to Proceed

RCEM Position Statement on Clinically Ready to Proceed Metric

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Vaccine Pathway Concerns – RCEM/SAM/RCP Guidance (May 2021)

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MP briefing – RCEM Explains: Hospital Beds (June 2021)

RCEM Explains: Hospital Beds

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Scotland’s Emergency Medicine Workforce Census (July 2021)

Scotland's Emergency Medicine Workforce Census

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

Letter to the Foreign Secretary calling for the release of Professor Maw Maw Oo

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Results of the June 2021 MRCEM OSCE

Results of the June2021 MRCEM OSCE

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

Statement on the May 2021 FRCEM OSCE

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

What's behind the increase in demand in Emergency Departments?

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

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

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Problems & Promises of PoCUS Programme

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Education Strategy

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Transition from Trainee to Consultant Study Day Programme

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Covid-19: Safety Flash – PPE Buddy System

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Abuse of health & care staff – Joint Statement

Health and care staff have been subject to a growing tide of abuse from sections of the public and patients over the last few months.

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UEC Recovery 10 Point Action Plan – Implementation guide

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Covid-19: Emergency Department Care Record

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

The Veteran's Mental Health and Wellbeing Service

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Becton Dickinson Blood Specimen Collection Portfolio Supply Disruption

Becton Dickinson Blood Specimen Collection

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Letter from the Secretary of State on support for veterans and the OpCourage initiative

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

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Scotlands Emergency Medicine Workforce Census

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Best Practice: Better Together: Collaborative Working Between Emergency and Critical Care

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Best Practice: Management of Pain in Adults

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RCEM Explains: Hospital Beds – Parliamentary Briefing

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Best Practice: Ingestion of Super Strong Magnets in Children

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Summer to Recover: A Guide for Clinical Leads

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Best Practice: Pharmacological Agents for Procedural Sedation and Analgesia in the ED

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Covid-19: Airway Management in the Pandemic

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Mental Health National Slides 2019/20

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Mental Health National Report 2019/20

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Manchester Triage System Update Letter

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RCEM Statement on Vaccine Hesitancy

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National Recruitment 2021 – EM ACCS

National Recruitment 2021 - EM ACCS

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Burnout to Brilliance Programme

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Toxicology Around The World Programme

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

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Letter to Foreign Secretary – UN Political Declaration – March 2021

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Letter to the Chancellor Regarding the Spring Budget 2021

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Joint letter to Foreign Secretary 2021: UN Political Declaration

Request for continued UK protection for medical workers, facilities, and patients in conflict zones

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RCEM CARES – Retention – Policymaker Brief for MPs (England) – (February 2021)

Policymaker brief for MPs (ENGLAND)

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RCEM Response to the Clinical Review of Standards consultation (February 2021)

The Urgent and Emergency Care system is under considerable strain.

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Position Statement: Public Health in Emergency Medicine

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Assessing for Cognitive Impairment in Older People National Results

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RCEM Statement on MRCEM OSCE examination in March 2021

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

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Response to the Clinical Review of Standards Consultation

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RCEM CARES: Retention Policymaker Brief for MPs

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

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Care of Children National Results 2019/20

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Care of Children National Report 2019/20

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AoMRC statement on vaccination and second doses (Jan 2021)

The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges firmly supports the decision of the four UK chief medical officers to prioritise the delivery of the first COVID...

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RCEM Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Statement on Terminology (January 2021)

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee

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RCEM PPE ethnic minorities and risk in EDs during the pandemic (January 2021)

Personal Protective Equipment, ethnic minorities, and occupational risk in Emergency Departments during COVID-19 pandemic

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PPE Ethnic Minorities and Risk in EDs During the Pandemic

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

National Quality Improvement Project

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UK CMOs, NHS, GMC & AoMRC joint letter – supporting doctors throughout the pandemic (12 January 2021)

Supporting doctors throughout the COVID-19 pandemic

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RCEM statement on national recruitment

National 2021 EM ACCS Recruitment

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Psychological Distress and Trauma in Doctors Providing Frontline Care During the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Psychological Distress and Trauma in Doctors Providing Frontline Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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RCEM Scotland – 2021 Holyrood Election Manifesto

2021 Holyrood Election Manaifesto

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EMTA meets RCEM – Series of videos looking at our work

EMTA meets RCEM - the work of the College, committees and working groups.

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

Spotlight on Crowding in Wales

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RCEM CARES: Spotlight On: Safety

Spotlight on Safety

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RCEM CARES: Safety: Policymaker brief

Spotlight on Safety: Policymaker brief

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Letter from HM Treasury to Dr Katherine Henderson

Letter from HM Treasury to Dr Katherine Henderson

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Security & Restraint Survey Report

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Letter to Trust CEOs – Crowding

Concerns about the return of crowding and corridor care in Emergency Departments

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RCEM CARES: Spotlight on: Crowding (Scotland)

Spotlight on: Crowding - Scotland

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Resource Toolkits: End of Life Care

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Best Practice: Management of Suspected Internal Drug Trafficker

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Best Practice: HIV Testing in the Emergency Department

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Letter to MPs on Tiers

Please vote to save our hospitals

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EM Advanced Clinical Practitioners providing safe sedation in the adult ED

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RCEM CARES – Crowding policymaker brief (November 2020)

Spotlight on Crowding - England

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Key Questions for Clinical Leads

Key Questions for Clinical Leads

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Letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak regarding the Comprehensive Spending Review (19 November 2020)

Concern about crowding in our Emergency Departments

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

Learning from the first phase of the Coronavirus Pandemic.

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Letter to the profession from CMOs, NHS and Colleges

Supporting doctors throughout the second COVID-19 wave

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RCEM & Healthwatch – FAQs on NHS 111 First

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RCEM Guidance: Key Questions for Clinical Leads

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EMJ Supplement blog from RCEM President and VP Policy: ‘Covid-19: resetting ED care’

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Covid-19: Explaining the Legal and Ethical Dimensions and Providing Professional & Public Guidance – briefings for each of the UK nations

COVID-19: Explaining the Legal and Ethical Dimensions

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

Governance responsibilities for patients who do not attend booked appointments

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

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

Equality is a core value of the College, and we take our commitment to addressing all forms of inequality very seriously.

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

COVID-19 be an opportunity for the future of Emergency Departments?

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

What to do if your ED is becoming crowded again after the initial COVID period

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RCEM Statement on the FRCEM OSCE on 2-10 November

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UPDATED: RCEM Wellness Compendium

Shielding advice for trainees

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NHS Ambulance Services pre-alert guideline for the deteriorating adult patient

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

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Best Practice: Traumatic Cardiac Arrest in Adults

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RCEM and homeless charities warn of health impact of removing eviction ban

With the eviction ban due to end on Monday, The Royal College of Emergency Medicine is concerned at the serious impact that this could have on Emergen...

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RCEM TSC Advice for Shielding Trainees

TSC Advice for Shielding Trainees

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

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

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RCEM Scotland Position Statement: The Four-Hour Emergency Access Standard (July 2020)

The Four-Hour Emergency Access Standard is an important safety indicator for the acute care system.

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Rebuilding the NHS – Improving medical pathways for acute care

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and the Society for A...

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Best Practice: Fascia Iliaca Block in the Emergency Department

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

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

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has co-signed an open letter to the leaders of all UK political parties to call for a transparent rapid review...

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

In advance of an oral evidence session with the House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee this morning (Tuesday), the Presidents of the...

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

The management of ADULT cardiac arrest patients taken to Emergency Departments (EDs) during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

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Mental Health Newsletter June 2020

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

RCEM and the Ambulance Services have worked together to agree a document about the processes for adults in cardiac arrest arriving by ambulance at Eme...

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Best Practice: Absconding Guidance

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

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Covid-19: Children Clinical Brief

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Best Practice: The Patient Who Absconds

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Update on adjustments to FRCEM QIP marking in light of Covid-19 (June 2020)

Adjustment to FRCEM QIP Marking

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

Podcast featuring an important update on the latest RCEM policy.

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Best Practice: Management of Investigation Results in the ED

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

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Resetting Emergency Care – Position Statement

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

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

COVID-19 has brought significant disruption to the way medical care is delivered across all areas of clinical practice.

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Colleges joint letter to Lord Deighton about PPE

Congratulations on your appointment as the PPE ‘tsar’

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Position Statement: ED Doctors Performing Mental Health Act Assessments

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Coronavirus (Covid-19) guidance for clinicians

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Buddy System (April 2020)

Pairing with another colleague (Your BUDDY) can improve the safety of you, your buddy and the patient.

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

SUPPORTING DOCTORS IN THE EVENT OF A COVID19 EPIDEMIC IN THE UK

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RCEM & ACEM joint statement on Covid-19

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Position Statement: ED Doctors performing Mental Health Act Assessments

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Covid-19: Salbutamol peak flow and nebulisation advice

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Best Practice: Emergency Department Out of Hours Discharge Medications

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Best Practice: Inclusion Health in the ED – Caring for Patients Who Are Homeless or Socially Excluded

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Covid-19: Safety Alert – People with Diabetes

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Covid-19: Herd Wellbeing and Resilience

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Covid-19: Individual Wellbeing and Resilience

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Position Statement: Cauda Equina Syndrome

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

A UK-wide consensus statement on working together to help patients with mental health needs in acute hospitals.

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AoMRC statement on professionalism and article in The Times

Doctors as leaders: five minutes with Carrie MacEwen – published in the BMJ 20 February 2020

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Crib Sheet for Care in Children QIP

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Best Practice: Ketamine Procedural Sedation for Children in the ED

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Care of Children in the ED Information Pack

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Position Statement: Paediatric Trauma – Stabilisation of the Cervical Spine

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CMO for England statement on the Wuhan novel coronavirus

Chief Medical Officer for England statement on the Wuhan novel coronavirus

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Safety Flash: Anorexia Nervosa

Safety Flash on Anorexia Nervosa

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

Undetected button and coin cell battery ingestion in children

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

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

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Joint Statement RCEM and SAM regarding Same Day Emergency Care

Joint statement RCEM and SAM regarding Same Day Emergency Care

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

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

Joint position statement from RCPCH, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) and Royal College of Nursing (RCN)

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Assessing for Cognitive Impairment in Older People Information Pack

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Mental Health Audit Information Pack 2019

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Joint Statement RCEM and SAM regarding Same Day Emergency Care

There has been much publicity recently around provision of Same Day Emergency Care services as outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan 2019. RCEM and SAM e...

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RCEM Guidance: Mental Health Toolkit 2019

Mental Health in Emergency Departments

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EM-POWER: Returning to EM Clinical Practice

Returning to EM Clinical Practice, Skills Maintenance, Future Professional and Personal Development

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

A practical guide to flexible working and good EM rota design

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Mental Health Newsletter October 2019

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RCEM launch new Education Strategy

Education Strategy

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

End of life care

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

Major Trauma in Older People

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Traumatic Cardiac Arrest in Adults (September 2019)

Traumatic Cardiac Arrest in Adults

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Mental Health Newsletter August 2019

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RCEM national quality improvement project finds Emergency Departments still struggling to achieve timely initial assessment of children with fever symptoms

RCEM national quality improvement project finds Emergency Departments still struggling to achieve timely initial assessment of children with fever sym...

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RCEM sells fossil fuel shares and urges London organisations to follow suit

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) today becomes the latest London institution to offload its shares held in fossil fuel companies, urging...

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EM-POWER: A Wellness Compendium for Emergency Medicine

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Best Practice: Drug Misuse and the Emergency Department

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

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) supports the continued use of the four-hour access standard as a high-level metric to monitor emergency...

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

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

Sixteen Medical Royal Colleges and Associations have written a joint letter to the Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, asking the government to signal its...

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Position Statement: Advanced Life Support

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Royal College of Emergency Medicine supports national campaign to raise awareness of fatigue amongst healthcare staff 

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine is supporting the national Fight Fatigue campaign to help raise awareness of fatigue amongst NHS healthcare st...

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Ambulatory Care: Emergency Toolkit

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Ambulatory Emergency Care Toolkit

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“We’ve been lucky so far this winter” – Royal Colleges call for action on social care in Wales

Two world-leading medical organisations have today called on the Welsh Government to speed up their plans to invest in social and community care servi...

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

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RCEM FICM joint statement on winter pressures (2018)

In their joint position statement the Faculty and College take the unprecedented step of warning that critical and emergency care services will be str...

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Understanding SPC Charts

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Winter Flow Project Report 2017-18

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National Survey on Mental Health Services for Children and Young People

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

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A Guide to Section 136 for Emergency Departments

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Best Practice: A brief guide to Section 136 for EDs

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Best Practice: Intravenous Regional Anaesthesia for Distal Forearm Fractures (Bier’s Block)

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Best Practice: Guideline for Information Sharing to Reduce Community Violence

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

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Best Practice: Frequent Attenders in the Emergency Department

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Ambulatory Care: Position Statement

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Best Practice: A Universal FGM Flowchart and Reporting Tool

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Best Practice: Management of Pain in Children

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Best Practice: Emergency Department Care

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Winter Flow Project Report 2016-17

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Ambulatory Care: Operational Guide

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Position Statement: Resuscitative Thoracotomy in Trauma Units

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

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Response to RCR Imaging in Paediatric Trauma Guidelines

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Best Practice: Mental Capacity Act in EM Practice

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Mental Capacity Act Guideline

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Best Practice: The Mental Capacity Act in Emergency Medicine Practice

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Initial Assessment of Emergency Department Managers

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Best Practice: Giving Information to Patients in the Emergency Department

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Position Statement: Clinical Responsibility for Patients within the ED

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Winter Flow Project Report 2015-16

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Best Practice: Emergency Department Patients in Police Custody

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Invasive Procedure Checklist for EDs

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Best Practice: Guidelines for the Management of Excited Delirium / Acute Behavioural Disturbance

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Emergency Airway Management

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Position Statement: Acute Ischaemic Stroke and Intravenous Thrombolysis

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Tackling Emergency Department Crowding

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

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Best Practice: Reducing Redundant Activity in the Acute Setting

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Alcohol: A Toolkit for Improving Care

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Position Statement: Alcohol Related Harm

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Ebola: RCEM Letter to Clinicians – Travel History

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Best Practice: Chaperones in Emergency Departments

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Best Practice: Management of Domestic Abuse

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Best Practice: Ebola Guidance

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Ebola: EPRR CRG Opinion on emergency care for Ebola

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Ebola: Rapid Risk Assessment

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Safety Toolkit

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Gemnet: Management of Suspected Scaphoid Fractures in the ED

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Gemnet: Thromboprophylaxis Example Protocol

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

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Paracetamol Overdose Guidance

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Best Practice: Safe Sedation of Adults in the Emergency Department

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Gemnet: Thromboprophylaxis in Ambulatory Trauma Patients Requiring Temporary Limb Immobilisation

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Best Practice: Providing a Witness Statement for the Police

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

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Position Statement: Triage

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Human Swine Influenza – H1N1

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Gemnet: Management of Tricyclic Anti-depressant Overdose

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Gemnet: Management of Lone Acute Severe Headache

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Gemnet: Management of First Seizure in the Emergency Department

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Gemnet: Management of Acute Allergic Reaction

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

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