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RCEM Global team secures funding to develop Emergency Medicine worldwide
The team has also continued long-standing collaborations with key international partners.
The team has also continued long-standing collaborations with key international partners.
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has updated its guidance for Emergency Department crowding in response to the increasing threat to timely emergency care and the impact it is having on Emergency Medicine clinicians and their patients.
Emergency Department (ED) crowding represents the greatest threat to the timely delivery of emergency care in the UK and across the world.
The RCEM has said that the Welsh Government ‘have let patients down’ by failing to publish a winter plan, as latest data show one in seven patients faced a 12-hour delay in A&Es in Wales in December.
This statement is a follow up to the joint statement issued in 2019 by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) and the Society for Acute Medicine (SAM) regarding the delivery of same day emergency care (SDEC) in England following the launch of the 2019 Long Term Plan for the
Latest data show that hospital bed occupancy remains at unsafe levels (93.5%) as one in nine patients faced 12 hour waits in A&Es in December in England. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has described it is a ‘shameful, distressing and deeply saddening’ situation.
A new study from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) and University of Bath has found the safe delivery of emergency care is now under serious threat, due to a severe burnout and retention crisis in Emergency Medicine.
…to see the detrimental and damaging cultures in some Emergency Departments eradicated.
Latest data show that dangerous long waits are on the rise as more than one in three patients faced a four-hour wait in Scotland’s A&Es in November 2023.
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has called on the Welsh Government to take urgent action to combat winter pressures, as new data shows one out of every five people who visited an A&E last month was forced to wait more than eight hours.
With dangerous and unacceptable hospital occupancy levels of more than 95% there is the real risk that patients will find no room at the Inn this Christmas.
We are delighted to release the RCEM Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Calendar for 2024.
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