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What’s behind the increase in demand in Emergency …
WebSince the first lockdown, most primary care services have become virtual, meaning that people are now accessing their GP through online bookings, video, and phone consultations. 56% of GP appointments in May 2021 were carried out face-to-face, compared to 80% in January 2020. There was a corresponding rise in phone …
Actived: Just Now
Emergency Medicine in a changing world From the president
WebAnd while Covid continues to reveal the problems of chronic underfunding in the NHS we must keep pushing for a better future in Emergency Care. Dr Katherine Henderson, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine & EM Consultant at St Thomas’ Hospital. This is an extract from the Emergency Medicine Journal – Supplement …
RCEM, Emergency Medicine research, and you From the president
WebRCEM, Emergency Medicine research, and you. In this blog, Chair of the RCEM Research Committee, Professor Jason Smith, talks about the committee’s work, the importance of research and the grants the College offers to fund it. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has declared that research is one of its top priorities, and the …
EMJ interview with new RCEM President, Adrian Boyle
WebPosted on 13th October 2022 by RCEM. Adrian Boyle, EM Consultant in Addenbrooke’s Hospital Cambridge, succeeded Katherine Henderson as President of RCEM at the AGM held on 4 October 2022 during the Scientific Conference in Belfast. The EMJ Supplement caught up with him last month to ask about his hopes and aspirations for the next three …
Emergency Medicine Day 2021 From the president
WebPosted on 27th May 2021 by RCEM. Emergency Medicine Day is a global celebration of Emergency Medicine organised by EUSEM. This year is the fourth since its inception in 2018. It is an opportunity to bring together all those who work in Emergency Medicine and bring in policy and decision makers as well as the public to recognise Emergency
World Mental Health Day and Emergency Medicine
WebPosted on 10th October 2021 by RCEM. October 10th is World Mental Health Day. Have you ever wondered if we sometimes make things worse for patient with mental health problems coming to the ED? Stigma in the general hospital setting is reported by patients to result in devaluation, social control, avoidance, rejection and failure to act.
Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery 10 Point Action Plan
WebPOINT 1: Supporting 999 and 111 services. In order to tackle operational pressures, the 10-Point Plan promised greater support for 999 and 111 services. This would ensure that, amongst other things, there would be sufficient call-handling capacity at NHS 111, and that cross-system work would facilitate speedier ambulance handovers at …
Giving the NHS the tools it needs to act on the climate emergency
WebThis week RCEM has signed a letter co-ordinated by the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change to the Secretary of State for Health and Care urging him to support the above amendments to ensure that all levels of the NHS will have the power to tackle the climate emergency. This in turn will improve the health of our patients and in reducing …
Health inequalities: what can we do in Emergency Medicine
WebThis is a joint report between the WHO, the Welsh government, and Public Health Wales with the stated commitment to make Wales a ‘champion’ country tackling health inequalities. The report highlights the disproportionate impact that Covid-19 has had in different ways on, children, young people, women, key workers, and ethnic minorities.
Beds not tents. Emergency ambulance patients made to wait in …
WebWriting in the Health Service Journal, RCEM President, Dr Katherine Henderson explains why the use of tents in front of EDs to facilitate ambulance handovers are dangerous for patients.. Urgent and Emergency care (U&EC) is in crisis. While the focus has been on the serious elective backlog, a dangerous situation has been developing in …
Katherine Henderson From the president
WebMay 2021 – Many of you will have heard me say we are the safety net of the patient but cannot be the safety net of the system. There has been general agreement with this sentiment but what does it mean in the current environment peri-pandemic?
Beds in the NHS From the president
WebThe admissions per acute hospital bed has increased from 37 in 2017 to 40 in 2020. Using this approach and aiming to get back to 2018/19 performance, the UK would require 4,500 extra beds this coming winter, this is about one extra ward per hospital. To improve this to 2017/18 levels would require 13,000 extra beds.
Guest blog – mental health in EDs From the president
WebEDs often struggle to provide good care and are hampered by stretched crisis mental health services. The good news is that finally Mental Health is on the government agenda and some funding is earmarked for improvement of services. The RCEM Mental Health committee has published the revised Mental Health toolkit today …
Death of former RCEM President Cliff Mann From the president
WebDr Clifford Mann OBE. It is with deep sorrow that the Royal College of Emergency Medicine announces the death of its former President, Dr Clifford Mann OBE. Dr Mann died peacefully at home yesterday, with his wife Rhona, and two daughters by his side. He had been nursed 24/7 in the last few days by nurses from his own department.
Guest blog – Keeping healthy and maintaining your wellbeing
WebReflections, having retired 2011 – retirement (at 64) is glorious=freedom. But having had poor health myself, I have seen the other side. I remain eternally grateful to Emergency Medicine for my Consultant Career – all absorbing, never boring – made possible by my wife Liz.
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