Today our guest blog comes from Laura Howard and Susie Hewitt who look at how you can keep healthy and ensure your long term wellbeing. Celebrate RCEM 50 by looking after yourself and your team! Take this opportunity to make a commitment to your wellbeing; try out and embed evidence-based strategies, promote and maintain wellbeing […]

Today’s guest blog is a little different – a presentation from Dr Richard Fawcett on violence prevention and female genital mutilation. The full presentation is available here.

Today is World Mental Health Day so RCEM has chosen Mental Health as the theme of day two of our jubilee celebration week. Those of us working in Emergency Medicine are all too familiar with the effects that poor mental health have on our patients. EDs often struggle to provide good care and are hampered […]

Enjoy the first day of the RCEM 50 Celebrations Week At 0909 on 9th October join your EM Colleagues around the globe in teaching BLS to as many people as possible until 11am! Please do send us your photos, your stories and your videos or tweet, Instagram and Snapchat your BLS success. Join RCEM 50 […]

Predicting the future has always been a tricky business as events of the last 12 months or so have proven. Writing this blog requires a small modicum of peering into the future (by about 4-6 weeks or so) but I try hard to stick to the facts I am fairly certain about. Peering into the […]

Celebrating excellence in 2017! August is of course a month of holidays, heat (even in Yorkshire!) and the heady atmosphere of welcoming the most junior doctors into the joys of working with us in the Emergency Department. Some will be inspired from the beginning, some bedazzled by the seeming chaos (but actually sheer complexity) of […]

Celebrating excellence is the key theme of the next few months! Mainly because there is so much to tell and enthuse you about that I thought it would be good to focus purely on celebration – the why, how, what and where! If you want to catch up on some of the more serious battles […]

None of us can fail to have been affected by the events of the past month in Manchester and London. The terrorist events and the awful tragedy at Grenfell Tower have brought out the very worst and yet also the very, very best of humanity. They have sickened us to the core and yet brought […]

Much to tell from the corridors of London and other places I have managed to visit in the past month!  A real highlight was the trip to Belfast to join Northern Irish colleagues at their Annual Meeting. My thanks to Sean McGovern, Vice President of RCEM NI, Zoe Moulton from the College and of course […]

Spring is here! Always a good time to reflect a little on the winter behind us and planning for better things ahead. Perhaps a little bit of time to reflect too on the success of the ‘Winter Plan’ for urgent & emergency care and what could have gone better… or perhaps just a matter of […]