Historic moments in time tumble all too regularly it seems into our lives in different ways. Yet for us in Emergency Medicine in the UK and Ireland this month can be viewed truly as one we should spend a few moments in order to savour, reflect and also to look forward. Fifty years ago this […]
Predicting the future
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 […]
Get involved in our Golden Jubilee celebrations
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!
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 […]
Paying tribute to those involved in recent events
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 […]
Catching our breath and gradually progressing plans
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 […]
Reflecting on winter and planning ahead
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 […]
The first six months – springing forward
Rattling cages, battling (media) dragons and the ‘rock and roll’ of EM! These seem to have been some of the key themes of my first six months of presidency. Time has indeed flown by but amongst the wider crisis facing the NHS, there has been a clear RCEM message heard loud and clear that if […]
President’s Blog March 2017
Measurement! As the first signs of spring begin to show it seems a key topic to think about, reflect upon and share some of my thoughts with you on. I am also influenced by the events of the past week or so (as I write this in the second week of January) which have seen […]
President’s Blog February 2017
I sit writing these words in the ‘cold glow’ of early December a few weeks after the Autumn Statement by the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, trying to find some crumbs of comfort. It is always good news that I might possibly get to work a little quicker in the future, (he committed to investing in transport […]