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@SomersetFT EM consultant, Associate Medical Director Medicine / @RCollEM Vice President Treasurer / @ExmoorSRT Team doctor / @globalexpedmed Non-Exec Director
Taunton
Joined September 2013
"So-called ‘corridor care’ can only be stopped in the corridors of power" That's the message we hope MPs will take from the festive greetings cards RCEM has sent every single sitting member in the country. Read more here: https://t.co/aCuHPbRAj6
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17/12/2025 - While people across the country are looking forward to the festive season, Emergency Departments are bracing for a gruelling few months.
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High-sensitivity troponin has transformed MI detection, but front-door loading and unselective testing risk overdiagnosis & missed pathology. Our @EJ_EmergencyMed viewpoint article out today argues for reclaiming clinical reasoning in ED chest pain care
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The APPG on Emergency Care’s report on corridor care, complied by The Royal College of Emergency Medicine, contains a raft of recommendations to address the crisis in Emergency Departments. The Health and Social Care Secretary has agreed to meet to discuss the report. Have you
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Patients are consulting AI more and more before attending ED. What does the research say, and how should clinicians respond? Some great advice on what to do when this happens. @stemlyns
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Patients are consulting AI more and more before attending ED. What does the research say, and how should clinicians respond?
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Exciting opportunities await at this year’s #RCEMAC26! Our programme features 4 dedicated tracks spanning CPD and Emergency Medicine research - worth 17 CPD points. And that’s not all… on the Monday before the conference, we’re offering three hands-on pre-conference workshops
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Around 1 in 5 patients in UK A&Es are being subjected to so-called 'corridor care', according to a new study by @ternfellow. Here's our President Dr Ian Higginson telling @LBC this morning why this practice has become so widespread in our hospitals - and how it can be fixed.
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Emergency Medicine resident doctors show their value, and how committed they are to patient safety, with this excellent research study showing the extent of corridor care in UK EDs during Mar 2025. @ternfellow @EMTAcommittee @RCollEM
The UK @ternfellow EDcorridor study is out! Key points 1. 1in5 are treated in ED escalation areas (eg corridors) 2. 10-25% of EDs have no available resus cubicle 3. The problem/solution is flow. More patients waiting for beds in ED than in corridors. https://t.co/r5wna1PDMP
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@ternfellow Incredible collaborative piece of work. Glad to hear @wesstreeting commitment to ending corridor care. This works shows the focus needs to be on flow of patients waiting for inpatient beds out of the ED. @sib313 @DrLKVaughan @kurtstat @TheSGEM @TheResusRoom @RCollEM
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The UK @ternfellow EDcorridor study is out! Key points 1. 1in5 are treated in ED escalation areas (eg corridors) 2. 10-25% of EDs have no available resus cubicle 3. The problem/solution is flow. More patients waiting for beds in ED than in corridors. https://t.co/r5wna1PDMP
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Introduction Emergency department (ED) crowding is an international concern. It results in care being delivered in non-standard treatment spaces including corridors, termed escalation areas in the...
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We welcome the commitment from the Secretary of Health and Social Care to fully eradicate corridor care by 2029. We now need to see words matched with action. https://t.co/vgVrtY1O8a
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Dr Vicky Price: “The number of people now waiting 12 hours or more in emergency departments is completely unacceptable. It is causing serious and avoidable harm yet, is only the tip of the iceberg." https://t.co/SKnJh1KoKH
https://t.co/QcG0Luw2xf
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Over 452,000 people waited 12 hours or more for a bed from January to October after medics decided they were so sick they needed to be admitted to a ward.
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“It's an abject political failure.” There has been “years” of failure to control emergency departments within the NHS, which has ultimately created “appalling corridor care”, says President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine @RCEMpresident. @KateEMcCann | #TimesRadio
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I'm only a humble ED doc but I can't help thinking that the problem in our EDs isn't caused by patients, it's caused by political failure. Last time I looked it wasn't patients with hiccups in my corridors, it was sick elderly patients who we couldn't get into a hospital bed
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Read RCEM's response to the General Medical Council's state of medical education and practice in the UK: workforce report 2025, here: https://t.co/vFEj4rAsD3
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27/11/25 - Vice President of RCEM, Maya Naravi, responds to the General Medical Council's state of medical education and practice in the UK: workforce report 2025.
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Number of patients in England waiting more than 12 hours in ED last year > 1.7 million. Number of associated deaths estimated > 16000. Number of sentences in budget mentioning emergency care = 0. Just leaving it there.
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27/11/25 - The government has taken some positive steps to bolster the NHS today – but the Autumn Budget doesn’t offer anything to address extremely long waiting times and so called ‘corridor care’...
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RCEM has backed a new statement from the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges calling for urgent action to protect and grow clinical research across the NHS. The statement urges governments to invest in research infrastructure, support research-active staff, and expand
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We’re thrilled to announce that 587 abstracts have been accepted for this year’s #RCEMAC26 — a record-breaking achievement! Congratulations to all authors, and thank you for submitting your incredible work. The conference space is set to be buzzing with posters and oral
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Pragmatic prescribing to reduce harm for older people with moderate to severe frailty | British Geriatrics Society …. and here it is!!! @GeriSoc 👏👏👏👏
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This document aims to support prescribing decisions for older people with moderate to severe frailty. This information can be incorporated into shared decision-making conversations. It provides more...
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In a completely unheralded but praiseworthy move, NHSE has released site-level data for A&E performance: https://t.co/71Sc6Sbe1W...
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The latest data for Emergency Department performance in England reveals 164,880 patients waited 12 hours or more last month. That’s the second highest number on record for the month of October. It means one in nine patients endured this wait. For the first time, the NHSE data
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13/11/2025 - RCEM says NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care must focus on reducing the longest and most dangerous waits as Emergency Departments head into the depths of winter.
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