ED love discharging patients, & they are pretty good at it. If they are referring, they have seriously considered/attempted discharge already; you don’t need to remind them. Maybe you’ll end up discharging them yourself later, & that’s OK. It means the patient needed to see you!

The UKCPA Emergency Care Committee are incredibly excited to announce completed consultation with Royal College of Emergency Medicine recommending pharmacy services in all EDs to improve medicines safety and optimisation. A massive moment for the Emergency Medicine Pharmacy community. shorturl.at/cozT3 UKCPA

1/ Major prescribing news today! Back in 2019, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs recommended to the Home Office that the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 should be amended to allow paramedics to independently prescribe and administer five controlled drugs...

*Amazing news!* The Royal College of Emergency Medicine and UKCPA have released a position statement recommending dedicated ED pharmacists & pharmacy technicians as part of the MDT, with specified staffing numbers. Our UKCPA Emergency Care Committee Committee wrote the paper with Royal College of Emergency Medicine. buff.ly/48qskCt

With just over a week to go before #NEMC2024, we are pleased to release the line up for the day! (Please note there may be minor unforeseen changes due to the JD strikes) Limited tickets are still available, don't miss out!

Thanks for highlighting Jeremy, we agree that low NHS productivity is a real problem A quick thread to explain the causes and why the strategies that led to productivity improvements during the 2010s likely contributed to some of the current problems 🧵👇

SAVE THE DATE - RCEM PEM National Conference – Tuesday 25th June 2024, City Hall in Sunderland. More information to follow #RCEM #EM #PEM

EpiPens are toxic in space and NASA didn't know! In fact, a group of elementary school students figured it out. Here's the story 🧵

National Paediatric Emergency Medicine Conference, 25th June in Sunderland. Abstracts now open! rcem.ac.uk/events/pem-con… #PEM #EM #Paeds #EmergencyMedicine

Not working to one’s full scope of practice found to be associated with burnout in hospital pharmacists 👇 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

‘The role of disengagement in the psychology of competence drift’ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#Jan2024 #OriginalResearch A clinical decision rule to rule out bloodstream infection in the emergency department: retrospective multicentric observational cohort study emj.bmj.com/content/41/1/20

A wonderful accolade from another ED pharmacy legend @alexmpharma

You’ve heard the saying “ uncommon presentations of common diseases are more common than common presentations of uncommon diseases.” Here is a picture that explains the adage followed by a more in-depth explanation #clinicalreasoning #medicaldecisionmaking

Check out "Northern Emergency Medicine Conference 2025" eventbrite.com/e/northern-eme… @Eventbrite

One week left to take advantage of early bird discounts for the Northern Emergency Medicine Conference!

We have made it clear that the NHS temporary escalation spaces (TES) guide is "normalisation of what is an unacceptable and dangerous situation". RCEM Position Statement: tinyurl.com/rcemTES RCEM News: tinyurl.com/rcemNews1612 TES guide: england.nhs.uk/long-read/prin…

This is HUGE Published today by Royal College of Emergency Medicine with The Association of Ambulance Chief Executives and UKCPA support this advisory statement we constructed is the 1st step for suitable people in Emergency Departments to self administer their own Time Critical Medication rcem.ac.uk/wp-content/upl… #Parkinsons #insulin

🚨 New: Best Practice Guidelines with the National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) - Management of Patients with Suspected but Unidentified Poisoning in the Emergency Department. ⬇️ Download it 🔄 share it ▶️ practice it. 🔗 Link: rcem.ac.uk/clinical-guide…

It’s #EctopicPregnancyAwarenessDay In collaboration with The Ectopic Pregnancy Trust The Ectopic Pregnancy Trust, we have produced an updated ‘Safety Flash’ about the condition as women who experience an ectopic pregnancy often arrive through the doors of an Emergency Department to seek urgent