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Top doctor urges PM to stop playing “fast and loose” with data
Following today Prime Minister’s Questions, Dr Nick Scriven, immediate past president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said: “Despite all the PM’s rhetoric about protecting the NHS, his government’s mishandling will harm the very people he is purporting to have protected by risking them coming under intense strain in the coming weeks and months with…
Read MoreSAM president says coronavirus plans “working well” but major outbreak would bring “immense stress”
In response to questions about the ability of the NHS to manage a widespread outbreak of coronavirus, Dr Susan Crossland, president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said: “Rightly so the government, Public Health England and the NHS are working hard to manage the coronavirus situation and that co-ordination has been working well for the…
Read MorePerformance data shows system “teetering on brink” – SAM past president
Following the release today of NHS performance data for January, Dr Nick Scriven, past president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said: “The fact the NHS is teetering on the brink is now such common knowledge that it is no longer a shock to see continuous failure to meet performance targets and even today, with…
Read MoreSAM calls for “urgent” government action on NHS following latest data release
Following the release today of NHS performance data for December, which showed 79.8% of patients spent less than four hours in A&E, Dr Susan Crossland, president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said: “We can honestly say that acute care is facing pressures the like of which we have never seen and the huge jump…
Read MoreMedics say NHS same day emergency care plan for winter ‘grossly derailed’
Senior medics have said an NHS plan designed to improve urgent care and ease pressure on hospitals this winter has been “grossly derailed”. In March, NHS England announced every major hospital would provide same day emergency care (SDEC) – also know as ambulatory emergency care – by the end of the year as part of…
Read MoreSAM statement regarding NHS performance data for January 2017
Commenting on NHS performance data for January, Dr Mark Holland, president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said: “Performance against the four-hour emergency access target has been in constant decline since November 2014 and, despite numerous warnings, guidance, criticism and advice, until now the government has buried its head as deep into the sand as…
Read MorePast, Present, Future: Tuesday Presentations
TUESDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER Click on the links below to view the presentations Sunrise Sessions S1: Practical Hints for Improvement of Quality Culture, Dr Melody Siska S3: Acute Medicine: An International Perspective of Acute Care Systems: Going Dutch, Dr Prabath Nanayakkara Going Down Under, Dr Alasdair MacDonald S4: Future Hospital Update, Dr Mark Temple & Dr…
Read MorePast, Present and Future – Statement 01/09/16
Statement dated 01/09/2016 We would like to confirm that the forthcoming Past, Present and Future of Medicine Conference on the 12-13 September 2016 is going ahead as planned. We are aware of the potential for further industrial action in relation to the junior doctors’ contract in England with the first action scheduled to take place…
Read MoreAIM Profile- Dr Nadia Stock
Name: Dr Nadia Stock Position: ST5 Speciality: Acute Medicine Deanery: North East Deanery Being the medical registrar puts a lot of people off – why not you? As surprising as it may sound there are some of us who do love being a medical registrar because of, rather than in spite of, the challenges…
Read More14/05/2014: European and Swiss Congress of Internal Medicine
14-16 May, Geneva All participants are invited to submit abstracts for the European and Swiss Congress of Internal Medicine 2014, a joint venture of the 13th Congress of the European Federation of Internal Medicine (EFIM) and the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of General Internal Medicine (SSIM). Abstracts may only be submitted via…
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