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Call for Nominations February 2022
It is time for Elections! The following positions are being advertised: SAM Physician Associate Job Description SAM IT Lead Please see the attached letter outlining the details. The deadline for applications is 14 February.
Read MoreNICE: End of life care for adults – Quality standard [QS13]
This quality standard covers care for adults (aged 18 and over) who are approaching the end of their life. This includes people who are likely to die within 12 months, people with advanced, progressive, incurable conditions and people with life-threatening acute conditions. It also covers support for their families and carers. It includes care provided…
Read MoreCouncil Members 2021
NAME POSITION Start Date End Date SAM Directors Sue Crossland Past Immediate President Sep-21 Sep-23 Tim Cooksley President Sep-21 Sep-23 Nick Murch President Elect Sep-21 Sep-23 Vicky Price Secretary May-22 May-25 Micheal Wheble Treasurer Oct-19 Oct-22 SAM Council Nick Smallwood England Regional Representative Sep-20 Sep-23 Mcheal Trimble Northern Ireland Regional…
Read MoreSAM past president warns current pressures and lack of respite ‘extremely worrying ahead of next onslaught’
Following today’s article in The Independent on concerns raised by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine about current pressures and patient safety, Dr Nick Scriven, immediate past president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said: “It is extremely worrying we are facing such pressures and problems at a time when, traditionally, urgent medical admissions might dip…
Read MoreSAM submission to Health and Social Care Committee’s pandemic inquiry
The Society for Acute Medicine has made a submission to the Health and Social Care Committee’s ‘Delivering Core NHS and Care Services during the Pandemic and Beyond’ inquiry ahead of its latest evidence session today (Tuesday, 16 June). In the letter, available to download here (Health and Social Care Committee submission), Dr Susan Crossland, president…
Read MoreTop 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…
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