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15 September 2026
Society for Acute Medicine 2026 AGM Announcement
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Society for Acute Medicine will be held on Thursday 8 October 2026 at 17:45hrs at the Glasgow Hilton Hotel, 1 William Street, Glasgow, G3 8HT. A virtual…
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14 June 2024
<strong>‘Urgent regulation needed for online weight loss drugs’ – SAM president-elect (14 June 2024)</strong>
Commenting on concerns around patients requiring acute and emergency treatment in hospital after purchasing weight loss injections from online pharmacies, Dr Vicky Price,…
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<strong>‘Strain on urgent and emergency care increasingly causing harm’ – SAM president (13 June 2024)</strong>
Commenting on the latest NHS performance data released today (13 June) which showed, among other things, that one in 10 patients attending emergency…
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<strong>‘Health MOTs in A&Es will not stop patients languishing in corridors’ says SAM past president (12 June 2024)</strong>
Commenting on NHS England’s announcement that hospitals will be asked to deliver health MOTs to older patients presenting with frailty-related conditions in emergency…
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<strong>Patients in corridors ‘appalling and trajectory terrifying’ (09 June 2024)</strong>
Commenting on the Liberal Democrats’ plans to tackle ambulance delays ahead of the official launch of the party’s general election manifesto 2024, Dr…
Read statement9 May 2024
<strong>‘NHS has slipped inexorably into eternal winter’ – SAM past president (09 May 2024)</strong>
Commenting on the latest NHS performance data released today (09 May) which showed, among other things, that one patient in every 10 who…
Read statement11 April 2024
<strong>Failure to meet new A&E target “tragically inevitable and predictable” – SAM immediate past president</strong>
The latest NHS performance data released today (11 April) shows, among other things: *74.4% of patients were seen within four hours in all…
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