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Physician Associate Position Statement
Updated December 2024 The Society for Acute Medicine (SAM) is a proudly multidisciplinary organisation with members from several different professional…
Read MoreSecretary of State comments about patient safety and winter plans “concerning” says SAM past president (09 December)
Commenting today (09 December) on health and social care secretary Wes Streeting’s urgent talks with NHS leaders in England about…
Read More‘Govt must recognise there will be no elective recovery without emergency care recovery’ – SAM past president (05 December)
Commenting today (05 December) on the Prime Minister’s speech outlining priorities for the NHS and NHS England’s warning about winter…
Read More‘Concern about continued emergency care crisis is well placed’ – SAM past president (02 December)
Commenting on Labour’s plan to commit to the restoration of the 92% referral to treatment (RTT) target by March 2029,…
Read More‘Assisted dying debate brings into focus another area where resourcing is inadequate’ – SAM past president (1 December)
Commenting today (1 December) on the implications assisted dying will have on the NHS and the announcement of the launch…
Read MoreReduced flu vaccine uptake among healthcare staff and older people “worrying” says SAM president (30 November)
Commenting in The Sunday Telegraph on the reduced uptake in flu vaccinations among healthcare staff and older people, Dr Nick…
Read More‘Urgent and emergency care survey lays bare scale of the challenge’ – SAM president (21 November)
Commenting on findings from a Care Quality Commission survey of more than 45,500 people who used NHS urgent and emergency care…
Read More‘Staff heading into the coming months with trepidation and concern’ – SAM president (18 November)
Commenting on a report released today (18 November) by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine which found nine out of…
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