Position statements

‘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…

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‘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…

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‘Data shows desperate need for government to turn attention to threat of winter’ says SAM president-elect (14 November)

Commenting on the latest NHS performance data released today (14 November), Dr Vicky Price, president-elect of the…

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‘Government league table reforms could have significant detrimental effect’ – SAM president (13 November)

Commenting on an announcement by the Department of Health and Social Care about the introduction of a…

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‘Need action not words on NHS’ – SAM president (26 October)

Commenting on polling for The Daily Telegraph that has found patients are avoiding NHS services (26 October),…

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‘Urgent social care investment needed in immediate period’ says SAM past president (25 October)

Commenting ahead of the upcoming Budget, Dr Tim Cooksley, immediate past president of the Society for Acute…

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‘Urgent and emergency care services critically overloaded’ says SAM president-elect (24 October)

The British Geriatrics Society has today (24 October) warned of its grave concerns about the impact of…

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‘Shocking data shows dangers that lie ahead’ – SAM president (23 October)

Commenting on new data uncovered by the Liberal Democrats which revealed more than one million patients faced…

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‘NHS continues in eternal winter with no light at end of the tunnel’ says SAM immediate past president (20 October)

Commenting on health secretary Wes Streeting’s suggestion on the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg that hospitals could…

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