Resuscitate, not palliate, emergency care.

Emergency care in the UK is in crisis, and stories of long waits, poor care and harm have become commonplace. This situation can no longer be ignored. This article looks at some of the ways in which emergency care can be resuscitated.

Training in emergency medicine.

One of the key challenges faced in emergency medicine is to provide effective training so that clinicians feel valued and supported in the roles they undertake. While there are numerous areas of exemplar practice nationally this article details two areas of particular focus for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine: supporting trainees' return to formal training programmes and developing specialty and associate specialist doctors in emergency medicine.