Regions
Yorkshire & Humber, August 2023
What has the regional board been up to in Yorkshire & Humber since the January blog?
What has the regional board been up to in Yorkshire & Humber since the January blog?
A few weeks ago, we flipped our emergency department. Appalled at the sight of strong, reliable nurses in tears at the effort of trying to triage ambulance patients on the back corridor…
It was in 1971 that the Joint Consultants’ Committee published the Bruce report which recommended the experimental appointment of 32 consultants in Accident & Emergency to work full time in major departments1, a step away from the model of leadership under surgical consultants…
Hello from the West Midlands.
The region has been without RCEM representation and a board for some time, from November 2022 we’ve begun to re-establish the regional board, with myself as chair, Mark Ragoo as vice chair and Ruth Beveridge as ACP representative.
This is the first newsletter from the Yorkshire & Humber board that is being shared out of region, so I thought I would say a bit about us here in ‘God’s own county’. We have a population size similar to that of Scotland, and cover coastal, rural and urban populations.