NEWS
Time To Stop Talking & Start
Acting – New Alliance To Cut
The Queues At A&E
The Royal Society for the Prevention of
Accidents and the College of Emergency
Medicine have formed an alliance to reduce
injuries and relieve the pressure gripping
Accident and Emergency departments
R
oSPA, the UK’s family safety charity and the College,
which works to ensure high quality emergency care, have
committed jointly to highlight the problem of people
who have suffered preventable injuries attending A&E. Their
partnership will be known as the AlliancE.
There are 21million A&E attendances across England each
year, with accidents being a principal cause.
Among their work together, the two organisations will take
forward a project on data collection, seeking to bring about the
introduction of standardised A&E attendance data to highlight
the burden of accidents on emergency care. This project will
also involve the reintroduction of detailed a