Patients are consulting AI more and more before attending ED. What does the research say, and how should clinicians respond? Some great advice on what to do when this happens.
Your Patient Already Asked ChatGPT Read More
The NHS drowns in innovation whilst repair work goes unsupported. Why Bronson’s Design as Repair framework matters for emergency medicine.
Design as repair: what Emergency Medicine can learn (and why it is so hard) Read More
From St Emlyn’s journal club: are we overtreating sepsis? US study finds 87% received unnecessary or overly broad antibiotics in ED.
JC: Are we overtreating suspected sepsis with broad-spectrum antibiotics? Read More
How we transformed emergency medicine by 2038: AI, virtual EDs, and culture change. A powerful retrospective for healthcare leaders.
Looking Back from 2038: How We Fixed Emergency Medicine Read More
New UK research reveals 3 types of moral injury in emergency medicine: loss of trust in others, self & authority. St Emlyn’s journal club review of key findings.
JC: When helping hurts – moral injury and the erosion of trust for UK emergency responders Read More
Analysis of NHS UEC plan 2025/26: key changes from previous iterations, strengths and weaknesses, plus core strategies for successful implementation
The Urgent & Emergency Care Plan 2025/26: Evolution, Promise & Challenges Read More
Emergency departments (EDs) often seem to shift from calm to crisis in an instant. Why? This article explores ED crowding through the lens of complexity science and self-organised criticality, explaining how minor changes—like a few extra patients—can trigger disproportionate chaos.
Self-Organised Criticality: Why your ED is like a Sand Pile Read More
The practice of coordinating, consulting and managing an entire acute clinical service in real-time is fairly unique to emergency medicine. Central to this is the EPiC (or emergency physician in charge) role #FOAMed @stemlyns with @codingbrown
An EPiC mental model. St Emlyn’s Read More
