Marking 50 years of organised emergency medicine

While hospitals have many problems, the care given by emergency medicine specialists has brought great benefits to society, writes Fergal Hickey

THIS day 50 years ago, the inaugural meeting of the Casualty Surgeons Association took place at BMA House in London.

This meeting, chaired by Maurice Ellis (regarded as the father of emergency medicine in these islands) was attended by 10 senior doctors convinced of the need to improve the services provided in casualty departments in the UK and Ireland.