The recently updated RCVS Strategy Plan was approved by Council in November 2010.
The following article is reproduced from RCVS News (November 2010) and explains how the new plan has evolved from the previous version in 2007.
Strategic direction - new Strategy Plan approved
Council has approved a new Strategy Plan for the College, which outlines the organisation’s aims and objectives for the next five years.
The new plan builds on the previous one, which was last updated in 2007. The previous iteration was detailed: this time, a more strategic, less tactical plan has been developed, as Registrar Jane Hern outlines: “The new plan aims to act as a focus for managing change, whether proactive or re-active,” she says. “It is deliberately broad-based and can be implemented flexibly, as Council and committees see fit.”
The overall objective laid out by the plan is: “To confirm the RCVS as an effective regulator and to develop its role as an influential scientific body – trusted equally by the public and the profession to be impartial and authoritative – and to ensure that the veterinary profession makes a positive contribution to society.”
The plan then goes on to detail the framework by which this will be achieved, the relationships required to facilitate success, how the aim will be delivered and the desired outcomes.
A series of internal supporting documents will translate the main aims down to the work of committees and departments. Where appropriate, the plan will be reflected in objectives for individual members of staff as part of the annual appraisal process, and, of course, built into the budget.