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- Council Members
- Role of Council Members
- Council meetings
- Council elections
- Previous election results
- Dr Louise Allum
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- Dr Tshidi Gardiner
- Dr Reginald Godwin
- Paddy Gordon
- Dr Danielle Greenberg
- Dr Gerard Henry
- Dr Richard Hillman
- Dr Benjamin Kennedy
- Dr Tom Lonsdale
- Dr Darren Partridge
- Martin Peaty
- Alison Price
- Dr Peter Robinson
- Dr Jennifer Simmons
- Dr Sadie Spencer
- Dr Mary Thomas
- William Wilkinson
- Dr Lara Wilson
- Past-Presidents
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- Advancement of the Professions Committee
- Standards Committee
- Audit and Risk Committee
- Education Committee
- Disciplinary Committee
- Charter Case Committee
- Preliminary Investigation Committee and Disciplinary Committee Liaison Committee
- Registration Committee
- Preliminary Investigation Committee
- Paper classification: some definitions
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- About extra-mural studies (EMS)
- EMS requirements
- Information for vet students
- Information for EMS providers
- Information for vet schools
- Temporary EMS requirements
- Practice by students - regulations
- Health and safety on EMS placements
- EMS contacts and further guidance
- Extra-mural studies fit for the future
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- Code of Professional Conduct for Veterinary Surgeons
- Code of Professional Conduct for Veterinary Nurses
- Contact the Advice Team
- XL Bully dog ban
- 'Under care' - guidance
- Advice on Schedule 3
- Controlled Drugs Guidance – A to Z
- Dealing with Difficult Situations webinar recordings
- FAQs – Common medicines pitfalls
- FAQs – Routine veterinary practice and clinical veterinary research
- FAQs – Advertising of practice names
- GDPR – RCVS information and Q&As
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- Accrediting veterinary degrees
- Accrediting veterinary nursing qualifications
- Reasonable adjustments for student vets
- Reasonable adjustments for student veterinary nurses
- Health and disability in veterinary nurse education and training
- Reasonable adjustments for students and the UK disability discrimination legislation
- Educational assessment of veterinary nurses
- Roles of key stakeholders in the application of reasonable adjustments
- Examples of reasonable adjustments for vet nurse students
- External review of the RCVS by ENQA
- Requirements for remote and online student assessments
Document library
Riding establishment guidelines (Scotland and Wales)
11 July 2025 - 976KB PDF
RCVS and BVA - The Riding Establishments Acts 1964 and 1970.
Guidelines for local authorities and their riding establishment inspectors in Scotland and Wales - revised July 2025
Guidelines for local authorities and their riding establishment inspectors in Scotland and Wales - revised July 2025
Riding establishment inspector application form
11 July 2025 - 49KB DOCX
Application form for applying to become a riding establishment inspector.
Finance and Resources Committee Terms of Reference
9 July 2025 - 120KB PDF
Terms of reference for the Finance and Resources Committee.
Pettitt, Jayne, July 2025, Decision of the Charter Case Committee
9 July 2025 - 627KB PDF
Pettitt, Jayne, July 2025, Decision of the Charter Case Committee
TP10 Northern England
8 July 2025 - 223KB PDF
Small Animal VN Training Practices in Region 10: Northern England. Yorkshire, Cumbria, Durham, Northumberland.
TP11 Southern Scotland
8 July 2025 - 180KB PDF
Small Animal Training VN Practices in Region 11: Southern Scotland
TP12 Northern Scotland
8 July 2025 - 161KB PDF
Small Animal VN Training Practices in Region 12: Northern Scotland. Northern Scotland, Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland.
TP13 Northern Ireland
8 July 2025 - 159KB PDF
Small Animal VN Training Practices in Region 13: Northern Ireland
TP14 Channel Islands
8 July 2025 - 140KB PDF
Small Animal VN Training Practices in Region 14: Channel Islands
TP1 South West England
8 July 2025 - 194KB PDF
Small Animal VN Training Practices in Region 1: South West England. Devon, Cornwall, Bristol, Somerset