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- Standards Committee
- Advancement of the Professions 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
- Health and disability in veterinary medicine study and practice
- The role of the veterinary schools and the RCVS
- Reasonable adjustments and the Equality Act 2010
- Reasonable adjustments and Day One Competences
- Examples of reasonable adjustments for vet students
- Annex
- Reasonable adjustments for student vets - summary
- 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
- Embracing reasonable adjustments for student vet nurses - summary
- External review of the RCVS by ENQA
- Requirements for remote and online student assessments
Document library
RESC conflict of interest declaration form
4 December 2025 - 196KB PDF
Template form for riding establishment inspectors choosing to proceed where a conflict of interest exists - last updated December 2025
Riding establishment guidelines (England)
4 December 2025 - 572KB PDF
Guidelines for riding establishment inspectors and local authorities in England - last updated December 2025
Riding establishment guidelines (Scotland and Wales)
4 December 2025 - 966KB PDF
Guidelines for riding establishment inspectors and local authorities in Scotland and Wales - last updated December 2025
Standards Committee Meeting Minutes (22 October 2025)
4 December 2025 - 155KB PDF
Standards Committee Meeting Minutes (22 October 2025)
Standards Committee Meeting Papers (3 December 2025)
4 December 2025 - 631KB PDF
Standards Committee Meeting Papers (3 December 2025)
ERP Guidance on Ethical Considerations in the Funding of Clinical Veterinary Research
26 November 2025 - 324KB PDF
ERP Guidance on Ethical Considerations in the Funding of Clinical Veterinary Research
ERP Research Proposal Application Form
26 November 2025 - 72KB DOCX
Application form to submit a research proposal for ethical approval by the RCVS Ethics Review Panel
RCVS ERP guidance on writing lay summaries
26 November 2025 - 104KB PDF
This document provides guidance for writing lay summaries and includes an illustrative example of a well-constructed lay summary.
RCVS Ethics Review Panel (ERP) Guidance on handling personal data in Clinical Veterinary Research
26 November 2025 - 217KB PDF
This guidance note aims to provide some useful background and pointers that will help you to develop your application(s) in relation to personal data and research.
RCVS Ethics Review Panel (ERP) Guidance on Informed Consent for Clinical Veterinary Research
26 November 2025 - 135KB PDF
This guidance is designed to ensure that researchers obtain consent that is informed, voluntary and valid from potential research participants.