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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
- 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
Find a Vet Staff List
16 December 2025 - 102KB PDF
Form to update practice staff lists appearing on Find a Vet.
2024 EMS Policy and Guidance
15 December 2025 - 223KB PDF
The EMS Policy and Guidance 2024 (updated December 2025)
RCVS methodology for the accreditation of veterinary degree programmes
15 December 2025 - 606KB PDF
The RCVS methodology for the accreditation of veterinary programmes.
C-VPH.1 Animal Welfare in the Food Chain
9 December 2025 - 24KB DOCX
C-VPH.1 Animal Welfare in the Food Chain. CertAVP.
Qualifications Approved for Inclusion in the Registers
5 December 2025 - 250KB PDF
List of qualifications approved for inclusion in the Registers.
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