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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' - new 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
- GDPR – RCVS information and Q&As
Document library
Gracey, James - Decision and Reasons on Abuse of Process and Admissibility Argument
16 December 2022 - 217KB PDF
Gracey, James - Decision and Reasons on Abuse of Process and Admissibility Argument
Gracey, James - Decision of the Disciplinary Committee on Sanction
16 December 2022 - 174KB PDF
Decision of the Disciplinary Committee on Sanction
Gracey, James - Decision on Admissibility and Findings of Fact
16 December 2022 - 332KB PDF
Decision and Reasons on Admissibility and Findings of Fact
Gracey, James - Decision on Disgraceful Conduct
16 December 2022 - 185KB PDF
Decision and Reasons on Disgraceful Conduct in a Professional Respect
Consent Form: Use of data, samples in retrospective studies
15 December 2022 - 177KB PDF
For any veterinary practice that carries out clinical research, the consent for retrospective use of data etc. should be contained within the usual consent form for treatment.
Example of an acceptable Consent Form (a hypothetical prospective study that aims to look at the histology of mast cell tumours removed from dogs)
15 December 2022 - 188KB PDF
This study aims to compare the histology (appearance under a microscope) of mast cell tumours (a type of skin tumour) that are routinely removed from dogs at this practice.
RCVS Ethics Review Panel (ERP) Guidance on handling personal data in Clinical Veterinary Research
15 December 2022 - 193KB 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
15 December 2022 - 149KB PDF
This guidance is designed to ensure that researchers obtain consent that is informed, voluntary and valid from potential research participants.
RCVS Ethics Review Panel (ERP) Guidance on Multicentre Studies in Clinical Veterinary Research
15 December 2022 - 172KB PDF
Clinical veterinary research may involve other centres in the UK or from outside the UK. The reasons may be to increase the number of subjects in a study as well as to advance the science with diagnostic methodology not available in the UK.