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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
RVN PIC Report to Council March 2025
5 January 2026 - 187KB PDF
RVN PIC Report to Council March 2025
RVN PIC Report to Council November 2025
5 January 2026 - 172KB PDF
RVN PIC Report to Council November 2025
George Aspey and Susan Howarth Veterinary Nurse Disciplinary Committee hearing charges
2 January 2026 - 195KB PDF
The charges for the December 2025 Disciplinary Committee hearing for George Aspey RVN and Susan Howarth RVN
George Aspey and Susan Howarth Veterinary Nurse Disciplinary Committee hearing - decision on facts
2 January 2026 - 218KB PDF
The decision on facts documentation for the December 2025 Veterinary Nurse Disciplinary Committee hearing for George Aspey RVN and Susan Howarth RVN
George Aspey and Susan Howarth Veterinary Nurse Disciplinary Committee hearing - decision on professional conduct
2 January 2026 - 160KB PDF
The decision on professional conduct documentation for the December 2025 Veterinary Nurse Disciplinary Committee hearing for George Aspey RVN and Susan Howarth RVN
George Aspey and Susan Howarth Veterinary Nurse Disciplinary Committee hearing - decision on sanction
2 January 2026 - 147KB PDF
The decision on sanction documentation for the December 2025 Veterinary Nurse Disciplinary Committee hearing for George Aspey RVN and Susan Howarth RVN.
Overseas Trained VN Application Form B Example
31 December 2025 - 1325KB PDF
Evaluation of International Qualifications for entry to the UK Register of Veterinary Nurses Application Form B example
Overseas Trained VNs Application Form A
31 December 2025 - 626KB DOCX
Application for a veterinary nurse trained outside the UK to have their qualification(s) and experience assessed to determine eligibility of an application for inclusion on the RCVS Register of Veterinary Nurses. Application Form A - Word version
Overseas trained VNs Application form A Guidance Notes
31 December 2025 - 538KB PDF
Guidance notes on completion of application for a veterinary nurse trained outside the UK to have their qualification(s) and experience assessed to determine eligibility of an application for inclusion on the RCVS Register of Veterinary Nurses.
Overseas Trained VNs Application Form B
31 December 2025 - 517KB DOCX
Application for a veterinary nurse trained outside the UK to have their qualification(s) and experience assessed to determine eligibility of an application for inclusion on the RCVS Register of Veterinary Nurses Form B - Word version