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- Council Members
- Role of Council Members
- Council meetings
- Council elections
- Previous election results
- Dr Louise Allum
- Dr Sam Bescoby
- Dr Andrew Clemence
- 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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- 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
- 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
Dr Sean Wensley
BVSc MSc
FRCVS
- Location: Belfast
- Year of Fellowship: 2018
- Route to Fellowship: Meritorious Contributions to the Profession
Field of work
Charities and trusts
Areas of special interest
- Animal welfare science
- Animal ethics
- Sustainable development
Areas of support
- One Health Agenda
- Promoting knowledge and best practice
- Public engagement
Professional positions
- Senior Veterinary Surgeon for Animal Welfare and Professional Engagement, PDSA
- Honorary Lecturer in Animal Welfare, University of Nottingham
- Honorary lecturer in Animal Welfare, Queen's University Belfast
Awards
- World Veterinary Association (WVA) Global Animal Welfare Award for Europe
- BSAVA JA Wight Memorial Award
- PDSA Edward Bridges Webb Memorial Award
- Professor Barrie Edwards Memorial Lecture
- Liverpool University Alumni Award
Biography
Sean Wensley is Senior Veterinary Surgeon for Animal Welfare and Professional Engagement at the UK veterinary charity, PDSA (the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals).
He qualified from Liverpool University (UK) and holds a Master's Degree from Edinburgh University (UK) in Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare.
Sean has contributed to animal welfare and conservation projects on five continents. He is an Honorary Lecturer in Animal Welfare at the University of Nottingham (UK) and at Queen’s University Belfast (UK). He was a founder Director of Vet Sustain.
Sean chaired the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe (FVE) Animal Welfare Working Group and was President of the British Veterinary Association (BVA) from 2015 - 2016.
His book 'Through A Vet's Eyes' was one of the Financial Times' Best Summer Books.
He qualified from Liverpool University (UK) and holds a Master's Degree from Edinburgh University (UK) in Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare.
Sean has contributed to animal welfare and conservation projects on five continents. He is an Honorary Lecturer in Animal Welfare at the University of Nottingham (UK) and at Queen’s University Belfast (UK). He was a founder Director of Vet Sustain.
Sean chaired the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe (FVE) Animal Welfare Working Group and was President of the British Veterinary Association (BVA) from 2015 - 2016.
His book 'Through A Vet's Eyes' was one of the Financial Times' Best Summer Books.