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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
About Professor Nicola Spalding
Career overview
Professor Nicola Spalding's career began in the NHS, where she later specialised in orthopaedics and palliative care. In 1995, she joined the University of East Anglia (UEA) as a lecturer in Occupational Therapy, teaching on the BSc and MSc preregistration programmes and the Masters in Clinical Education.
Her education and research during this time enabled her to complete a masters and a Doctorate in Education. Her primary research focus was patient education, an area in which she has published extensively and presented at numerous conferences. She was appointed Professor of Occupational Therapy in 2013.
Professional contributions
Beyond UEA, Nicola has served as an external examiner at many universities, worked as a visitor for the Health and Care Professions Council, and an accreditor for the Royal College of Occupational Therapists. From 2016-2021, she was a non-executive director at the James Paget University Hospital.
Recent work
In 2023, Nicola left UEA and was honoured with the title Professor Emeritus. She now undertakes consultancy work, specialising in occupational therapy curriculum development and supervision.
In 2024, Nicola was awarded a fellowship from the Royal College of Occupational Therapists.