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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
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- 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
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- 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
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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
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- Accrediting veterinary degrees
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- 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
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VetGDP 1: the origins of the programme
August 2021
Over the next few months, the RCVS will be giving us more details of its new Veterinary Graduate Development Programme (VetGDP). In this first article, Chair of the Education Committee Sue Paterson explains the origins of the scheme and how the construction of the VetGDP was framed by an evidence base provided by students, new graduates and veterinary practices.

VetGDP 4: the wider impact of the programme
August 2021
At the start of this series of articles, we looked at the background to the RCVS Veterinary Graduate Development Programme (VetGDP) and how it grew out of Vet Futures-based research that suggested retention of younger vets in particular was an issue. In this final article, BVA president James Russell writes about his hopes for the VetGDP programme and how it fits in with other projects, including those from the BVA, that arose from Vet Futures.

VetGDP 3: advising for the future
August 2021
Veterinary Graduate Development Programme (VetGDP) advisers will be central to supporting new graduates as they set, and reach, their professional development goals and settle into life as a veterinary professional. In this article, the third in our series from the RCVS, we hear from three senior vets about their reasons for becoming VetGDP advisers and their experience of the online training they are undertaking.

VetGDP 2: building new vet confidence
August 2021
In this article, the second in our series from the RCVS, Linda Prescott-Clements explains how the Veterinary Graduate Development Programme (VetGDP) will offer new vets the support of VetGDP advisers.

Standards & Advice update: August 2021
August 2021
An update from our Standards & Advice team for August 2021 looking at issues around the promotion of animal/ pet insurance.

RCVS Day 2021 speeches: outgoing RCVS President Dr Mandisa Greene
July 2021
An address by Dr Mandisa Greene, the outgoing RCVS President for 2020-21, at the RCVS AGM on Friday 9 July 2021.

RCVS Day 2021 speeches: incoming RCVS President Kate Richards
July 2021
An address by Kate Richards, incoming RCVS President for 2021-22 at the RCVS Annual General Meeting on 9 July 2021.

RCVS Day 2021 speeches: VN Council Chair Matthew Rendle
July 2021
An address given by Matthew Rendle, Chair of RCVS Veterinary Nurses Council, at the RCVS AGM on Friday 9 July 2021.

RCVS Day 2021 speeches: RCVS CEO, Lizzie Lockett
July 2021
An address given by RCVS Chief Executive Officer Lizzie Lockett at the 2021 Annual General Meeting.

Standards & Advice update: July 2021
July 2021
A latest update From the RCVS Standards & Advice Team on the destruction of controlled drugs.
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