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

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

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

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

An address given by RCVS Chief Executive Officer Lizzie Lockett at the 2021 Annual General Meeting.

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

A feature on the latest updates to the Supporting Guidance to the RCVS Code of Professional Conduct.

An update on the changes to the Code of Professional Conduct and its supporting guidance including decisions made by the RCVS Standards Committee.

This month’s Standards & Advice update covers changes to the rules around the prescribing cascade for Great Britain and Northern Ireland following the end of the UK-EU transition period and the signing of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement as well as the arrangements within the Northern Ireland Protocol agreed between the UK and the EU in 2019.

Following on from the RCVS’ series discussing key recommendations from its Legislation Working Party (LWP), RCVS registrar and director of legal services Eleanor Ferguson considers short-term proposals for reforming the RCVS disciplinary process.