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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' - new 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
- GDPR – RCVS information and Q&As
Voting opens in 2018 RCVS Council election
16 March 2018
Voting has now opened in this year's RCVS Council election with veterinary surgeons who are eligible to vote being able to do so online or by paper ballot.
There are 10 candidates standing in this year’s elections, including four existing Council members eligible for re-election and six candidates not currently on Council. They are:
- Mr David Catlow MRCVS
- Mr John C Davies MRCVS
- Dr Mandisa Greene MRCVS
- Miss Karlien Heyrman MRCVS
- Professor John Innes FRCVS
- Dr Thomas Lonsdale MRCVS
- Dr Susan Paterson FRCVS
- Mr Matthew Plumtree MRCVS
- Mr Iain Richards MRCVS
- Colonel Neil Smith FRCVS
Ballot papers and candidates’ details have been posted to all veterinary surgeons eligible to vote and an email containing a link to a secure voting site unique to each member of the electorate has also been sent by Electoral Reform Services which runs the election on our behalf. All votes must be cast, either online or by post, by 5pm on Friday 27 April 2018.
This year we invited all election candidates to produce a video in which they answered up to two questions submitted directly to us from members of the electorate. All videos have been published on each individual candidate's webpage and our YouTube channel.
Key question themes this year included recruitment and retention, the College’s concerns investigation process and veterinary education. The list of accepted questions has also been published.
The biographies and statements for each candidate in the RCVS Council election are available to read online.
Eleanor Ferguson, our Registrar and Returning Officer for the election, said: “Last year we had a record number and proportion of the electorate vote in an RCVS Council election and we would once again stress the importance of voting to ensure that you have a say in the future direction of travel for the College and its policies.”
Those who are eligible to vote but have not received either an email or ballot paper should contact Luke Bishop, our Senior Communications Officer, on [email protected]