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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
Publications
We keep in touch with veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses through a range of publications, including RCVS News and the annual report (RCVS Review and RCVS Facts).
From time to time we also publish surveys and reports.
All of these can be downloaded for free here – including archive copies from the past five years.
Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Veterinary Nurses
10 January 2022 - 430KB PDF
Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Veterinary Nurses - A survey report for the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons: Summary of findings
Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Veterinary Surgeons
10 January 2022 - 416KB PDF
Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Veterinary Surgeons - A survey report for the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons: Summary of findings
An independent audit of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons’ Professional Conduct investigation process and recommendations to reduce its impact on mental health and wellbeing, together with RCVS responses
9 June 2021 - 1895KB PDF
An independent audit of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons’ Professional Conduct investigation process and recommendations to reduce its impact on mental health and wellbeing, together with RCVS responses.
Coronavirus: economic impact on veterinary practice #6
24 March 2021 - 406KB PDF
Results from RCVS survey #6 conducted between 25 February and 4 March 2021
Coronavirus: economic impact on veterinary practice #5
23 December 2020 - 464KB PDF
Results from RCVS survey #5 conducted between 25 November and 1 December 2020
RCVS Covid-19 Survey 2020
5 October 2020 - 1836KB PDF
Report of an online survey by the Institute for Employment Studies of UK-practising veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic, to see if there were any immediate safety, quality or efficiency issues to inform decisions about a temporary exemption to RCVS guidance; and secondly to capture data on the experience of VSs and VNs carrying out remote consulting, including remote prescribing, to inform RCVS’s wider review.
RCVS survey #4 on the economic impact of Covid-19 on veterinary clinical practices
29 September 2020 - 427KB PDF
Results from RCVS survey #4 (carried out between 1-7 September 2020) on the economic impact of Covid-19 on veterinary clinical practices.
RCVS survey #3 on the economic impact of Covid-19 on veterinary clinical practices
3 July 2020 - 679KB PDF
Results from RCVS survey #3 (carried out between 12-16 June 2020) on the economic impact of Covid-19 on veterinary clinical practices
Veterinary Schools Council Graduate and Employers Survey 2019
24 June 2020 - 470KB PDF
The report of a joint survey conducted by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) and the Veterinary Schools Council (VSC) with employers and graduates on recent graduate competency.
RCVS survey #2 on the economic impact of Covid-19 on veterinary clinical practices
13 May 2020 - 427KB PDF
Results from RCVS survey #2 (carried out between 1-5 May 2020) on the economic impact of Covid-19 on veterinary clinical practices