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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.

RCVS News Extra (June 2016)
28 June 2016 - 1761KB PDF
RCVS News Extra June 2016 features a range of case studies supplied by our Standards and Advice Team on topics such as tail docking, first aid and emergency pain relief, client confidentiality and much more.

RCVS News (June 2016)
28 June 2016 - 2889KB PDF
RCVS News is our official newsletter which we publish three times a year in March, June and November. This issue includes: consultation on future of CPD, new ADR trial in the autumn, election results, ethics review panel, changes to Professional Conduct Department, new wellbeing award, new Find a Vet search tool, information on RCVS Day 2016 and much more.

Medical Minds Matter Conference Report
25 April 2016 - 4853KB PDF
A report of the Medical Minds Matter mental health conference on 28 October 2015.

Fitness to Practise: A Guide for UK Providers of Veterinary Nursing Education and Student Veterinary Nurses
30 March 2016 - 1059KB PDF
A two-part guide on fitness to practise issues for UK providers of veterinary nursing education and student veterinary nurses.

RCVS News (March 2016)
23 March 2016 - 1895KB PDF
RCVS News is our official newsletter which we publish three times a year in March, June and November. This issue includes: governance reform, Ethics Review Panel, CPD Champions, Queen's Medal recipient, new Junior Vice-President, VN Futures, microchipping advice, Find a Vet update, Education roundup, Mind Matters initiative, Vet Futures Action Group, upcoming events, Disciplinary Committee hearings and the launch of Veterinary Evidence.

VN Education (December 2015)
22 December 2015 - 2238KB PDF
VN Education is published twice a year and deals with veterinary nurse training and education issues. This issue includes articles about the closure of RCVS Awards, our new Skills List, the Golden Jubilee Award, feedback about the Nursing Progress Log, our new enrolment process, microchipping advice, English language testing, the Mind Matters initiative and ACOVENE audit.

RCVS News (November 2015)
26 November 2015 - 2690KB PDF
RCVS News is our official newsletter, which we publish three times a year in March, June and November. This issue includes: English language testing, ADR trial update, VN title campaign, Mind Matters initiative, Vet Futures report launch and much more...

RCVS News (June 2015)
6 July 2015 - 7997KB PDF
RCVS News is our official newsletter, which we publish three times a year in March, June and November. This issue includes: protection of VN title, Council election results, Specialist changes, Vet Futures, RCVS Day, Mind Matters and much more...

RCVS Facts (2015)
1 July 2015 - 2282KB PDF
RCVS Facts is published annually and contains a detailed selection of facts and figures about veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses in the UK and overseas. It is available to download as a PDF or to order as a hard copy.

RCVS Annual Report (2014)
18 June 2015 - 1896KB PDF
Annual report and audited financial statements of the RCVS for the year ended 31 December 2014.