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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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- Advancement of the Professions Committee
- Standards 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.
2024 RCVS Workforce Modelling Report
13 December 2024 - 651KB PDF
A report prepared by the Institute for Employment Studies on behalf of the RCVS modelling the future supply of veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses in the UK.
The 2024 Survey of the Veterinary Nursing Profession infographics
27 November 2024 - 781KB PDF
Infographics relating to the results of the 2024 Survey of the Veterinary Nursing Profession
The 2024 Survey of the Veterinary Nursing Profession report
27 November 2024 - 1117KB PDF
The 2024 Survey of the Veterinary Nursing Profession: a report for the RCVS by the Institute for Employment Studies
The 2024 Survey of the Veterinary Profession infographics
27 November 2024 - 590KB PDF
Infographics relating to the report of the 2024 Survey of the Veterinary Profession
The 2024 Survey of the Veterinary Profession report
27 November 2024 - 1154KB PDF
The 2024 Survey of the Veterinary Profession: a report for the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons from the Institute for Employment Studies
VN Standards Framework for Veterinary Nurse Education and Training
13 September 2024 - 2139KB PDF
RCVS Standards Framework for Veterinary Nurse Education and Training (Published September 2024)
RCVS AI Roundtable Report
16 August 2024 - 8228KB PDF
A report of the AI Roundtable held in May 2024.
Disability and Chronic Illness Survey summary report
30 July 2024 - 716KB PDF
Summary report of the joint RCVS and BVCIS Chronic Illness and Disability Survey results published in July 2024. Research conducted by the Institute of Employment Studies.
Disability and Chronic Illness Survey full report
29 July 2024 - 1123KB PDF
Full report of the joint RCVS and BVCIS Chronic Illness and Disability Survey results published in July 2024. Research conducted by the Institute of Employment Studies.