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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' - 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
- FAQs – Advertising of practice names
- GDPR – RCVS information and Q&As
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.
Draft RCVS Standards and Guidance for the Accreditation of Veterinary Degree Programmes
16 July 2021 - 288KB PDF
Consultation document
RCVS Annual Report and Financial Statements 2020
18 June 2021 - 9611KB PDF
RCVS Annual Report and Financial Statements 2020
Legislative Review Consultation Report 2021
11 June 2021 - 1721KB PDF
Report of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS)Legislative Reform Consultation.
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
VetGDP Programme Guidance 2021
18 March 2021 - 2100KB PDF
Our RCVS Veterinary Graduate Development Programme (VetGDP) Guidance provides an overview of what UK practices need to do to prepare for this summer’s roll-out of the programme.
RCVS Diversity and Inclusion Group Strategy
17 February 2021 - 7524KB PDF
Our Diversity & Inclusion Group (DIG) Strategy sets out how we will work to help create veterinary professions where everyone can flourish and which have no place for discrimination.
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.