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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
- Health and disability in veterinary medicine study and practice
- The role of the veterinary schools and the RCVS
- Reasonable adjustments and the Equality Act 2010
- Reasonable adjustments and Day One Competences
- Examples of reasonable adjustments for vet students
- Annex
- Reasonable adjustments for student vets - summary
- 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
- Embracing reasonable adjustments for student vet nurses - summary
- 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.
Recruitment, retention and return in the veterinary profession
29 November 2021 - 1288KB PDF
Preliminary report for the RCVS Workforce Summit 2021 - UPDATED MAY 2022
RCVS Day One Competences, Skills and Professional Behaviours for Veterinary Nurses - For consultation November 2021
10 November 2021 - 474KB PDF
Reference document alongside November 2021 Consultation on proposed new day one competences, day one skills (small animal and equine) and professionals behaviours required of newly-qualified veterinary nurses joining the RCVS Register
RCVS recommendations for future veterinary legislation
13 October 2021 - 471KB PDF
This report presents recommendations from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons on the future of veterinary legislation.
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
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.