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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
Check our Registers
Get information about the veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses on our registers.
On this page:
About the RCVS registers
We keep the Register of veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses eligible to practise in the UK.
Registration is granted based on a vet or vet nurse’s:
- educational qualifications, and
- continued ethical and professional good standing.
Find out more about our Register of Veterinary Surgeons
Find out more about our Register of Veterinary Nurses
Check our registers on Find a Vet
You can check our registers on our Find a Vet website:
Registration categories
There are a number of different registration categories for veterinary surgeons. For more information on these, please see our registration categories page.
Requirements to practise
As a regulator, we have to publish certain information about requirements to practise in the UK. This is an obligation under the Professional Qualifications Act 2022.
For a detailed explanation of why we publish this information, please visit gov.uk.
Qualifications
In order to graduate as a veterinary surgeon or nurse in the UK you must hold one of the following qualification types:
- Veterinary surgeons - Veterinary degree
- Veterinary nurses - Higher Education (HE) qualification or Further Education (FE) qualification
Yearly registration stats
The following table has information on:
- the number of veterinary surgeons and nurses admitted to the Register
- the number refused, and
- the reason.