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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
- GDPR – RCVS information and Q&As
Check our Registers
We register veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses to practise in the UK, on the basis of their educational qualifications and continued ethical and professional good standing.
If you would like to check our registers of veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses, please use either of the following services on our Find a Vet website:
Please note: there are a number of different registration categories available for veterinary surgeons; for more information on these please view the 'registration categories' page.
Professional Qualifications Act 2022
As of October 2022, regulators in the UK, under the Professional Qualifications Act 2022, are required to publish certain information about requirements to practise the profession.
For a detailed explanation of why we publish this information please visit the Gov.uk website.
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
Below you can see information on the number of veterinary surgeons and nurses admitted to the Register, along with the number refused, and the reason.