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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
Some current projects
The action plan includes our current operational activities and these are subject to regular update and review. The following examples, while not exhaustive, give a flavour of current projects:
Workstreams/Focus
- Recruitment to vet/veterinary nurse training and education
- Retention and support within the vet/VN schools at under- and post-graduate levels
- Recruitment within the profession
- Retention and support within the professions
- DIG member organisational (internal) policies and procedures
- Culture change
Promote
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Recruitment to vet/veterinary nurse training and education
- Develop case studies, ambassadors and careers materials and communicate to children from a young age
- Review work experience requirements
- Update RCVS documentation around access requirements
- RCVS consultation on new legislative requirements
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Retention and support within the vet/VN schools at under- and post-graduate levels
- Update RCVS veterinary school standards to reflect our diversity and inclusion aspirations
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Recruitment within the profession
- Encourage take up of workplace awards/ standards, for example, Stonewall, Disability Confident, Race at Work
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Retention and support within the professions
- Develop case studies and positive role models
- Strengthen standards regarding staff support within RCVS Practice Standards Scheme
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DIG member organisational (internal) policies and procedures
- RCVS and other organisations to ensure policies around membership/registration, standards, complaints, meetings & events, grants & awards, marketing & outreach, and employment promote and support diversity and inclusion (where applicable)
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Culture change
- Work to improve diversity of governance and leadership via visibility, demonstration of core values and review of recruitment/nomination processes
Understand
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Recruitment to vet/veterinary nurse training and education
- Commission new research to better understand the barriers
- Host joint RCVS/VSC roundtable to better understand issues
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Retention and support within the vet/VN schools at under- and post-graduate levels
- Implement outcomes of RCVS/VSC Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority student support roundtable and host similar for VN students
- Training for faculty on diversity and inclusion, and how to support individuals
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Recruitment within the profession
- Help employers understand the business, moral and societal case for diversity and inclusion
- Understand first-hand the barriers faced
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Retention and support within the professions
- Encourage members of the veterinary team in a wide variety of workplace types to attend diversity and inclusion training eg via RCVS Leadership MOOC
- Produce materials that support difficult conversations
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DIG member organisational (internal) policies and procedures
- Develop a toolkit to support in-house conversations around diversity
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Culture change
- Ensure diversity and inclusion is included on congress agendas, within CPD etc and that outputs are disseminated
Support
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Recruitment to vet/veterinary nurse training and education
- Work with organisations that support university applications from those from diverse backgrounds
- Consider mentor schemes
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Retention and support within the vet/VN schools at under- and post-graduate levels
- Clear reporting systems and support for those who suffer from discrimination on extra-mural studies
- Encourage setting up of student-led support networks
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Recruitment within the profession
- Work with employers to develop toolkit to support better recruitment advertising and practices and encourage people to call out poor examples
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Retention and support within the professions
- Inclusion of strong wording in the RCVS Code of Professional Conduct to enable more confident reporting of poor conduct and behaviour
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DIG member organisational (internal) policies and procedures
- Encourage all veterinary organisations to have regular discussion around diversity and inclusion and to have a visible statement
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Culture change
- Enable, via DIG, a safe space for organisations to discuss their progress and where they need help going forward; to support and communicate each other’s efforts