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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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- Standards Committee
- Advancement of the Professions 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
Preliminary Investigation Committee
The Preliminary Investigation Committee (PIC) is a statutory committee under the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966.
Seven veterinary surgeons and six non-veterinary members are appointed to the PIC to assist the assessment and investigation of concerns.
Meetings of the Committee take place every two weeks (occasionally once a month) throughout the year, to decide if cases should be referred to a Disciplinary Committee hearing. The PIC Chairman provides a report of the Committee's activities to RCVS Council at three of the Council's meetings each year.
Members
- Georgie Barnard - Lay member
- Mrs Monica Beckles - Lay member
- Ms Rosalyn Hayles - Lay member
- Dr Victoria Emma King MRCVS
- Dr Laura Perez Klein MRCVS- Vice-Chair
- Dr Emily Knapp - Lay member
- Dr Katharine Nelson FRCVS
- Dr Caroline Queen MRCVS
- Dr Robert Scott McRae MRCVS
- Mrs Victoria Smith - Lay member
- Dr Bradley Viner FRCVS - Chair
- Ms Miranda Winram - Lay member
- Mrs Jennifer Wright MRCVS
Committee Clerk
Sandra Neary (T 020 7202 0730, E [email protected])
PIC reports to Council
- PIC Report to Council March 2025
- PIC Report to Council January 2025
- PIC Report to Council November 2024
- PIC Report to Council June 2024
- PIC Report to Council March 2024
- PIC Report to Council January 2024
- PIC Report to Council November 2023
- PIC Report to Council June 2023
- PIC Report to Council March 2023
- PIC Report to Council January 2023
- PIC Report to Council November 2022
- PIC Report to Council June 2022
- PIC Report to Council March 2022
- PIC Report to Council January 2022
- PIC Report to Council Nov 2021
- PIC Report to Council June 2021
- PIC Report to Council March 2021
- PIC Chairman's Report January 2021
If you require any earlier reports dating back to November 1999, please contact the Professional Conduct Department.
NB With effect from 3 July 2013, and with the introduction of the Legislative Reform Order (LRO), there are no longer Lay Observers as lay members are now full members of the PIC.
View PIC Lay Observers' Reports to Council with the PIC response.