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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
- 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
22 January 2026
The agenda for the RCVS Council meeting of Thursday, 22 January 2026 is set out below.
Unclassified papers for this meeting can be downloaded as one PDF bundle from the ‘Related documents’ box.
View paper classification definitions.
| Agenda item |
Paper title |
Category |
Rationale |
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| 1 |
President's Introduction |
Oral report | |
| 2 |
Apologies for Absence |
Oral report |
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| 3 |
Declarations of Interests |
Oral report |
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| 4 |
Minutes of previous meetings held on 20 November 2025 and remote decisions made between 23 December 2025 - 5 January 2026 |
Refer to Council Minutes |
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
| 5 |
Matters arising |
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| 5a |
Obituaries |
Oral report |
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| 5b |
Council correspondence | Oral report |
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| 5c |
CEO update |
Oral report | |
| 6 |
Matters for decision by Council and for report |
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| 6a |
European veterinary school accreditation | Unclassified |
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| 7 |
Reports of standing committees |
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| 7a |
Advancement of the Professions Committee | Oral report |
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| 7b |
Audit and Risk Committee | Oral report |
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| 7c |
Education Committee | Oral report |
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| 7d |
Finance and Resources Committee | Oral report |
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| 7e |
Registration Committee | Oral report |
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| 7f |
Standards Committee | Oral report |
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| 7g |
Veterinary Nurses Council | Oral report |
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| 7h |
Professional Conduct Liaison Committee | Oral report |
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| 8 |
Public Advisory Group |
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| 9 |
Reports of statutory committees |
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| 9a |
Preliminary Investigation Committee | Unclassified |
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| 9b |
RVN Preliminary Investigation Committee | Unclassified |
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| 9c |
Disciplinary Committee and RVN Disciplinary Committee | Oral report |
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| 10 |
Notices of motion |
Oral report | |
| 11 |
Questions |
Oral report | |
| 12 |
Any other College business (unclassified) |
Oral report |
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| 13 |
Risk register, equality and diversity (unclassified) |
Oral report |
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| 14 |
Date of next meeting - Thursday, 12 March 2026 |
Oral report |
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Confidential session |
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| 15 | Matters for decision by Council and for report |
Confidential |
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| 15a | Major projects - update |
Oral report, Confidential |
1, 2, 3, 4 |
| 15b | Competition and Markets Authority - update |
Oral report, Confidential |
1, 3, 4 |
| 15c | Legislative reform and governance | Confidential |
1 |
| 16 | Any other College business (confidential items) |
Confidential |
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| 16a | Comments of classified appendices |
Oral report, Confidential |
# TBC |
| 16b | Other business |
Oral report, Confidential |
# TBC |
| 17 | Confidential |
# TBC |
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| 18 | Training session |
Confidential |
# TBC |