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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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- 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
5 June 2025
The agenda for the RCVS Council meeting of Thursday, 5 June 2025 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 |
Vetlife update |
Orla report |
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5 |
Minutes of previous meetings held on 4 March and 13 March 2025 |
Refer to Council Minutes |
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
6 |
Matters arising |
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6a |
Obituaries |
Oral report |
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6b |
Council correspondence | Oral report |
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6c |
CEO update |
Oral report | |
7 |
Matters for decision by Council and for report |
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7a |
RCVS governance reform | Unclassified |
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7b |
Review of Charter Case Committee / Charter Case Protocol / ‘mini’ PIC meetings | Unclassified |
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7c |
Update to RCVS Honours and Awards |
Unclassified | |
7d |
RCVS Delegation Scheme |
Unclassified | |
7e |
Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966 offences update |
Unclassified | |
8 |
Reports of standing committees - to note |
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8a |
Advancement of the Professions Committee |
Oral report |
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8b |
Audit and Risk Committee |
Oral report |
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8c | Education Committee | Oral report |
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8d |
Finance and Resources Committee |
Oral report |
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8e |
Registration Committee |
Oral report |
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8f |
Standards Committee |
Oral report |
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8g |
Veterinary Nurses Council |
Oral report |
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8h |
PIC/DC Liaison Committee |
Oral report |
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9 |
Reports of statutory committees - to note |
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9a |
Preliminary Investigation Committee |
Oral report |
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9b |
RVN Preliminary Investigation Committee |
Oral report |
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9c |
Disciplinary Committee and RVN Disciplinary Committee |
Oral report |
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10 |
Notices of Motion |
Oral report |
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11 |
Questions |
Oral report |
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12 |
Election of Chair, Advancement of the Professions Committee (re-run) |
Oral report |
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13 |
Any other College business (unclassified items) |
Oral report |
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14 |
Risk register, equality and diversity (unclassified) |
Oral report |
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15 |
Date of next meeting - Thursday, 2 October 2025 |
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Confidential session |
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16 | Matters for decision by Council and for report |
Confidential |
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16a | Groupage Export Facilitation Scheme |
Confidential |
1, 2 |
16b | Corporate Risk Register |
Confidential |
1, 3 |
16c | 2024 Draft Annual Report and Financial Statements | Confidential |
1, 2 |
16d | Registration and retention fees 2026-2028 |
Confidential |
1 |
16e | RCVS Audit tender process |
Confidential |
1, 2, 3 |
16f | Update on major projects |
Oral report, Confidential |
1, 2, 3, 4 |
16g | CMA update |
Oral report, Confidential |
1, 3, 4 |
16h | Vital signs | Confidential |
4 |
16i | Recruitment of external members - various | Private |
1, 5 |
16j | Legislative reform | Confidential |
1 |
16k | Brand and visual identity – update | Confidential |
1, 3 |
17 | Any other College business (confidential items) |
Confidential |
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17a | Comments of classified appendices |
Oral report, Confidential |
# TBC |
17b | Other business |
Oral report, Confidential |
# TBC |
18 | Confidential |
# TBC |