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- Council Members
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- Dr Louise Allum
- Dr Sam Bescoby
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- Dr Tom Lonsdale
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- Dr Lara Wilson
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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
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- FAQs – Common medicines pitfalls
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- 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 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
21 May 2025
The agenda for the Veterinary Nurses Council meeting of 21 May 2025 is set out below.
Unclassified papers for this meeting can be downloaded as one PDF bundle from the ‘Related documents’ box, at the end of this page.
View paper classification definitions.
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Paper title |
Category |
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| 1 |
Apologies for absence |
No paper |
| 2 |
Declarations of interest |
No paper |
| 3 |
Obituaries |
No paper |
| 4 | Minutes of meeting held on 26 February 2025 | Unclassified / classified appendix |
| 5 | Matters arising | No paper |
| 6 | CEO update | No paper |
| Matters for decision by VN Council and reports from Committees |
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| 7 | VN Education Committee |
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| 7.01 VN Education Committee Minutes of meeting held on 12 February 2025 |
Unclassified / classified appendix | |
| 7.02 VN Education Committee Minutes of meeting held on 23 April 2025 |
Unclassified / classified appendix | |
| 8 | Review of the Post-Registration Framework for Veterinary Nursing |
Unclassified / classified appendix |
| 9 |
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) 9.01 CPD Buddies |
Unclassified |
| Matters for note
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| 10 |
Report on registration of VNs educated outside the UK | Unclassified |
| 11 |
Report on temporary student enrolments | Unclassified |
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Reports from RCVS Committees |
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| 12.01 RVN Preliminary Investigation Committee Annual Report |
Unclassified |
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| 12.02 Standards Committee |
No paper |
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| 12.03 Advancement of the Professions Committee |
No paper |
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| 12.04 RVN Disciplinary Committee |
No paper |
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| 13 |
Communications report |
No paper |
| 14 |
VN Council membership |
No paper |
| 15 |
Any other business (unclassified) |
No paper |
| 16 | Date of next meeting | 17 September 2025 |
| Confidential and Private items (closed session) | ||
| 17 |
Election of Chair and Vice-Chair for 2025/2026 | No paper |
| 18 |
Policy and Public Affairs update |
No paper |
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) |
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| 19.01 Minutes of the VetGDP and Compliance Subcommittee |
Confidential |
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| 19.02 Minutes of the VetGDP and CPD Engagement Group |
Confidential |
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| 19.03 Continuing Professional Development compliance |
Confidential |
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VN Education Committee (VNEC) confidential items | |
| 20.01 Confidential items from meeting of 12 February 2025 | Confidential | |
| 20.02 Confidential items from meeting of 23 April 2025 | Confidential | |
| 21 |
Risk Register |
Confidential |
| 22 |
Items for RCVS Committees |
No paper |
| 23 | Any other business (confidential items) | No paper |