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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' - 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
- FAQs – Advertising of practice names
- GDPR – RCVS information and Q&As
Disciplinary Committee
A Disciplinary Committee hearing is a tribunal where charges are heard against a veterinary surgeon alleging that he or she is guilty of serious professional misconduct (the wording of the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966 is ‘disgraceful conduct in a professional respect’), or that he or she is unfit to practise because of a criminal conviction.
The Disciplinary Committee hears evidence on oath or by affirmation. There are 22 members on the Disciplinary Committee, but there will usually only be 5 members hearing a case.
Members
- Mr Colin Childs
- Dr Karen Coumbe MRCVS
- Dr Melanie Fleming MRCVS
- Dr Amy Hawthorn MRCVS
- Rt Hon David Heath CBE
- Mr James Hurden
- Mrs Andrea Jeffery RVN
- Ms Helena Jones
- Dr Jeremy Kirk MRCVS
- Ms Hilary Lloyd
- Ms Stephanie McIntosh
- Mr Paul Francis Morris - Chair
- Ms Kathryn Peaty - Vice-Chair
- Ms Susan Ridge CB
- Dr Charles Ross MRCVS
- Mrs Helen Russell RVN
- Ms Catharine Seddon
- Mr Christopher Shepherd MRCVS
- Dr Neil Slater MRCVS
- Dr James Tong MRCVS
- Mr Peter Smith
- Dr James Wallace MRCVS
Meeting dates
Announced in Latest News
Committee Clerk
Yemisi Yusuph (T 020 7202 0729, E [email protected])