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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
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- GDPR – RCVS information and Q&As
Areas of particular concern
Areas of particular concern might include:
Breaches of the RCVS Code of Professional Conduct (Code)
- dishonesty, for example, deliberately putting false entries in clinical records;
- misleading a client, colleague or the wider public;
- recklessness in his/her conduct;
- inappropriate or unwarranted physical force against an animal;
- aggression or violence towards a client;
- inappropriate storage, use or dispensing of veterinary medicinal products;
Not all breaches of the Code will give rise to a realistic prospect that the conduct is far short of that
which is expected.
Clinical Matters
- Treatment that falls far short of that expected might include:
- reckless administration of a medicine;
- failure to keep appropriate clinical records;
- negligence which may be gross;
- other very poor clinical care and skill short of the standard expected; and/or
- repeated errors.
Other Issues
- failure to adhere to previous advice from the RCVS;
- concerns relating to criminal cautions or convictions of a serious nature may, on the authorisation of the RVNPIC Chairman and/or Head of Professional Conduct be referred directly to the Stage two RVNPIC; and/or
- concerns relating to serious health issues may on the authorisation of the RVNPIC Chairman and/or Head of Professional Conduct be referred directly to the Stage two RVNPIC.