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This month’s Standards & Advice update is a case study looking at some of the issues around consent and conflict of interest in regard to the rehoming of animals treated by veterinary practices.

Over the next few months, the RCVS will be giving us more details of its new Veterinary Graduate Development Programme (VetGDP). In this first article, Chair of the Education Committee Sue Paterson explains the origins of the scheme and how the construction of the VetGDP was framed by an evidence base provided by students, new graduates and veterinary practices.

At the start of this series of articles, we looked at the background to the RCVS Veterinary Graduate Development Programme (VetGDP) and how it grew out of Vet Futures-based research that suggested retention of younger vets in particular was an issue. In this final article, BVA president James Russell writes about his hopes for the VetGDP programme and how it fits in with other projects, including those from the BVA, that arose from Vet Futures.

Veterinary Graduate Development Programme (VetGDP) advisers will be central to supporting new graduates as they set, and reach, their professional development goals and settle into life as a veterinary professional. In this article, the third in our series from the RCVS, we hear from three senior vets about their reasons for becoming VetGDP advisers and their experience of the online training they are undertaking.

In this article, the second in our series from the RCVS, Linda Prescott-Clements explains how the Veterinary Graduate Development Programme (VetGDP) will offer new vets the support of VetGDP advisers.

An update from our Standards & Advice team for August 2021 looking at issues around the promotion of animal/ pet insurance.

An address by Dr Mandisa Greene, the outgoing RCVS President for 2020-21, at the RCVS AGM on Friday 9 July 2021.

An address by Kate Richards, incoming RCVS President for 2021-22 at the RCVS Annual General Meeting on 9 July 2021.

An address given by Matthew Rendle, Chair of RCVS Veterinary Nurses Council, at the RCVS AGM on Friday 9 July 2021.

An address given by RCVS Chief Executive Officer Lizzie Lockett at the 2021 Annual General Meeting.