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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.

A latest update From the RCVS Standards & Advice Team on the destruction of controlled drugs.

A feature on the latest updates to the Supporting Guidance to the RCVS Code of Professional Conduct.

An update on the changes to the Code of Professional Conduct and its supporting guidance including decisions made by the RCVS Standards Committee.

This month’s Standards & Advice update covers changes to the rules around the prescribing cascade for Great Britain and Northern Ireland following the end of the UK-EU transition period and the signing of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement as well as the arrangements within the Northern Ireland Protocol agreed between the UK and the EU in 2019.

Following on from the RCVS’ series discussing key recommendations from its Legislation Working Party (LWP), RCVS registrar and director of legal services Eleanor Ferguson considers short-term proposals for reforming the RCVS disciplinary process.

While much of our Standards & Advice Team’s work since the last update in June this year has been dominated by the increasing complexity of the coronavirus-related restrictions across the four nations of the UK, the team and our Standards Committee has still been busy looking at how we can improve, refine and update the Supporting Guidance to the Code, and advice to the profession, both on an ongoing basis, and in response to particular circumstances.

In this article exploring some of the key recommendations from the RCVS Legislation Working Party (LWP), RCVS registrar and director of legal services Eleanor Ferguson discusses disciplinary reform.