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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
Publications
We keep in touch with veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses through a range of publications, including RCVS News and the annual report (RCVS Review and RCVS Facts).
From time to time we also publish surveys and reports.
All of these can be downloaded for free here – including archive copies from the past five years.
Coronavirus: economic impact on veterinary practice #6
24 March 2021 - 406KB PDF
Results from RCVS survey #6 conducted between 25 February and 4 March 2021
VetGDP Programme Guidance 2021
18 March 2021 - 2100KB PDF
Our RCVS Veterinary Graduate Development Programme (VetGDP) Guidance provides an overview of what UK practices need to do to prepare for this summer’s roll-out of the programme.
RCVS Diversity and Inclusion Group Strategy
17 February 2021 - 7524KB PDF
Our Diversity & Inclusion Group (DIG) Strategy sets out how we will work to help create veterinary professions where everyone can flourish and which have no place for discrimination.
Coronavirus: economic impact on veterinary practice #5
23 December 2020 - 464KB PDF
Results from RCVS survey #5 conducted between 25 November and 1 December 2020
RCVS Covid-19 Survey 2020
5 October 2020 - 1836KB PDF
Report of an online survey by the Institute for Employment Studies of UK-practising veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic, to see if there were any immediate safety, quality or efficiency issues to inform decisions about a temporary exemption to RCVS guidance; and secondly to capture data on the experience of VSs and VNs carrying out remote consulting, including remote prescribing, to inform RCVS’s wider review.
RCVS survey #4 on the economic impact of Covid-19 on veterinary clinical practices
29 September 2020 - 427KB PDF
Results from RCVS survey #4 (carried out between 1-7 September 2020) on the economic impact of Covid-19 on veterinary clinical practices.
RCVS News (July 2020)
21 August 2020 - 642KB PDF
RCVS News, our official newsletter, is emailed to all members on a monthly basis. This text-only version includes: virtual AGM, new Day One Competences, new Fellows admitted, Knowledge Awards expanded and more.
RCVS survey #3 on the economic impact of Covid-19 on veterinary clinical practices
3 July 2020 - 679KB PDF
Results from RCVS survey #3 (carried out between 12-16 June 2020) on the economic impact of Covid-19 on veterinary clinical practices
Veterinary Schools Council Graduate and Employers Survey 2019
24 June 2020 - 470KB PDF
The report of a joint survey conducted by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) and the Veterinary Schools Council (VSC) with employers and graduates on recent graduate competency.
RCVS News (June 2020)
12 June 2020 - 586KB PDF
RCVS News, our official newsletter, is emailed to all members on a monthly basis. This text-only version includes: legislative changes, consultation on changes to disciplinary system, Black Lives Matter statement, new Junior Vice-President and more.