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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
- GDPR – RCVS information and Q&As
Check our Registers
Get information about the veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses on our registers.
On this page:
About the RCVS registers
We keep the Register of veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses eligible to practise in the UK.
Registration is granted based on a vet or vet nurse’s:
- educational qualifications, and
- continued ethical and professional good standing.
Find out more about our Register of Veterinary Surgeons
Find out more about our Register of Veterinary Nurses
Check our registers on Find a Vet
You can check our registers on our Find a Vet website:
Registration categories
There are a number of different registration categories for veterinary surgeons. For more information on these, please see our registration categories page.
Requirements to practise
As a regulator, we have to publish certain information about requirements to practise in the UK. This is an obligation under the Professional Qualifications Act 2022.
For a detailed explanation of why we publish this information, please visit gov.uk.
Qualifications
In order to graduate as a veterinary surgeon or nurse in the UK you must hold one of the following qualification types:
- Veterinary surgeons - Veterinary degree
- Veterinary nurses - Higher Education (HE) qualification or Further Education (FE) qualification
Yearly registration stats
The following table has information on:
- the number of veterinary surgeons and nurses admitted to the Register
- the number refused, and
- the reason.