News

We would like to give you advanced warning that we will all be off site for a staff meeting on Friday 14 June, and the office will be closed, including the RCVS Charitable Trust Library.

Chief Nick Stace, has summarised discussions and decisions made at recent meetings, in his first post-Council video.

We have appointed Freda Andrews to the newly-created role of Director of Education.

A meeting of the Disciplinary Committee of the RCVS as constituted under the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966, will be held at the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Belgravia House, 62-64 Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AF, on:

The Disciplinary Committee of the RCVS on Friday [24 May] directed that a Wirral-based veterinary surgeon should be removed from the Register after finding that he had treated clients badly, kept inadequate clinical records, was dishonest in dealing with the RCVS, and that animals in his care were placed at risk.

The RCVS Charitable Trust has declared its support for the ‘All Trials’ campaign’s aims. These are for all clinical trials, past and present, to be publicly registered, and for the full methods and the results to be openly reported.

We have written to the MPs drawn in today’s private members’ Bill ballot to call upon them to introduce legislation to protect the title ‘veterinary nurse’ and introduce an effective regulatory system that would ensure that those veterinary nurses found guilty of serious professional misconduct were prevented from carrying out medical treatment to or surgery on animals.

A meeting of the RCVS Disciplinary Committee, as constituted under the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966, will be held at the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Belgravia House, 62-64 Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AF, on:

Congratulations go to veterinary nursing assistant Michelle Kirk, from Carrick Vets, Chesterfield, who has won a Kindle Fire in our ‘untangle it’ anagram competition at the British Small Animal Veterinary Association Congress (BSAVA – Birmingham, 4-7 April 2013).

The Disciplinary Committee of the RCVS last week [3 May] struck off the Register a veterinary surgeon for charges relating to tuberculin (TB) testing on cattle that he undertook and certified at four farms during June and July of 2010.