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      <title><![CDATA['Five' is the lucky number for Kinross veterinary practice]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[﻿Liz Burton, Marketing Co-ordinator at Loch Leven Equine Practice, Kinross, has won a hamper we donated to the Veterinary Practice Managers Association (VPMA) prize draw recently, after answering correctly the question “How many principles of practice are set out in the new RCVS Code of Professional Conduct for Veterinary Surgeons?”]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Increase in VN student vocational enrolments highest on record]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[﻿Last year saw the highest ever increase in the number of people enrolling as veterinary nursing (VN) students on vocational courses, according to our latest figures]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Disciplinary Committee to meet in February]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Excellent results in VN practical exams]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[﻿We're delighted to report that veterinary nursing students have achieved excellent results in the latest round of practical examinations, the pass lists for which we published recently.]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Disciplinary Committee suspends Co. Tyrone vet]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[﻿The RCVS Disciplinary Committee on Tuesday [17 January 2012] suspended from the Register for ten months a Co. Tyrone veterinary surgeon, having found him guilty of serious professional misconduct relating to three convictions for contravening animal export regulations.]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[RCVS urges support for proposed changes to disciplinary procedures]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has today launched a public consultation on proposals that would enable the RCVS to reconstitute its disciplinary committees independently of the RCVS Council...]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[New RVN badge - £15 offer ends soon!]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[﻿If you're a Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN) and would like to purchase the new RVN badge for the discounted price of £15, you can still do so until 31 January 2012.]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Open day and prize draws to mark National Libraries Day]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[﻿The RCVS Charitable Trust Library will mark National Libraries Day (4 February) with an open day and prize draws for library users.]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[RCVS overspend: an apology]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[﻿In light of responses received to our recent decision to follow independent legal advice and not publish the full 'Overspend Report' produced by Professor Bill McKelvey and colleagues, we thought it might be helpful to make more widely available a copy of the presentation...]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Disciplinary Committee to meet in January]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[﻿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...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[RCVS Acting Registrar appointed]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[﻿Gordon Hockey has been appointed Acting Registrar at the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Privy Council dismisses Lincs vet's appeal against disciplinary sanction]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Privy Council yesterday [20 December 2011] dismissed the appeal of a Lincolnshire veterinary surgeon against the RCVS Disciplinary Committee’s decision to strike him off the Register in January 2011 for serious professional misconduct.]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA['My Account' offline over Christmas; VN fee deadline extended]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Please note that the RCVS Database system will be undergoing maintenance work during the Christmas/New Year period, so it will not be possible to log in to the 'My Account' section from Thursday, 22 December until early January.]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[RCVS 'overspend report': Freedom of Information enquiry decision]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[﻿The full ‘Overspend Report’, produced by Professor Bill McKelvey and colleagues, will not be released publicly, based on external Counsel’s advice sought by us.]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Trust grants £40,000 for feline and equine disease research]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[﻿The RCVS Charitable Trust has made two ‘Blue Sky’ grants of £20,000 each for research into feline rotavirus and equine gut bacteria.]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Anaesthesia course clarification  ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Widely circulated advertising for the City & Guilds ‘Level 2 Certificate in Assisting Veterinary Surgeons with Anaesthesia and Sedation and Monitoring Animal Patients’ states that this qualification has been approved by the RCVS.]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Seasonal opening times for College and Trust]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The RCVS and RCVS Charitable Trust will remain open on certain days over the festive season. Please see below for more details.]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[﻿﻿Response to Government’s bovine Tuberculosis control announcement  ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In light of the Secretary of State’s announcement today that the Government will go ahead with two pilot badger culls, we have reaffirmed our position that comprehensive, coordinated and science-based action is essential in order to reduce or eradicate bovine Tuberculosis (bTB).]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[President's 'Christmas Box' donation to Hounds for Heroes]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[﻿﻿We have decided once again to donate money to a worthy cause, this Christmas, rather than send out traditional greetings cards. Instead we will send an e-card, which is cheaper to produce and issue, and use the money saved to make a ‘President’s Christmas Box’ donation.]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bogus vet sentenced to 20 months]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[﻿A man who worked as a veterinary surgeon in Wiltshire, despite being neither qualified nor registered with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS), received a 20-month sentence at Swindon Crown Court on Friday [9 December 2011].]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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