The RCVS has announced the winners of its 2021 Honours and Awards, which this year included one veterinary nurse for her work in the field of canine arthritis, and another for her work at the Blue Cross. 

The VN Golden Jubilee Award was given to Kirsty Cavill…

VN Council Chair, Matthew Rendle, talked of a bright future for the veterinary nursing profession at the RCVS AGM last week. 

Matthew's address looked at the significance of 2021 as veterinary nursing’s Diamond Jubilee – representing 60 years since…

The RCVS has opened nominations for its Honours & Awards 2022.

The award categories that someone can be nominated for are:

• The Queen’s Medal – an award for a veterinary surgeon with a lifetime of outstanding contributions to the profession.…

The RCVS has published an interim report of the achievements so far of its VN Futures project to champion and improve veterinary nursing. 

The project was launched as a joint initiative between the RCVS and the BVNA in 2016. Its objectives included highlighting…

As part of its Black History Month activities, the RCVS has put together a series of video interviews with black and mixed heritage newly-qualified and student vets and nurses, talking about what inspired them to join the veterinary profession and how…

The RCVS and the Veterinary Schools Council (VSC) have published recommendations on how support for Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) veterinary students can be improved.

The report is the culmination of the work of a joint RCVS and VSC BAME Student…

The RCVS has opened the nomination period for its 2023 Honours & Awards, to recognise veterinary surgeons, veterinary nurses and laypeople, both in the UK and overseas, who are doing their utmost for animal health and welfare, the professions and society…

Newly-invested RCVS President, Dr Sue Paterson FRCVS, has announced that her focus for this year will be on widening access to the veterinary profession to those from different socioeconomic, ethnic and religious groups.

She said: “My theme will be focussed…

The RCVS is looking for a vet nurse to join a new engagement group tasked with raising awareness of the importance of CPD for vets and nurses.

The group will also be supporting members in how to reflect on their CPD as a way of consolidating learning,…

Perdi Welsh, Director of School of Veterinary Nursing at the RVC has been given the RCVS VN Golden Jubilee Award for her dedication to professional development for veterinary nurses.

The RCVS VN Golden Jubilee Award is the highest individual award that…

Professor Stephen May FRCVS, Emeritus Professor at the Royal Veterinary College, and Kulin Patel MRCVS, Veterinary Advisor for International Trade at Defra, have been awarded OBEs in King Charles III’s Birthday Honours List

Stephen was recognised…

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) has published an updated framework governing how veterinary nursing educators develop and deliver the Certificate in Advanced Veterinary Nursing (CertAVN).

The CertAVN was introduced in 2019 as a modular…