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Congratulations to Emma Campbell, the winner of our Anti-Bullying Competition

Huge congratulations to Emma Campbell, a BSc (Hons) Veterinary Nursing student at our Edinburgh centre, for winning our ‘We’re Better Without Bullying’ competition. Emma, who submitted the winning poem below, wins £100. Well done Emma! We’re better without bullying Society today claims to tackle the problem at hand, What we really need is someone, who’s willing to […]

17/12/2012

Reminder to all September 2012 Start Level 3 Diploma in Veterinary Nursing Students

If you started the Level 3 Diploma in Veterinary Nursing programme in September 2012 this reminder is for you! Please do not forget that NPL Units VN1,2,5 & 7 need to be completed by 31 January 2013 (excluding the stabling task in VN5). VN3 should be completed by February – March 2013, followed by VN4 in March – April […]

24+Advanced Learning Loans: Important Information for Students Starting Level 3 Courses from 1 August 2013

From 1 August 2013 learners in England, aged 24 years of age or over, will no longer have level 3 programmes such as A Levels, advanced apprenticeships and level 3 Diplomas subsidised by the Government. Instead the learner, or their employer, will be required to pay the course fees plus the money which would have […]

13/12/2012

RCVS Register of Members 2012 Now Available to Buy

Copies of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Register of Members 2012 are now available to purchase. For the first time, printed copies of the Register of Members and List/Register of Veterinary Nurses are no longer being posted free of charge to all veterinary surgeons and VNs respectively. Veterinary practices and the public can […]

12/12/2012

Professor Gregory to Present Awards at our Annual Student Awards Ceremony

Students and employers are set to be recognised at our annual Student Awards Ceremony tomorrow (Saturday 8 December). The annual Student Awards Ceremony recognises the achievements that students have made during the year and the support that mentors, coaches and employers have provided to them. Each student who has been nominated for an award has […]

07/12/2012

Veterinary nurse’s drive for innovation wins RCVS Charitable Trust competition

Registered veterinary nurse Sarah Hancill has won the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Charitable Trust’s (the Trust) ‘Driving Practice Innovation’ competition, with her idea for a peripheral venous catheter care checklist. “The peripheral venous catheter care checklist is intended to increase patient safety. It consists of 14 quality indicators, repeated every 24 hours over a […]

Dog adopts abandoned tiger cubs

A Siberian tiger called Bagira gave birth to three cubs at the Sochi zoo in Russia. After the cubs were abandoned by the tigress the zoo vets advertised on the internet for a feeding dog. That’s where a Berger Blanc Suisse dog called Tally stepped in as their foster parent.

Working Together Towards First-Rate Regulation: Have Your Say

Members of the veterinary profession are being given a unique opportunity to help improve the way the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) regulates their professions, as part of its First-Rate Regulator initiative. Members of the veterinary team are being asked about their recent interactions with the RCVS, what they think the organisation does well, […]

06/12/2012

The RCVS Want Your Comments for the Practice Standards Scheme

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) has called for comments on a Concept Note, which considers how the Practice Standards Scheme might develop in the future. The Scheme is administered by the RCVS and the detailed Standards are decided in consultation with the Practice Standards Group (PSG), which includes representatives from all of the […]

28/11/2012

January Start Veterinary Nursing Programmes – Why Wait Until September?

If you’re looking to start training as a veterinary nurse, our next day release Level 3 Diploma in Veterinary Nursing programme starts the week commencing the 7 January 2013. This particular programme is for students who are employed in a veterinary practice that is approved to train veterinary nurses – a Training Practice (TP) or […]

27/11/2012