The Equine Disease Coalition is proposing a 'Voluntary Equine Animals Trading Scheme' (VEATS)

A one day antimicrobial resistance (AMR) symposium is announced for March 2012

  The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) is calling for comment on a draft Performance Protocol, which aims to manage proportionately any justified concerns about the professional performance of veterinary surgeons and registered veterinary nurses (RVNs).   The RCVS's Preliminary Investigation and Advisory Committees have been working together to develop a new protocol setting out the way in which the College will respond to ongoing performance-related concerns. There is an expectation that veterinary surgeons and RVNs are already regularly reviewing their clinical work in the workplace. This will be reinforced by the new principles-based Code of Professional Conduct, currently being finalised, which is likely to require clinical governance to be part of professional practice for veterinary surgeons and RVNs.   The draft protocol is intended to formalise and build on the way the RCVS already manages ongoing serious performance-related concerns. It introduces new measures, including supervision and un ...

Dr Peter Clegg, associate editor of EVJ wins the inaugural LitoVet Scientific Achievement Award at the AHT Equestrian awards

Congratulations to Chris Pearce

Help in Suffering (HIS) champions the welfare of animals in Jaipur

BHA review of safety in the Grand National

RCVS registrar to stand down

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The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons is saddened to learn of the death of a former President of the College, Colonel Peter Storie-Pugh CBE MC FRCVS.   Colonel Storie-Pugh attended the University of Cambridge until 1939, when war and military service interrupted his studies. He took part in the Dunkirk evacuation and, following a number of successful escape attempts from German imprisonment, was incarcerated in Colditz for the remainder of the war. He was awarded the Military Cross and, later, an MBE for his military actions. After the war he resumed his veterinary education, graduating from the Royal Veterinary College in 1948 to pursue a lifelong interest in farm animal practice.   From 1956-1984, he served as a member of RCVS Council and was President from 1977-1978. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1975.   He was twice President of the British Veterinary Association, and a founder of the Federation of Veterinarians of the EEC (now called the Federation of Veterinar ...