Congress 2025 - Saturday

In this session we cover the following topics:

• Details of the new RCVS strategic plan
• RCVS response to challenges and opportunities facing the profession, such as the CMA review, Artificial Intelligence
• RCVS legislative reform proposals - details and progress.

When Sch 3 is used optimally by veterinary surgeons to delegate to veterinary nurses, it improves clinically efficiency, access to affordable veterinary care and ultimately animal health and welfare and this in turn reduces the stress levels for the veterinary surgeons and also often improves practice profitability.

Understanding of how delegation works is sadly still lacking within the veterinary professions, when compared to human health care, everyone knows what a human nurse can do, we need this same level of clarity for veterinary nurses . In this session we will do much need myth busting and discuss what we can all do to improve this area of veterinary care for all parties involved

This session will use data and insights from the RCVS Surveys of the Professions 2024, the IES workforce modelling report and wider employment insights from outside of the veterinary sphere. The data will be used as a foundation for a discussion on building workplaces that promote retention as well as recruitment. With a focus on the challenges facing vets in different age groups and career stages, it is a chance to cast a data-driven light on potential developments in the veterinary workplace. Understanding the needs and concerns of the workforce at different life and career stages can help build a veterinary workplace that fits the needs of the workforce in a positive setting for all, including the animals and their owners.

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