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New RCVS webinars to address COVID-19 leadership challenges
"Veterinary professionals are known for their adaptability, resourcefulness and creativity and these sessions should complement this" - Oliver Glackin, RCVS leadership initiatives manager.

Sessions will offer practical advice and guidance to support the veterinary team.

The RCVS has announced the launch of a free webinar series for veterinary professionals to address the leadership challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

The webinar series has come about through a collaboration with the Tavistock Institute, a not-for-profit organisation that applies social science methodologies to contemporary issues and problems.

Each hour-long session will be led by an expert in the field of organisational development and change, and listeners will be urged to consider the wide-ranging effects the pandemic has had both in their workplaces and their lives.

Each week the webinars will tackle a specific theme, beginning with 'exploring an building on resilience'. Listeners will be given advice, guidance and coaching to enable them to grow their understanding and confidence, so that they feel better placed to negotiate, lead, or support others.

“What was just a few weeks ago unprecedented has now become our new normal,” explained Oliver Glackin, RCVS leadership initiatives manager. “We have entered a period of uncertainty and turbulence which will bring significant changes – if it has not already done so to our personal and professional lives.

“To help make sense of this at an individual, group and organisational level, I’m really pleased to have been able to join forces with the Tavistock Institute which has a long track record of helping guide people and businesses through periods of upheaval.”

The following free lunchtime sessions will take place weekly, starting on Thursday 2 July, at 1 pm.

  • exploring and building resilience with Anne Benson – Thursday, 2 July
  • working with change with Dr Leslie Brissett – Thursday, 9 July
  • the emotional impact of leading with Dr Sadie King – Thursday, 16 July
  • working and leading through times of uncertainty in work and the world around you with Dr Dione Hills – Thursday, 23 July


Oliver added: “Veterinary professionals are known for their adaptability, resourcefulness and creativity and these sessions should complement this by putting the complex and all-enveloping nature of our shared circumstances into context before giving practical advice and coaching so that all members of the veterinary team can help themselves and support colleagues, teams and animal owners, through these uncharted waters.”

To register, or to be kept up-to-date with further information on the seminars and presenters as they are posted, visit rcvs.org.uk

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Practices urged to audit neutering data

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 RCVS Knowledge has called on vet practices to audit their post-operative neutering outcomes.

It follows the release of the 2024 NASAN benchmarking report, which collates data from neutering procedures performed on dogs, cats and rabbits.

The benchmarking report enables practices in the UK and Ireland to compare their post-operative outcomes to the national average. This includes the rate of patients lost to follow-up, which in 2024 increased to 23 per cent.

Anyone from the practice can submit the data using a free template. The deadline for next report is February 2026.

Visit the RCVS Knowledge website to complete an audit. 

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RCVS pays tribute to well-loved equine vet

The RCVS and the Riding Establishments Subcommittee has paid tribute to well-loved veterinary surgeon and riding establishment inspector, Rebecca Hamilton-Fletcher MRCVS.

Linda Belton MRCVS, RCVS President, said: "I, along with my colleagues on the RESC, RCVS Council, RCVS Standards Committee, as well as RCVS staff, was very saddened to hear of the sudden death of Rebecca, or Becca as we knew her, last week.

"She was a true advocate for equine welfare and in her many years on the RESC worked to continually improve the quality and consistency of riding establishment inspections, all in the interests of enhanced horse welfare and rider safety."