Not My College ?

We need a new Veterinary Surgeons Act - apparently. Time has moved on and the old one (1966) is no longer serviceable. It's hard to disagree, and if that was what it was about, simply updating, then I wouldn't object. But we're dealing with the RCVS here so it's always wise to look for the ulterior motive. In this case it's in plain sight - they want to use a new Veterinary Surgeons Act to abolish elections and move to an appointed council. It's a power grab pure and simple. The last vestiges of democratic accountability would finally be gone and we'd move to an 'independently appointed' (laff laff) Council, stuffed with the great and the good, all bristling with the relevant skill sets and just itching to get on with advancing the interests of the corporates promoting the best interests of the profession. Does anyone seriously believe the big players (you know who I'm talking about) wouldn't move heaven and earth to get their people 'i...

  From this week's Vet times; 'The college has invited clinicians who have concerns about their independence being undermined to use a confidential helpline to report their concerns following allegations in a Radio 4 investigation.' Can this be the same College that commissioned a former senior police officer to interrogate the RCVS Council in a bid to identify the person who leaked their serious  concerns  about changes to the disciplinary process.   Really ?  The investigation is believed to have cost tens of thousands of pounds but the RCVS has refused to say how much (it's not your money it's ours, shut up!). After all that they didn't find the leak, but the point had been made; as the saying goes, 'the process is the punishment.' So here's a question for the RCVS. Where should Council members go, to whom should they report their  concerns, as our out of touch, elitist College moves further and further away from the practising profession?  Thi...

According to the RCVS we need to be more like other regulators - the GMC  perhaps ? Would this be the same  GMC  that allows male doctors to identify as female doctors without a Gender Recognition Certificate; that expunges their original (male) name from the register, so anyone looking has no idea who this person used to be (or what they have done in the past, or what scandal has previously attached to their original name). Women specifically requesting to be examined by a female doctor (perhaps a young girl, perhaps a rape survivor, perhaps for religious reasons) must submit themselves to examination by a man simply because the biologically illiterate  GMC  can't tell their XXs from their XYs.  This is where it ends, ignominy, embarassment, professional suicide -  Chaos in Peggie vs NHS Fife