Changing your name and letting RCVS know

RE: Changing your name and letting RCVS know

Hannah Wynne Richards — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 08:59:18 GMT

You must be on the Register to practice, but although it is customary for a woman to change her surname on marriage, this isn't compulsory.

Wynne

RE: Changing your name and letting RCVS know

J G Wray — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 08:28:36 GMT

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Might be worth a quick email to the RCVS to see what they say

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The RCVS were clear when I phoned them . If not on Register then cannot use MRCVS. If offering to practice then must use name in Register. It's a public Register and listing is a Statutory requirement. Additional details can be withheld from the public register

We check everyone veterinary/nursey these days when we get an offer of services, since the locum who let their registration lapse....This is an offer for referral services here, but it came on the day we also got a distressed phone call from one of our exRVN whose new employers hadn't paid her registration fee and therefore she couldn't do some of the scheduled work. She phoned because she was worried and embarrassed and felt she couldn't trust her new employers. She knows that keeping her name on the Nurse Register is her responsibility, but had been told they would take car,e of it and had no reason to doubt this, until now. Her new employers have a very practical problem this weekend because her duties cover high level nursing of in patients at unsocial times. She is not so naive that she believes that management won't see her as a problem now, tainted by association for causing them a headache.

RE: Changing your name and letting RCVS know

Clive Ansell — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 07:45:20 GMT

Might be worth a quick email to the RCVS to see what they say

RE: Changing your name and letting RCVS know

Michael Woodhouse — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 02:17:20 GMT

Either. To my mild annoyance my wife is still on the register in her maiden name, everything else (passport, credit cards, mortgage, driving licence) is in her married name. If you look on companies house she is a director of the practice in her married name an a clinician in her maiden name.

I know of a few other girls who have kept their maiden name just for work.