Veterinary practice regulation - good thing or bad thing?

RE: Veterinary practice regulation - good thing or bad thing?

Gerry Henry — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 20:47:23 GMT

More RCVS garbage. Have a look at the preachy ‘green’ stuff they’re pushing. Meantime the Prezzy and Pixie Pockett jaunt off to Denver for the AVMA congress.

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Quote: " Sue said: “With over 70% of practice premises currently under its ambit, our Practice Standards Scheme (PSS) has shown how keen practices are to maintain high standards"

I'm sorry but no, practices showed that they are keen to be part of the scheme and it's only an extrapolation that the scheme leads to high standards. I've seen appalling practices that passed their PSS and excellent practices that are not part of the scheme. It's pure arrogance to imply that the scheme leads to increased standards. What standards?

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Dinu Catilina Agree 100%

RE: Veterinary practice regulation - good thing or bad thing?

Richard Carter — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:59:56 GMT

[quote userid="2131" url="~/f/non-clinical-questions/30871/veterinary-practice-regulation---good-thing-or-bad-thing/243362#243362"]Run by obscurely appointed self-promoting persons. Financed? By you and me.[/quote]

Hahaha- just seen the latest proposal for council… you got some lottery numbers for me?

RE: Veterinary practice regulation - good thing or bad thing?

David Mills — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 13:06:36 GMT

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The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (that's us) gave away the ability and the right to regulate veterinary practices, when Belgravia House decided that persons who were not veterinary surgeons could own veterinary practices.

Now "They" are desperately trying to think of ways to claw it back again.

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This.

The PSS is a perfect example of a pointless exercise in form-filling, the results of which have absolutely no correlation with standard of care or veterinary medicine being practised. Some parts of it could have been taken straight out of the Thick of It.

RE: Veterinary practice regulation - good thing or bad thing?

Richard Carter — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 11:15:37 GMT

It’s also in the nature of a committee to propose changes to the status quo to justify its existence. So putting highly qualified people with a predetermined desire for exceptional hospital level service are probably not the best people to ascertain if there is in fact a problem. Perhaps senior citizens, charities and pet owner groups that aren’t impressed by qualifications and shiny…

RE: Veterinary practice regulation - good thing or bad thing?

Dinu Catilina — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 23:30:58 GMT

[quote userid="2100" url="~/f/non-clinical-questions/30871/veterinary-practice-regulation---good-thing-or-bad-thing"] but do you think nevertheless a necessary step?[/quote]

No.

Quote: " Sue said: “With over 70% of practice premises currently under its ambit, our Practice Standards Scheme (PSS) has shown how keen practices are to maintain high standards"

RE: Veterinary practice regulation - good thing or bad thing?

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:25:52 GMT

[quote userid="2675" url="~/f/non-clinical-questions/30871/veterinary-practice-regulation---good-thing-or-bad-thing/243358#243358"]The tentacles reach out to increase the empire… Expecting gold plating to nth degree, compulsory this and that meaning little one vet practices go to the wall in the name of ‘progress’ and public ‘need’’ . Oh and the ones left standing just happen to be the big national/ international groups [/quote]

Nicely put! I agree entirely.

[quote userid="5012" url="~/f/non-clinical-questions/30871/veterinary-practice-regulation---good-thing-or-bad-thing/243360#243360"]maybe a completely independent body, but how it would be run and financed I don't know? [/quote]

Run by obscurely appointed self-promoting persons. Financed? By you and me.

Now "They" are desperately trying to think of ways to claw it back again.

[quote userid="5012" url="~/f/non-clinical-questions/30871/veterinary-practice-regulation---good-thing-or-bad-thing/243360#243360"]would the RCVS have any or enough jurisdiction? [/quote]

That's why "They" so long for a new Veterinary Surgeons Act.

[quote userid="5012" url="~/f/non-clinical-questions/30871/veterinary-practice-regulation---good-thing-or-bad-thing/243360#243360"]I think the profession should have some form of regulation and monitoring, and some form of enforceable and enforced minimum standard.[/quote]

The profession already have that.

RE: Veterinary practice regulation - good thing or bad thing?

Clive Ansell — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 10:33:58 GMT

Mixed feelings.

I think the profession should have some form of regulation and monitoring, and some form of enforceable and enforced minimum standard.

I'm not convinced it should be the RCVS though? maybe a completely independent body, but how it would be run and financed I don't know?

Given many veterinary practices are no longer owned or run by veterinary surgeons, would the RCVS have any or enough jurisdiction?

I'm not convinced that the voluntary RCVS PSS (Practice Standards Scheme) has or does make any difference whatsoever, and doesn't seem a good barometer of how good or not a practice is. I have worked in excellent practices not in the PSS, and mediocre ones that are.

RE: Veterinary practice regulation - good thing or bad thing?

Richard Carter — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 10:18:15 GMT

The tentacles reach out to increase the empire… Expecting gold plating to nth degree, compulsory this and that meaning little one vet practices go to the wall in the name of ‘progress’ and public ‘need’’ . Oh and the ones left standing just happen to be the big national/ international groups