In a landmark disciplinary case last week, Staffordshire-based veterinary surgeon Roger Meacock MRCVS has undertaken to amend his website after the College alleged it contained content which was either misleading or inaccurate to the point of bringing…

The RCVS Veterinary Nurse Disciplinary Committee has suspended Gwent-based veterinary nurse Samantha Giles from the Register for two months after she failed to respond to repeated requests to provide her CPD records.

At the outset of the hearing, Ms…

The RCVS Veterinary Nurse Disciplinary Committee has directed the Registrar to suspend Surrey-based Lois Hodgkinson RVN for ten months, for ordering prescription drugs for her own use through the practice's veterinary wholesaler ordering system.

Nicola Buttler, a Somerset-based veterinary nurse, has been struck off by the RCVS Veterinary Nurse Disciplinary Committee for working whilst under the influence of alcohol.

Ms Buttler was charged with having been under the influence of alcohol whilst…

West Midlands-based veterinary nurse Laura Jane Garfield has been struck off by the RCVS Veterinary Nurse Disciplinary Committee after it found that she had misled and been dishonest with a charity.

The Disciplinary Committee heard that Mrs Garfield had…

Yorkshire-based Richard Sutcliffe MRCVS has been suspended for six months after being convicted of common assault, and for conducting surgery and administering POM-V medicine to a person.

The first charge related to his conviction on two counts of common…

Dunbartonshire-based Georgina Bretman has been struck off the Register of Veterinary Nurses by the RCVS VN Disciplinary Committee following her conviction in 2017 for causing unnecessary pain and suffering to an animal.

In August 2017, Georgina Bretman…

Geoffrey William Irvine MRCVS and Igor Vasilev MRCVS have been found not guilty of serious professional misconduct by the RCVS Disciplinary Committee after a hearing into the case of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, called Rupert, which died following…

The RCVS Veterinary Nurse Disciplinary Committee has directed that London-based veterinary nurse Paul Chaney is removed from the Register after he was found guilty of a stealing, possessing and unlawfully administering various veterinary drugs, and that…

The RCVS Veterinary Nurses Disciplinary Committee has ordered that Karen Tracey Hancock be removed from the Register after finding that she had been dishonest about an injury she claimed to have sustained while working in practice in August 2015.

The inquiry…

The RCVS Veterinary Nurse Disciplinary Committee has struck off an unnamed veterinary nurse after they were convicted of grooming someone they believed to be aged under 16 for the purposes of sexual gratification.

The Disciplinary Committee took the unusual…

Paisley-based Laura Benson RVN has been suspended for nine months by the RCVS VN Disciplinary Committee for stealing from her veterinary practice and asking a colleague to input false clinical records about her pet.

Ms Benson faced six charges.

The first…

Katherine Heyes RVN has been reprimanded and warned as to her future conduct by the RCVS VN Disciplinary Committee after she was convicted of being drunk in an aircraft. 

At first glance, one might ask why? After all, who - other than the pilot - would…

Northumberland-based Melanie Jane Herdman RVN has been suspended for three months by the RCVS Veterinary Nurse Disciplinary Committee for supplying controlled drugs to a friend.

Miss Herdman faced three charges.

The first was that she indicated to a friend…

An unnamed veterinary nurse has been struck off by the RCVS VN Disciplinary Committee for claiming to be a veterinary surgeon and for making offensive and discriminatory remarks on the social media platform X (Twitter).

The individual, referred to as…

Shakira Free Miles RVN has been reprimanded and warned by the RCVS VN Council Disciplinary Committee after pleading guilty last year to six counts of theft and one of the attempted theft of animals which she and her co-defendants mistakenly believed were…

Gemma Louise Cole has been struck off by the RCVS Veterinary Nurse Disciplinary Committee following her conviction for pet insurance fraud in 2024.

Mrs Cole pleaded guilty to fraud in July 2024 at Crawley Magistrates’ Court and was sentenced to eight months…

Bristol-based Dayna Johnson has been struck off by the RCVS Veterinary Nurse Disciplinary Committee after she was convicted of stealing controlled drugs from a practice where she worked.

Miss Johnson was convicted at North Somerset Magistrates’ Court following…

The RCVS Veterinary Nurse Disciplinary Committee has ruled that Somerset-based William Kane is fit to practice after he was convicted of three counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

Mr Kane was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, suspended…

Warwick Seymour-Hamilton, a former veterinary surgeon who was removed from the Register in 1994, has had his twelfth application to be restored to the Register of Veterinary Surgeons refused.

Mr Seymour-Hamilton was originally struck off in 1994 after his…

Julie Hickman has been suspended for six months by the RCVS Veterinary Nurses’ Disciplinary Committee after she admitted falling asleep and  leaving hospitalised animals unattended, and then falsifying clinical records.

Ms Hickman was charged with…

Rebecca Davies has been struck off by the RCVS Veterinary Nurse Disciplinary Committee after acting without and against the direction of a veterinary surgeon on multiple occasions.

Miss Davies faced four charges:

1. That during a surgical procedure, she 

A former veterinary officer of the British Horseracing Authority, Miss Bethan Cook, has been struck off by the RCVS Disciplinary Committee after she forged communication from her GP as part of an internal BHA disciplinary process.

Miss Cook was charged…

The RCVS Disciplinary Committee has refused an application for restoration to the Register from a former Scarborough-based veterinary surgeon, Mr Matthew Makepeace.

Mr Makepeace was removed from the Register in 2024 after being convicted of assaulting…

Dr Tudor Herlea MRCVS has been reprimanded by the RCVS Disciplinary Committee following a conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol and driving while his licence was suspended.

Dr Herlea MRCVS was convicted on 15 January 2025 at the Cluj Court…