Submit your questions to the 2022 RCVS Council and RCVS VN Council candidates

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons is calling members of the profession to submit their questions to candidates ahead of the start of the voting period for the 2022 RCVS Council and Veterinary Nurses Council elections.

There are 13 candidates standing in this year’s election for RCVS Council and there are nine for the RCVS VN Council. The full biographies and manifesto statements for each candidate are available to read at www.rcvs.org.uk/vetvote22. As with the 2021 elections, voting this year will take place completely online with Civica Election Services, which runs the elections on behalf of the RCVS, sending emails containing links to a unique voting website to each veterinary surgeon and veterinary nurse eligible to vote in their respective elections.

Ahead of the start of both elections in mid-March, the RCVS is again encouraging veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses to submit questions to the candidates in their relevant election. Candidates will then be asked to record a short video of themselves answering two of the submitted questions of their choice which will be published when the election starts.

Only one question should be submitted per person. Veterinary surgeons can submit a question to the RCVS Council candidates by emailing vetvote22@rcvs.org.uk or via the RCVS Twitter account (@theRCVS) using the hashtag #vetvote22.

Veterinary nurses can submit a question to the VN Council candidates by emailing vnvote22@rcvs.org.uk or via Twitter using the hashtag #vnvote22.

Members of the profession have until Monday 21 February 2022 to submit their question.