Author wrote:
I see the RCVS had an extraordinary meeting on 3rd of this month .The purpose was to debate the proposed new Veterinary Surgeons Act. They are absolutely right to be worried ,but reform will come too late for some of the public who complained about some of their members and were frozen out. Self regulation notoriously doesn't work well, for somewhat obvious reasons and having a few overawed lay members of a committee will not change that. They should have disciplined the guilty and thrown the rotten apples out of the barrel. Unfortunately, one suspects that some of these wrong-uns were quite high up in the system and had undue influence on events. There is now a new CVS, will a new broom sweep clean or not ? For the sake of the profession, I sincerelt hope it does.
Frances