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RVC scoops ‘Outstanding’ awards from RCVS Practice Standards Scheme
The RVC’s three veterinary hospitals, as well as its ambulatory Equine Practice, have all been judged as ‘Outstanding’
for various awards by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS).
The Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA), the Equine Referral Hospital, the Equine Ambulatory Practice,
and the Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital (BSAH) were successfully assessed under the Practice Standards Scheme (PSS).
This extraordinary achievement highlights the high levels of skill and professionalism shown by the RVC teams and the unparalleled learning opportunities for RVC students. All three hospitals gained ‘Outstanding’ awards in the following categories:
• Team and Professional Responsibility • Client Service
• Diagnostic Service
• In-Patient Service
Each hospital also received additional ‘Outstanding’ awards in other areas. The QMHA received the designation for the Emergency and Critical Care Service, the BSAH in Patient Consultation Service and the equine team for the Ambulatory Service.
Commenting on the achievement, Professor David Church, Deputy Principal and Acting Vice Principal (Clinical Affairs), said: “We are absolutely delighted that the robust evaluation processes of the RCVS has confirmed the outstanding performances of our clinical centres.”
Professor Dan Chan, Head of Department of Clinical Science and Services, added: “We are extremely proud of these achievements as they reflect the absolute commitment and dedication of our teams in delivering the very best care to our patients and best service to our clients.”
GENERAL NEWS
RVC alumni are invited to visit the exhibition for FREE!
If you would like to attend
please email us at development@rvc.ac.uk.
We will send you a confirmation that you will need to show at the Gallery in order to gain free entry to the exhibition.
Where has the RVC’s Eclipse skeleton gone?
During the summer Eclipse’s skeleton disappeared from the Hawkshead Library – all that remains is the empty display case, but where did he go?
Eclipse has been getting cleaned and spruced up and is now the focal point of an exhibition at the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes, Bucks.
The exhibition – George Stubbs: ‘all done
from Nature’ presents the first significant
overview of Stubbs’ work in Britain for more than
30 years and brings together 100 paintings, drawings and publications from the National Gallery’s Whistlejacket to pieces that have never been seen in public.
Today, Stubbs is recognised as one of the most original artists of the eighteenth century. His wide-ranging subjects included portraits, conversation pieces and pictures of exotic and domestic animals—horses included—and his obsession with scientific exactitude has drawn comparison with the work of Leonardo da Vinci. A major theme of the exhibition is anatomy. The show includes forensic drawings by Stubbs of humans, tigers and hens, as well as horses, at different stages of ‘undressing’. This greatest coming together of art and science in British art will be set alongside the actual skeleton, loaned by the RVC, of the legendary racehorse Eclipse which Stubbs depicted on several occasions.
Eclipse will then travel to The Hague before returning home to the RVC in 2020.
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