Veterinary Associations

RCVS Knowledge elects new Chair

vetreportJuly 4, 2014

RCVS Knowledge welcomed director of Prince Bishop Veterinary Hospital and former RCVS President, Jacqui Molyneux, as its newly appointed Chair of the Board of Trustees, following its Annual General Meeting at Belgravia House in London on 6 June 2014.

Jill Nute stands down as Chair for RCVS Knowledge after four years in post. Mrs Nute thanked the staff at RCVS Knowledge, saying that they had been a “great team to work with.”

She continued, “I was Chair during Nick Royle’s appointment as Executive Director last year, and he has been a breath of fresh air for the organisation. It has been a very exciting time, one that makes RCVS Knowledge relevant to the next generation through its focus on EBVM and on making the library and information service the home of the profession.”

Nick Royle was appointed in 2013, when the charity’s Board of Trustees agreed a new strategy to develop an evidence-based resource for the veterinary profession. Mr Royle was previously CEO of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international health care charity and leader in evidence-based human medicine.

Mr Royle thanked Mrs Nute on behalf of the Trustees and staff, saying that “Jill has navigated us through the past few years of real change, for which we are hugely grateful.”

Jacqui Molyneux has served on the RCVS Knowledge Board of Trustees for three years and has been a strong advocate of the EBVM focus. She says that her key goal as Chair for the next three years will be to get practitioners engaged in EBVM.

She says: “I think it’s absolutely key to get the practitioners, who are excited by the idea of EBVM, involved – doing primary research, or literature searches, or putting together Knowledge Summaries. We need practitioners to come on board, because if 200 practitioners do a little bit, that’s a huge amount of extra knowledge. I truly believe there are hundreds of practitioners out there who want to be involved, we just need to excite their interest and give them a way forward.”

You can read more from Jacqui Molyneux in a recent interview with her at http://knowledge.rcvs.org.uk/about-us/board-of-trustees/jacqui-molyneux-elected/.