18 | CVO ANNUAL REPORT 2025
Quality Team-based Care includes concepts on members’ obligations prior to providing veterinary services, drugs, quality assurance, and after-hours veterinary care.
The regulatory concepts provide clarity on the formal quality assurance program, detail requirements related to after-hours veterinary care, update language on prescription portability and provide clarity on members’ responsibilities related to drug management. Regulatory language related to members’ obligations prior to providing veterinary services will continue.
Administrative includes concepts on alternative dispute resolution and prescribed offences.
The regulatory concepts introduce a method to resolve conflicts and disputes outside of the complaint process, and develop a list of reportable offences related to veterinary medicine and professionalism. Transition Council also proposes moving the Committee and panel composition to CVPO By-Laws, rather than in regulation.
Regulatory Exemptions for Non-Members includes concepts on chiropractors, pharmacy professionals, animal rehabilitation, the Provincial Animal Welfare Services Act, farriers and hoof trimmers, mass culls and embryo implantation.
The regulatory concepts support regulatory exemptions for non-members of the CVPO to perform certain authorized activities.
Accreditation: Regulatory concept provides clarity in the regulations on the accreditation of veterinary facilities related to the certificate of accreditation, a facility director’ s departure, and consequences of unpaid accreditation fees.
Regulatory Exemptions for Members includes regulatory exemptions for members who work under federal or provincial legislation, and for veterinary technician members who are working under a veterinarian member’ s treatment plan outside of an accredited facility.
Transition Council decided not to move ahead with regulatory concepts that permit a veterinary technician to carry out authorized activities outside of an accredited veterinary facility based on a written referral from a veterinary member or as an employee of a non-veterinary animal care provider offering services directly to the public.
Consultation on proposed regulatory concepts:
• 1,067 individuals completed the questionnaire and participated in the consultation over 60 + days.
• 78 % of participants were veterinarians or veterinary technicians.
Further information: cvo. org / modernization