Membership Types

CSVS Accredited Membership

These members are all persons who have gained and maintained accreditation as a clinical vascular scientist with the CSVS and whose primary responsibilities include non-invasive vascular investigations, including those persons who have proceeded to a supervisory and/or educational role.

Accredited membership allow the member if eligible to hold office on the Executive Committee and to vote. Accredited Members are also included in a voluntary register which will show up to date accreditation. This information will be available through the CSVS website to any interested party including non-members

Ordinary Membership

These members are all CSVS trainees and STP Graduates without additional AVS whose primary responsibilities include non-invasive vascular investigations.
Ordinary membership allow the member if eligible to hold office on the Executive Committee and to vote.

Associate Membership

These members are interested persons for example, surgeons, radiologists, screening technicians and sonographers etc whose main profession may not be vascular science but who take an interest or perform some non-invasive vascular investigations. These can also be all overseas members except those working outside the UK under their AVS qualification who will remain as Accredited members. Associate membership does not allow the member to hold office on the Executive Committee, nor vote, or obtain Indemnity Insurance through SOR but allows otherwise the member to enjoy the same rights and privileges as Accredited members.

Honorary Members

These members are persons whom the Committee select in recognition of that person's contribution and support to the CSVS. Nominations for Honorary membership are passed following a vote by Executive committee members in which all committee members must agree.