Clinicians and campaigners on both sides of the bTB divide have been urged to come together to support the department’s latest strategy to tackle the disease in England.
In submission to Competition and Markets Authority, one sector body wants restrictions in the prescribing rules on clinicians considering clients’ financial circumstances to be “lifted forthwith”.
Campaigners are demanding an immediate end to the badger cull programme, while vets’ and farmers’ groups insist activity should still have a role in Government’s new strategy on the disease.
Department vows to work with vets and farmers in wake of BBC programme, as it today (30 August) also reveals consultation on ending the cull within five years.
Launched by vet-led Zero Pain Philosophy initiative for September’s international Pain Awareness Month, survey will seek to find where knowledge gaps among clinicians still remain.
However, leaders of the Veterinary Antibiotic Amnesty acknowledge more still needs to be done to raise professional engagement ahead of the third annual programme in November.