September 2024

A quartet of vets are preparing for an epic 1,200 mile ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats in memory of colleague who took her own life.

5 mins

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.

11 mins

Veterinary professionals, students and researchers are being given the chance to showcase their work at a major industry event next spring.

3 mins

Mobile Vet Referral is bringing a range of specialist-led internal medicine services direct to practices.

3 mins

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”.

10 mins

Ben Witcomb and Dan Roden are heading to a shelter to help rehabilitate injured wildlife. 

5 mins

Three districts on both sides of the River Humber have been hit by curtailments after a bull was confirmed to have contracted the virus.

3 mins

Website puppies.co.uk backed veterinary and welfare groups’ long-standing calls for a change of approach to the issue.

9 mins

Three inoculations will be available for use, subject to licence, following an intervention.

4 mins

Claims worth more than £13,000 uncovered in an investigation involving police fraud department.

5 mins

RVC researchers hope their analysis will help to address “unfounded biases”, particularly among owners.

8 mins

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.

8 mins

August 2024

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.

14 mins

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.

5 mins

Leaders of a South Tyneside practice say their plan to move to a new site will enable an increase in staffing and an expansion of services.

4 mins

Clinicians are being encouraged to book their places at a summit this autumn examining issues of patient safety and how to improve it.

4 mins

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.

10 mins

Representatives of Vetlife “thrilled” after veterinary charity nominated for a major award ahead of a ceremony next month.

4 mins

SRUC says its new facility will be one of only a few in the world that can measure all emissions from livestock when it is operational.

6 mins

Restrictions have been extended across a large area of Norfolk and Suffolk following confirmation of further cases in sheep.

4 mins