Team at the University of Liverpool finds vets and owners disagree on how many times an older dog should visit a practice and whether senior dogs still need vaccinations.
Group has rolled out a clinical assessment tool for use by vets or nurses to allow a holistic approach to assessing dogs – rather than historic focus solely on respiratory issues.
SPVS believes findings, including number of vet professionals undertaking overtime halving in three years, indicate things could be getting better for sector.
The University of Bristol’s Feline Centre is internationally renowned for its excellence and education in cat care, and is marking its half century with a full-day of CPD on 15 May.
In a letter responding to the Competition and Markets Authority’s review findings, the college also called for greater public recognition that most front-line clinicians are not responsible for business decisions.
Evidence presented to a House of Lords committee suggested the number of drugs at risk of being lost may be lower than previously thought, but ministers are still being urged to seek an early resolve.
PDSA veterinary services director Richard Hooker speaks out after his organisation is forced to halt the registration of new clients at some of its sites because of staffing pressures.
CVS-owned The Harrogate Vet will become the first practice providing an emergency service in the town for five years when its new hospital opens in July.
A Yorkshire-based vet who attacked his former partner before sending the RCVS false references in her name and threatening her showed a “deep-seated attitudinal problem”, a disciplinary report said.
Analysis – believed to be the first of its kind – of more than 10,000 SAVSNET records by academics at the University of Liverpool identified around 800 individual incidents.
Overall theme covering appropriate and proportionate care being tailored to needs of animals and clients will run through each stream at the event in Birmingham.
Despite being open for less than 12 months, vets at the practice have published multiple peer-reviewed papers, research abstracts, review articles and book chapters.
With compulsory microchipping of cats in England coming in from 10 June, Identi has created resources including literature and videos to inform clients.
Around one in five respondents said their dealings with pet owners had been “more negative” following the release of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) report last month.
