Association looking for more people to join the numbers on its board of directors to help frame its future direction and work, with elections in autumn.
Vale Vets near Bristol one of a number of practices to benefit from some of the 17,000 personal protective equipment visors produced for key workers by Somerset senior school.
Association calls for contact tracing rules to be amended for veterinary professionals to protect both animal welfare and practices that have taken a financial battering during COVID-19 lockdown.
VetPartners, which looks after 30% off the UK’s dairy population and 45% of all pigs, wants main retailers and food service sector to source from UK’s food supply chains.
"This is about values. We should show the world where we stand on animal welfare and food production standards, and putting it in law does just that." – vet and MP Neil Parish.
Sheep-focused webinar hears from farmers calling for more proactive input from their vets, who are encouraged to adopt “holistic view of all aspects of sheep farming”.
“Besnoitia bennetti can infect any members of the family Equidae – so horses, donkeys, mules and zebras are susceptible to infection by this parasite." – Hany Elsheikha, University of Nottingham.
“There needs to be a top-down approach with the RCVS, BVA, universities and corporates taking the lead” – Nicole Regan of the British Veterinary Ethnicity and Diversity Society steering group.
Aimed at vets and veterinary nurses, the course is being tutored by emergency and critical care specialist Susanna Solbak from Lumbry Park Veterinary Specialists.
Results for XLVets study involving 25 farms find low levels of infection, and point to the need for a more targeted flukicide strategy drawn up between farms and vets.
Andrew Kent and Fergus Allerton running 90-minute sessions on a Thursday evening covering internal medicine topics, offering CPD that includes breakout rooms, polls and chat rooms.
“While many have already undertaken the survey, we are keen to hear from more participants, so I would like to implore any general practice vets to please help contribute to our work by taking part in our short survey”– Gareth Jones, RVC.
