The profession

There’s nothing like a weekend on call to generate some weird conversations. Many of my calls seem to begin with the answering service saying, “it’s a bit of an odd one this, but…”. One such call came…

While knowledge can be attained, as the adage goes, “people buy people” – it’s the soft skills that make individuals a success

Corporatisation of equine practice is a topic that divides the profession, with possible influences on work–life balance, client and job satisfaction, treatment costs and salaries

Armed with a balance between scientific enthusiasm and the realities of animal production, it seems very important that veterinary surgeons consider the factors involved in the production of artificial meat as regulators and politicians will be looking for guidance…

Build and retain high-performing teams by embedding the mindset and core principles of coaching into the DNA of your workplace to unleash the potential of your people and organisation

Telemedicine integration holds the potential to transform veterinary care delivery, but it is important that your clients remain at the apex of all your business decisions

One of the things I really enjoy about my job is visiting so many different veterinary practices – I provide an ambulatory ophthalmology referral service to about 40 clinics and seeing how they all wo…

Positive external factors compound and complement one’s overall contentment, but internal factors are required to achieve an authentically joyous life

The BVRA acts as the professional body focusing on the interests of veterinary receptionists in the UK and promotes the status, sets the standard and enables career progression of the role.

A stream at the World Small Animal Veterinary Association online congress 2021 discussed raw food and home-cooked diets: are they effective?

If we make the effort to ensure that our internal monologue is non-damaging, chances are our external words will be helpful and constructive for ourselves and others

My daily walk north of our village takes me down a track with a field on one side and a wood on the other. I say a wood, but when we arrived in the village 25 years ago it was a field just like any ot…

Leaders have an ethical responsibility to address any workplace cultural façades if our industry is to benefit from the transformative potential of the RCVS Veterinary Graduate Development Programme

The cornerstone of tuberculosis (TB) control in cattle and other species is the accurate detection and removal of animals infected with Mycobacterium bovis. The single intradermal comparative cervical…

When offering veterinary services via telemedicine to colleagues or clients overseas, it is vital that colleagues familiarise themselves with the requirements of relevant professional bodies in foreign countries and their obligations therein…

When I die my gravestone may well read “as ever… the late David Williams!” In the ambulatory referral practice I run, visiting about 40 veterinary practices around East Anglia, I always seem to be run…

The need to know more about transmission from animals to humans and the whole area of what to do about it is set for an explosion of awareness

Veterinary staff should recognise that they may not be able to work as efficiently in a global health crisis as they would during normal times and can learn from the experience of people working in other sectors…

The biggest barriers to starting the mental health conversation are that people don’t know what to say, how to bring the topic of mental health up or they are worried they might make the situation worse…

Imposter syndrome is something everyone will experience at some point in their life. It is not a new concept, although only recently has it drawn the attention of the veterinary media. There have been…