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The World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA) is urging companion animal veterinarians globally to complete a multi-lingual online questionnaire from its newly formed Professional Wellness Gro…

Vets are being urged to report suspected dog fighting injuries by a leading animal welfare charity, following evidence eye-witness accounts are going unreported.The appeal from the League Against Crue…

Are you proud of your practice marketing? Then why not showcase your hard work and enter the Practice Marketing Award for the Veterinary Marketing Association (VMA) Annual Awards? That’s the message f…

An innovative veterinary research and development company set to revolutionise the UK and global pet market has filed patents for groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) technology

The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has warned that pet owners must start preparing now if they want to take their pet to the EU after Brexit, in case a no-deal situation leaves them facing long …

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Council has approved changes to the supporting guidance that underpins its Code of Professional Conduct to allow for non-veterinarians to support veteri…

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Council has voted to refer a proposed telemedicine trial to the RCVS Standards Committee for further development

This month the Veterinary Client Mediation Service (VCMS), established and funded by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS), has passed the one-year mark having dealt with over 2,000 cases of…

New study shows that farm animal welfare is not compromised on larger farms – but there is room for improvement

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) has published a series of case studies to aid veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses regarding the important issue of gaining informed consent from c…

The BVA has unveiled a set of guiding principles and recommendations to support the veterinary profession in working collaboratively to tackle the health and welfare impact of extreme conformations ac…

The BVA has welcomed the recommendations put forward by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) committee on breed-specific legislation (BSL), which calls on the government to conduct a full-sc…

Scotland's government has announced that a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, had been discovered on a farm in Aberdeenshire. A quarantine area has been put in place a…

Veterinary CPD specialist Improve International will launch a distance learning version of one of its most popular postgraduate certificate (PgC) programmes, Small Animal Medicine, in January 2019. T…

The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has been awarded a £7 million grant by Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership to support the creation of a state-of-the-art Veterinary Vaccinology and Cell Thera…

The government has committed £30 million for further rounds of the popular Countryside Productivity Small Grants scheme (CPSGS), which helps farmers buy the equipment they need to boost productivity a…

A leading vet has told a major international conference that Brexit has the potential to decimate the United Kingdom’s veterinary, food and agricultural sectors. Speaking at Visegrád Vet Plus near Bud…

The BVA has responded to the government’s proposals for a post-Brexit immigration system. Under the proposals, unveiled on 2 October 2018 by Home Secretary Sajid Javid in his party conference speech, …

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) has issued a position statement concerning Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) proposals for the new role of Certification Support Officers (CSOs). Th…

The RCVS Council has agreed to extend the Mind Matters Initiative on a rolling three-year basis and to increase its funding to £250,000 per year. This investment will allow the initiative to continue …