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    Petplan wins Best Pet Insurance Provider

    Petplan has been named the UK's Best Pet Insurance Provider at the Consumer Moneyfacts awards. Voted for by over 17,000 consumers, the awards recognise the best financial products available to consumers in the UK. Petplan, which says it has recently...
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    SPVS launches Veterinary Business Excellence Awards

    SPVS has launched the Veterinary Business Excellence Awards, an initiative designed to honour outstanding veterinary practices that have demonstrated exceptional performance and innovation in areas that are crucial to the success of the profession...
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    65% of owners say the dog's anxiety makes it difficult to visit the vet

    According to research conducted by Petplan, 65% of dog owners say they find visits to the vet difficult because of their dog's anxiety. 25% of owners said they have seen their dog running away on hearing the word 'vet' and 30% have actively avoided...
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    RCVS announces appointments for new DC and PIC

    The RCVS has announced that the first members of its reconstituted Disciplinary and Preliminary Investigation Committees have been appointed and will join the Committees from July 2013. Beverley Cottrell and Catherine Goldie (pictured right) have...
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    Last chance to nominate for an animal welfare award

    Ceva Animal Health has made a last call for anyone to nominate a veterinary professional, charity worker or volunteer for one of its Animal Welfare Awards. The awards are designed to help identify and celebrate the people who work to help better the...
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    Agria offers insurance 'age amnesty' for older pets

    Agria Pet Insurance has announced an 'age amnesty' in May, during which time the company will quote for cover regardless of the age of a pet. The company says it is common for the owners of older pets to have difficulties finding insurance cover for...
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    Dechra offers vets free Identichips®

    Dechra Veterinary Products is offering vets free Identichips® worth £100 when they order Equipalazone® Powder 100s. The European Union (EU) has now approved regulations that any equine foal born after July 1 2009 should be micro-chipped...
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    CVS equips its vets with pocket clinical resource

    CVS is equipping its vets with MiGuide, a pocket resource containing the clinical information they need every day in first opinion companion animal practice. CVS says it believes the phone-based resource is a first in the profession. It contains...
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    Kent practice named Employee Ownership Association Rising Star

    Pennard Vets has won the Employee Ownership Association's (EOA) Rising Star award, which recognises the success of an organisation within three years of employee ownership The judges praised the practice group for leveraging employee ownership (EO...
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    New sub-Cert level special interest courses

    Improve International has announced that it is to launch new 'mini-modular' courses in dentistry, oncology, neurology and ultrasound for those practitioners that want to develop a more in-depth knowledge than they would gain from a one-day course without...
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    Hysolv offers free swine flu diagnostic test to vets

    Hysolv Animal Health has announced that it is offering a free swine flu laboratory diagnostic service to veterinary surgeons in the UK and Ireland. The company will supply kits to veterinary surgeons with which to take samples from pig herds they...
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    Defra publishes bluetongue control strategy

    Defra has published a revised Bluetongue Disease Control Strategy for the U.K., available here: http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/diseases/notifiable/bluetongue/index.htm
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    Improve offers £2500 off flagship courses

    To celebrate its 25-year anniversary, Improve Veterinary Education is offering £2,500 off its two flagship programmes: Small Animal Surgery and Small Animal Medicine. The offer runs until 17th September 2023 and vets who sign up for the face-to-face...
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    RCVS launches campaign to encourage vet practices to make adjustments for disability

    The RCVS has launched ‘Let’s talk adjustments’, a campaign to raise awareness of reasonable adjustments employers should make to remove or reduce a disadvantage related to an employee’s disability, whether it be physical or mental. Reasonable adjustments...
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    Piglet gut health seminar to look at what will replace zinc

    Elanco is to hold a seminar on piglet gut health, to help support the transition away from medicinal zinc usage to control post-weaning diarrhoea (PWD), at the Jury’s Inn hotel, near Hinckley, Leicestershire, on 21st September from 11am – 1pm. Leading...
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    New solution for bovine respiratory disease

    Dechra has launched Cyclofin, an injectable single-dose solution for acute bovine respiratory disease (BRD) caused by oxytetracycline-sensitive Mannheimia (Pasteurella) haemolytica and Pasteurella multocida where an anti-inflammatory and anti-pyretic...
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    Grahame Gardner's summer scrubwear collection

    Graham Gardner has launched its summer collection of scrubwear in the form updated versions of its Urbane and Easiphit Collections, with new colour combinations added to the range. The Urbane Collection , pictured right, is designed specifically for...
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    Postgraduate Deans appointed

    Two new Postgraduate Deans have been appointed by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons to advise and monitor new veterinary surgeons during their Professional Development Phase (PDP), the first stage in veterinary continuing professional development...
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    New swine infection screening system

    US-based Life Technologies has launched a new PCR-based test system which, according to the company, allows large numbers of pigs to be screened more quickly and cost-effectively for a range of common pathogens, such as PRRSV, SIV and PCV2. The system...
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    BSAVA highlights guidance on Antibiotic Awareness Day

    The British Small Animal Veterinary Association is using European Antibiotics Awareness Day (today) to highlight its guidance on the appropriate use of antimicrobials . European Antibiotic Awareness Day is an annual campaign held to raise awareness...
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    Ceva donates £3000 to student-led antimicrobial resistance research

    Ceva Animal Health has donated £3,000 to the Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies (Edinburgh University) to help fund a student-led project on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Allison Henry, product manager at Ceva Animal Health, said: "We have...
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    BSAVA asks vet practices to help with PetSavers fundraiser

    The BSAVA has launched a campaign to encourage vet practices to fundraise for PetSavers, its charitable arm which funds clinical research into companion animal diseases. To get involved, you can use the downloadable fundraising pack, which includes...
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    Vet launches new snack for dogs with cancer

    Dutch veterinary oncologist Camille De Ley has launched BraveBites, a snack designed to support canine cancer patients, in the UK. BraveBites contains protein, fish oil (rich in omega-3) and prebiotics. The snack, which was developed with a veterinary...
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    Felicity Kendal fronts Blue Cross BBC Lifeline appeal

    The Blue Cross is to be the first animal charity to star in a BBC Lifeline appeal to help raise funds for animals in need. Presented by actress Felicity Kendal and her cocker spaniel George, the short film shows the work of the charity which helps...
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    Royal Canin launches breed specific diets for Dalmations and Bulldogs

    Royal Canin has launched Breed Health Nutrition (BHN) foods for adult Dalmatians and French Bulldogs, bringing the company's portfolio of BHN foods up to a total of 19 dog breeds and four cat breeds. Royal Canin vet marketing manager Ali Daff said...