SPVS has announced that its 2025 Congress, aimed at the whole practice team, will take place at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole from Thursday 30th January to Saturday 1st February 2025.

The opening speaker will be Cassie Leonard (pictured), engineer,…

VETcpd is holding its annual CPD Congress, the largest of very few CPD events held in the south-west, on 25th and 26th September at Sandy Park Conference Centre, Exeter.

There are two main streams – veterinary and nursing – alongside which there will…

Evolution Exotics, a new, independent exotics referral clinic which is opening on the 1st October in Cleobury Mortimer, South Shropshire, is hosting an open day for vets on Saturday 21st September from 10:00am to 4:00am. 

The new clinic is led by Marie…

In tandem with the launch of Cortotic, a corticosteroid-only, antimicrobial-free treatment for the clinical signs associated with canine otitis externa, Virbac is hosting a free webinar at 7:30pm on Tuesday 10th September 2024.

'Otitis Externa: Understanding…

BEVA has announced that this year, there will be a lecture stream at Congress dedicated to feet and farriery, aimed at vets, nurses and farriers, and designed to encourage teamwork between the three. 

The farriery stream will run all day on Saturday 14…

Nominations are now open for the second annual SPVS Veterinary Business Excellence Awards.

The awards are to recognise outstanding veterinary practices that have demonstrated exceptional performance and innovation in areas crucial to the future success…

Davies Veterinary Specialists' 2024 Congress is coming up on Saturday, September 28th, at The Forest Centre, Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.

The streams for vets will include six lectures on topics ranging from neurology to dentistry, along with guest…

Horiba is hosting a free webinar for vets in which Charlotte Russo FdSc RVN Dip AVN NCert Transfusion Med will discuss blood transfusions in dogs and cats, on Thursday 26th September, 7.30pm - 9.00pm.

Charlotte will share practical advice on achieving successful…

Applications are now open for the BSAVA’s Clinical Abstracts programme for 2025.

The Clinical Abstracts provide an opportunity to present new research to the wider veterinary community at Congress and Expo 2025, taking place at Manchester Central…

Will Balhatchet MRCVS from The George Farm Vets in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, has been named as Virbac's Young Dairy Vet of The Year.

Nominated by a colleague, Will graduated and joined the practice in 2021, having previously worked as a dairy herdsperson…

Ceva Animal Health is hosting a free two-hour canine cardiology webinar about myxomatous mitral valve disease (MMVD) on Thursday 14th November 2024 at 7:00pm.

The webinar will cover the entire disease process of MMVD in dogs from pathology to current treatment…

The RCVS is inviting nominations for its 2025 Honours & Awards, to recognise veterinary surgeons, veterinary nurses and laypeople, both in the UK and overseas, who are doing their utmost for animal health and welfare, the professions and society at large…

The British Small Animal Veterinary Association has opened nominations for its 2025 awards.

The award categories are:

• The Bourgelat Award - For outstanding international contribution to small animal practice or science in their widest context.
• The Simon…

Molly Varga Smith, an RCVS recognised Specialist in Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, will be presenting a talk about the emergency and critical care of rabbits and rodents at the London Vet Show on November 14^th.

The talk, which is sponsored by Supreme Petfoods…

Hill's Pet Nutrition has announced that its free online symposium will this year focus on the relationship between the gut microbiome and other organs of the body. 

This year's event, titled “Nourish the Gut, Nurture the Future,” will have talks…

Animal Aspirations, a national student-led organisation dedicated to improving ethnic and socioeconomic diversity within animal-related careers, celebrated its fifth birthday this week.

The group was set up in 2019 by veterinary students Stephanie Stapleton…

David Charles MRCVS has been named BVA Young Vet of the Year 2024. 

David, who graduated at Bristol in 2019, worked in mixed practice before joining Scarsdale Vets’ farm animal team early in 2020, where he developed a passion for small ruminant work and…

The RCVS Mind Matters Initiative is inviting mental health researchers from around the world to share their research by submitting abstracts for its 2025 veterinary mental health research symposium. 

The symposium aims to promote effective knowledge exchange…

Chris Linney and Fabio Sarcinella, the heads of cardiology at Linnaeus-owned Paragon and Willows have made veterinary history by performing the first ever interventional cardiology procedures on pets in the United Arab Emirates.

The pair were invited…

Dechra is holding ‘Preventive strategies for strangles: linking research to action’, a free one-hour webinar to help veterinary professionals translate the latest equine strangles surveillance data and research into everyday veterinary practice, at 7:00pm…

VetLed, the group of vets, nurses and other professionals who provide human factors training for veterinary teams, has announced the speaker programme for its 2025 conference, being held online on the 28th February.

The theme for the 2025 conference is how…

The British Veterinary Association and VDS Training are hosting 'Building Great Workplaces: Practical Tips for Veterinary Teams', a free series of webinars for veterinary professionals, starting on 29th January at 1pm.

Great Workplaces by BVA is…

The BSAVA has announced the return of its 'Big Issues' module at Congress this year, and the first subject up for discussion on Thursday 20th March at Manchester Central is that of veterinary costs and 'contextual care'.

Veterinary advice…

Ceva Animal Health, maker of Adaptil and Feliway, is holding Pet Anxiety Month this month.

The company has prepared practice marketing materials to support the campaign to educate pet owners on the signs of anxiety in cats and dogs, which are available…

The RCVS has announced a number of sessions it will be running at BSAVA Congress this year, including one in which it will share its take on what the profession can expect from the CMA review.

The sessions are:

• Thursday 20 March - VN Vision workshop…