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    Improve International and Central CPD merge

    Improve Veterinary Education and Central CPD have merged. The merger brings together Improve International’s global reach and postgraduate qualification programmes with Central CPD’s practitioner-led Continuing Professional Development training and...

    NEWSFLASH: Petplan Vet Awards on primetime TV - from TONIGHT!

    Winners of the 2008 Petplan Veterinary Awards, which recognise and applaud staff and practices for their outstanding excellence and service, will feature on Natasha Kaplinsky’s Channel Five news slot from tonight at 5:00pm, and then again at 7:00pm....

    BVA criticises badger vaccine project conclusions

    The British Veterinary Association has criticised the conclusions drawn by the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust in its report on badger vaccine deployment. The report considers the effectiveness of the Trust's programme of deploying the injectable BadgerBCG...

    New feline vaccination guide from Merial

    Merial has published Give Them Just What they Need , a guide to the key considerations concerning the vaccination of cats. The company says it produced the guide after conducting research in which 76% of small animal veterinary surgeons said they...

    Probiotic use use limited by a lack of dog owner awareness

    Vita Animal Health has shared the results of a survey it commissioned which has found that 68% of dog owners either ‘don’t know’ or are ‘not sure’ about how pre and probiotics can support gastrointestinal upset. In the online survey of 392 dog owners...

    Avian influenza - final epidemiology report published

    Defra has published a final epidemiology report into the Avian Influenza outbreak confirmed in Oxfordshire on 4 June. The report concludes that at the time of writing (2 July) infection was confined to a single premise, and there is no evidence of...

    Kennel Club launches Genetics Centre at the Animal Health Trust

    The Kennel Club has launched the Genetics Centre at the Animal Health Trust (AHT) to accelerate research into inherited canine disease. It aims to create further diagnostic tests which, together with breeding advice, will improve the health and welfare...

    Cumbrian vet wins Britain in Bloom award

    Paragon Veterinary Group has become the first winner of the Royal Horticultural Society’s new national Sustainable Gardening Award, for the wellbeing gardens it created at its surgeries in Dalston and Newbiggin. Paragon’s gardens feature bee and insect...

    Nominations sought for RCVS and VN Council elections

    The RCVS is inviting nominations from veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses who are eligible to stand for RCVS Council and Veterinary Nurses (VN) Council, respectively, in next year’s elections. The College says next year’s elections will not...

    Report on the welfare implications of castration and tail docking for lambs

    The Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) has launched its "Report on the implications of castration and tail docking for the welfare of lambs". The report considers the implications of castration and tail docking for the welfare of lambs and......

    VetSurgeon.org sets new records as community grows

    VetSurgeon.org has been setting new records for the amount of activity recorded on the site. Membership of the community has grown from 1,832 in April, to 3,524 today. On December 2nd, there were 810 visits to the website, the largest number of visits...

    Vets asked to take part in Big Pain Survey

    Zero Pain Philosophy, the initiative set up by Matt Gurney and Carl Bradbrook to improve pain management in veterinary patients, is asking vets to complete its second annual Big Pain Survey. The Big Pain Survey is designed to identifying opportunities...

    Intensive Respiratory Centre to breathe new life into critically ill animals

    The Royal Veterinary College has established the Nestlé Purina RVC Intensive Respiratory Centre to provide advanced critical care for patients with severe respiratory diseases. The Centre will offer small animals the UK’s most advanced level of respiratory...

    Vets are urged to reassess the approach to neonatal calf diarrhoea

    MSD Animal Health is urging vets to reassess their approach to managing neonatal calf diarrhoea, following new evidence showing a rise in resistance to paromomycin. The March 2025 Cattle Highlights Report from the Royal GD in the Netherlands has revealed...

    New easy-to-use caps on Marbocyl 10%

    Vetoquinol is introducing new flip-off plastic caps on its injectable range to make the products more user-friendly. Marbocyl 10% is the first product to benefit. The new caps mean it is no longer necessary to have the aluminium caps which were...

    NOAH launches pethealthinfo.org.uk

    The National Office of Animal Health has launched http://www.pethealthinfo.org.uk/ , a new website that bills itself as: "A 'one stop shop' featuring a wealth of animal health information and advice to help owners and potential owners to make decisions...

    Vets asked to help shape new online antibiotic decision-making tool

    The BSAVA and the Small Animal Medicine Society (SAMSoc) are asking for feedback from vets in practice about their new tool to support and streamline the decision-making process around infectious disease. The aim of the tool is to enhance the confidence...

    Dwindling vet influence threatens food safety

    A rural social scientist has argued in this week's Veterinary Record that the dwindling influence of vets in the public health arena threatens food safety in the UK. Philip Lowe, from the Centre for Rural Economy at the University of Newcastle, argues...

    Entries invited for Veterinary Business Awards

    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...

    New weight management programme for practices

    Royal Canin has announced a new Approved Weight Management Centre programme for vet practices across the UK. As part of the programme, a number of practices across the UK will receive ‘Centre of Excellence’ status for managing overweight or obese...

    New pet food course for vets

    UK Pet Food has launched the Pet Food & Nutrition Course for Veterinary Professionals which will be hosted by The Webinar Vet and runs from the 6th October to the 4th December 2025. UK Pet Food says that with pet owners increasingly turning to their...

    ProReward launches new treat varieties

    Petproject is updating its ProReward 100% Liver treats and have added three new varieties to the range, a low fat 100% Chicken, hypoallergenic 100% Venison and 100% Icelandic Cod which is high in Omega-3 fatty acids. Petproject says that after speaking...

    Julia Lee named Young Farm Vet of the Year 2025

    Hui Pin (Julia) Lee, associate vet at Crowshall Veterinary Services, Attleborough, Norfolk, has been named Zoetis Young Farm Vet of the Year 2025. Julia, who came to the UK in 2016, graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 2021. She then completed...

    Bluetongue vaccination roll out plan published

    The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has today released details of the strategy for rolling out vaccination across England. Under EU law, vaccination can only be carried out in a Protection Zone. As vaccine starts to...

    Registration and retention fees frozen for 2012

    The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Council and the Veterinary Nursing Council have decided that there will be no increase in registration and retention fees for veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses for 2012. Last year, the Councils decided...