Veterinary News Headlines

    Vets Now publishes emergency guidelines for owners

    Vets Now has produced a new set of guidelines for pet owners about how to deal with the top 10 emergency situations seen by the out-of-hours care provider. The guidelines are presented as an infographic - which is free to download from the Vets Now...

    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...

    RCVS reveals new five-year strategic plan

    The RCVS has published its 2025-2029 strategic plan, which lays out how the College will work with and for stakeholder groups. Underlying the strategic plan are what the College says are its four updated values of compassion, collaboration, clarity...

    Petplan launches world's largest circulation pet magazine

    Petplan has launched PetPeople, billed as the largest circulation pet focussed customer magazine. In the first issue, animal behaviourist and QVN Vicky Hall looks at the relationship between women and their cats, and suggests that overbearing relationships...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    Vets Now Ltd reaches Scottish final of £35 million entrepreneur challenge

    Vets Now Limited , the out-of-hours emergency care provider, has been announced as a finalist in the Scottish region of the Bank of Scotland Corporate £35 Million Entrepreneur Challenge. The company will now compete with four other businesses to secure...

    New expert recommendations for anaesthesia available

    As part of its ongoing "Excellence in veterinary anaesthesia" initiative, and following the launch of Alfaxan, Vetoquinol has published a summary of the latest expert recommendations concerning anaesthesia in cats and dogs in a new document: ...

    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...

    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...

    Bookings open for Vets Now ECC congress

    Vets Now has opened the bookings for the UK’s for its emergency and critical care congress, which will take place online from 3rd to the 6th November 2021. 2021’s event will see over 70 hours of CPD across eight themes, with speakers including Megan...

    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

    Two new guides to equine MRI, free for vets

    Two guides for equine veterinarians have just been produced by Hallmarq Veterinary Imaging covering the role of MRI in diagnosing lameness. MRI Cases in the Standing Sedated Horse looks at fourteen cases from seven clinics in the Hallmarq user...

    CPC opens new farewell suite for bereaved pet owners

    CPC, the pet crematorium has opened a new facility for bereaved owners who wish to make their final farewell to a much loved pet in person. The farewell suite forms part of CPC's extended premises on the A505 just south of Cambridge at Thriplow Heath...

    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...

    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...

    Rose Tallon shares her top picks for BEVA Congress

    BEVA Congress committee Chair Rose Tallon has shared her top picks for this year's event, running from the 10th-13th September at the ICC Birmingham. Super early bird tickets are available till 28th May. Rose’s programme recommendations are: ...

    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...

    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...

    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...

    BVA welcomes dog breeding report

    The BVA has welcomed an update report on dog breeding issues by the Associate Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare (APGAW). Working with a small group of stakeholders including the British Veterinary Association, Dogs Trust, Kennel Club and RSPCA...

    Vetlife invites vets to take the plunge

    Vetlife is inviting veterinary surgeons to come and take part in a sponsored cold water dip at Walpole Bay Tidal Pool, Margate, at 12:30pm on Friday, May 17th. The Walpole Bay Tidal Pool is the biggest in the UK, covering four acres. Everyone taking...

    Linnaeus cardiologists make veterinary history in the UAE

    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...

    25% off Grahame Gardner scrubs till end Feb

    Grahame Gardner is offering a 25% discount across many of its scrubwear ranges till the end of February 2013, including the Urbane Scrubs collection, the unisex Easiephit range and the Scrubzone brand. For further information, visit www.grahamegardner...