https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/non-clinical-questions/7711/vmd---article-in-todays-telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/budget/8376957/Budget-2011-Red-Tape-Britain-Vet-agency-takes-a-large-cut-from-company.html RED TAPE BRITAIN - email examples of needless bureaucracy to red tape@telegraph.co.uk en-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/34576?ContentTypeID=1Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:56:55 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:44006572-db3f-4b26-997a-f293f41ba6deLaurence Webb<p>Don&#39;t forget the &pound;30 odd that the requesting vet should pay to the VMD for a new STC for each immunotherapy treatment.</p> <p> I don&#39;t know how many of those were needed, but if you estimate that the average cost of lab fees + immunotherapy was &pound;200 per case (off the top of my head so feel to shoot my numbers down) that&#39;s 150 cases per year generating an extra &pound;4500 for the VMD in STC fees. Add that to the &pound;1745 inspection fee and &pound;1745 authorisation fee (what ever that is) and the VMD could be generating &pound;7990 a year from this lab&#39;s &pound;30000 turnover.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>