The BVA has unveiled its programme for BVA Live 2026, with sessions aimed at helping veterinary teams prepare for the reforms being introduced by the Competition and Markets Authority, at the NEC in Birmingham on 11-12 June.

Among the programme highlights…

BVA Congress 2008 will combine both political and CPD sessions under the theme ‘Vets in a changing environment’. Building on last year’s BVA Congress in Belfast, hailed by many delegates as ‘the best Congress for many years,’ Congress 2008 aims…

Harvey Locke has been elected President of the British Veterinary Association, and Carl Padgett its President-Elect for 2010/2011. The ceremony took place during the Annual General Meeting of the BVA at the close of its Annual Congress, held in Glasgow…

The British Veterinary Association is calling on its members to consider standing in the upcoming elections for the organisation's primary representative body, BVA Council.

According to the association, there has been overwhelming support for…

The British Veterinary Association is delighted to announce the election of new chairmen for two of its standing committees.

Fred Landeg is the new chairman of the Veterinary Policy Group (VPG) and James Yeates is the new chairman of the Ethics and…

The British Veterinary Association has announced that it has almost halved the cost of attending its annual Congress this September.

According to the BVA, the decision was made to demonstrate its commitment to providing high-quality, affordable CPD…

The BVA has announced that from 2013, its annual Congress will take place at the London Vet Show.

The association says that the move is being done to bring together political debate and clinical CPD on a large scale and to ensure that the BVA can…

Peter Harlech Jones has been elected President of the British Veterinary Association for 2012/2013. The ceremony took place during the Annual General Meeting of the BVA at the close of its Annual Congress, held in the Merseyside Maritime Museum in…

The British Veterinary Association is asking members to put themselves forward as candidates in the upcoming elections for BVA Council.

In eight of the 12 regions BVA is seeking regional representatives who are willing to gather and represent the views…

The BVA has paid tribute to Lord Ballyedmond, founder of the veterinary pharmaceutical company Norbrook Laboratories, after he was killed in a helicopter crash in Norfolk last Thursday.

The life peer (pictured second from left collecting a business award…

To mark World Rabies Day (28 September) the BVA has announced that it is joining the global End Rabies Now campaign that aims to end the tens of thousands of human deaths each year from canine-mediated rabies by 2030.

Almost all rabies cases are as a…

The British Veterinary Association has launched its second annual photography competition and is inviting members to submit entries in the run up to World Photography Day on August 19.

The inaugural BVA Photography Competition received more than 400…

The BVA has announced that Ben Goldacre, the best-selling author, broadcaster, campaigner and medical doctor who topped the paperback non-fiction charts with Bad Science, will deliver the 50^th anniversary Wooldridge Memorial Lecture at this year’s London…

Veterinary surgeons Mandy Knight and Jen Rowland have won the BVA's second annual photography competition, out of almost 500 entries from across the UK.

Mandy, an Australian-born small animal vet, won in the 'You and Your Work' category with her…

Nominations for the President of the British Veterinary Association for 2019/20 are now open and will run until 15 January 2018, with all veterinary surgeons invited to self-nominate or nominate a fellow BVA member with their consent.

The BVA officer…

The British Veterinary Association has opened Through the eyes of vets, an exhibition in the House of Commons of the diverse work carried out by veterinary surgeons, depicted in a series of photographs by its members.

The exhibition comprises 22 photographs…

The British Veterinary Association is inviting vets to enter its third ‘BVA Veterinary photographer of the year’ competition.

Last year’s competition saw photographs span a range of subjects from across the UK and overseas, from a common…

Peter Myatt and Stephen Ashman MsRCVS have won the BVA's third annual BVA Veterinary Photographer of the Year competition, fighting off competition from over 500 other entries.

Stephen, who works for the PDSA, wowed the judges with his photograph…

Jennifer Dykes, a small animal, Nottinghamshire based veterinary surgeon, has won first prize in the 'All creatures great and small' category of the BVA Veterinary Photographer of the Year competition.

This year's competition saw over 400 applications…

The BVA is seeking nominations for seven new regional representatives for the North-East, Yorkshire & Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, London, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Representatives from all sectors of the veterinary profession are encouraged…

BVA President Daniella Dos Santos is hosting a COVID-19 webinar for all members of the practice team at noon tomorrow (Sunday 22nd March). 

The aim of the webinar is to help bring everyone together to support one another and review how the profession can…

The British Veterinary Association has announced it will host BVA Live, a new conference and commercial exhibition for the profession at the NEC in Birmingham on 24-25th June 2021. 

The BVA has partnered with Closer Still Media, the impresarios behind …

Exotic animal vet and star of CBBC’s ‘The Pets Factor’, Fabian Rivers has won the BVA Young Vet of the Year Award 2020.

The award, which is sponsored by Zoetis, is for early-career vets who have gone above and beyond the usual call of…

The BVA has launched the 2021 BVA Veterinary Photographer of the Year Award and is calling on members with a creative eye to capture images of their daily work, of companion animals or of wildlife.

In 2019, Jennifer Dykes won the ‘All creatures great and…

Internationally acclaimed wildlife photojournalist Aaron Gekoski has been named as the fifth judge on the panel for the 2021 British Veterinary Association Veterinary Photographer of the Year Award.

An environmental photojournalist, Mr Gekoski has won various…