The BSAVA has released the final figures showing that 6,331 veterinary surgeons, nurses, practice managers and students attended the event, up from 6,178 in 2013.
Outgoing BSAVA President Professor Michael Day was delighted that so many attended. He said: "What continues to set BSAVA Congress apart is simply 'quality'. The quality of the faultless organisation, the quality of the scientific content, and the quality of our exhibition and incomparable social programme."
A few other numbers from Congress this year included:
Sunday saw the inauguration of the new BSAVA President Katie McConnell. She said: "Like so many previous presidents, I look back on my early volunteering days with deep affection but it would have been a great surprise to my earlier self to be told that one day I would be the BSAVA President.
"During my presidential year I would like to meet as many BSAVA members as I can, hopefully in their own regions. I plan to travel to regional BSAVA continuing education meetings, not to stand up and lecture but to listen to individual members and find out what the BSAVA means to them. The BSAVA is run by members for members and the only way to shape its work is to become engaged with it."
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Thats great , but there do seem to be a lot of nursing staff clogging up the Alleyways in the NIC. With time at lunch and breaks limited, its hard to get around and shop for that new operating microscope /X-ray machine while side stepping hordes of charming pretty young women collecting freebies. Maybe it would be better to restrict their access to the NIC arena, or arrange for the collection of freebies in the main ICC and avoid all the queueing ?.
Maybe more older people would go if there was less of a dramatic price price hike for older more experienced people compared to new and recent graduates?.