Veterinary News Headlines
  • Two new antibiotics for responsible use in cats and dogs

    Dechra Veterinary Products has launched two new antibiotics with a new tablet technology designed to encourage more responsible use of antibiotics in practice. Metrobactin is the first veterinary licensed metronidazole tablet for the treatment of...
  • BVA: Brexit will have significant impact on the profession

    The BVA has issued a statement about the impact of Brexit on the veterinary profession. BVA President Sean Wensley said: "The UK's decision to leave the European Union will have a significant impact on matters of interest to the veterinary profession...
  • TV vet bemoans decline in young vets applying for work in mixed practice

    Talking to The Daily Telegraph last week , Julian Norton MRCVS from the Skeldale Veterinary Centre - who stars in The Yorkshire Vet - has bemoaned a decline in applicants for jobs in rural mixed practice. Julian said: "People are turning to surgeries...
  • Virbac launches enrofloxacin for exotics

    Virbac has announced the launch of Enrobactin, an oral antibiotic for exotic species, including pet rabbits, rodents, ornamental birds and reptiles. Enrobactin contains enrofloxacin but is uniquely available in 10ml bottles for convenient dispensing...
  • Choose alternative medicine and die early

    A new study carried out by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center , published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute , has found that human cancer patients who use alternative medicine are up to 5.7 times more likely...
  • VetSurgeon.org wins 'Standard of Excellence' award

    VetSurgeon.org has won a Standard of Excellence Award in the 2017 Web Marketing Association's WebAwards . Entries to the international awards came from 52 countries around the world. Each was assessed by three judges from a panel of industry leaders...
  • New guide to starting out as a vet

    Yorkshire-based Clare Tapsfield-Wright MRCVS has written The New Vet's Handbook, a lighthearted guide to help newly qualified veterinary surgeons as they leave uni and enter the profession. Finding and settling into that first job is a particularly...
  • Thank you

    VetSurgeon.org has introduced Reactions, a simple yet powerful new feature which should make online sharing of veterinary knowledge, ideas, advice, photographs and videos, a far more rewarding and enjoyable experience. VetSurgeon Reactions now gives...
  • The remote prescription debate that could redefine what it means to be a vet

    A motion to conduct a trial of remote prescribing without performing a physical examination (ie. via telemedicine), thereby redefining what it means for an animal to be "under the care" of a veterinary surgeon, was put before RCVS Council last week....
  • Female vets ARE discriminated against

    The BVA has published the interim results of a new study which seems to provide the best evidence yet that the veterinary profession still discriminates against female veterinary surgeons. The study also found that those who believe that gender discrimination...
  • New book to help people avoid inherited diseases in pedigree dogs

    Emma Milne MRCVS, the erstwhile TV vet turned author and welfare campaigner has published Picking a Pedigree? a new book written to help people buy healthy cats and dogs and avoid the health problems and associated veterinary bills associated with certain...
  • And the towns with most vets are ...

    Some interesting research from the Daily Express today, which shows which UK towns and cities have the most veterinary practices per capita. You could otherwise call them "Britain's Best Places to Get Ill (if you are a dog)", or alternatively "Britain...
  • World officially mad as vets complain about student vets handling sheep for charitable calendar

    The Royal Veterinary College Principal, Stuart Reid has become embroiled in a row over its students' annual charity calendar, after a veterinary vegan group complained about the month that showed veterinary students handling sheep. The photograph...
  • Coronavirus: Veterinary video consultation service rolled out early

    VetHelpDirect has announced that due to the coronavirus outbreak, it is bringing forward the roll-out of its new platform through which veterinary surgeons can offer paid-for remote video consultations to their clients. If, as is predicted, social...
  • RCVS investigation fails to identify mole on Council

    The RCVS has confirmed that it commissioned an independent investigation earlier this year which has failed to discover who leaked information contained in confidential Council papers. The College first became aware that confidential information had...
  • Vets invited to online meeting: "IR35 and its Impact on Locums"

    VetSurgeon.org and VetNurse.co.uk are hosting an online Zoom meeting open to all members of the profession, where Simon Biles, an accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser from Moore Scarrott, will explain and discuss the effect of recent IR35 changes on...
  • Study finds vets not complying with Epilepsy Task Force recommendations

    A new study, published in the Journal of Small Animal Practice (JSAP) , has revealed that veterinary surgeons only prescribe anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) after a seizure cluster in 44% of cases, despite International Veterinary Epilepsy Task Force recommendations...
  • Veterinary medicine specialists step forward to help colleagues in general practice

    Some leading lights in the world of small animal medicine have signed up to help colleagues in general practice, by answering questions posted in the VetSurgeon.org Community. Kate Murphy and Mellora Sharman from VetCT , Mayank Seth and Rachel Miller...
  • RCVS launches new course to help vets recognise and challenge unconscious bias

    The RCVS Academy has launched a new course to help veterinary professionals recognise and challenge unconscious bias. The course was developed with RCVS Leadership and Inclusion Manager, Gurpreet Gill (pictured), and aims to increase self-awareness...
  • HeartVets becomes first referral practice to become an Employee Owned Trust

    HeartVets, the UK’s largest cardiology referral practice has become an Employee Owned Trust (EOT). The practice, which has nine clinicians (including three RCVS Recognised Specialists), eleven RVNs, two human-trained cardiac physiologists and a dedicated...
  • New RCVS guide to help vets navigate the 2024 Veterinary Medicines Regulations

    The RCVS has published a short guide to help veterinary professionals understand, interpret and act upon some of the significant changes to the Veterinary Medicines Regulations that were introduced earlier this year by the Veterinary Medicines Directorate...
  • SPVS provides advice on prescription fees

    The Society of Practising Veterinary Surgeons (SPVS) has published advice to help practitioners set realistic and reasonable script fees for POM-V medicines. The document, which is now available to all practitioners via the SPVS web site ( www.spvs...
  • Vetstream granted CVA under Insolvency Act

    According to this month's Veterinary Practice magazine, Vetstream Ltd., the erstwhile publisher of Veterinary Review, has been granted a Company Voluntary Arrangement under the Insolvency Act 1986. VP reports that the CVA is an alternative to liquidation...
  • Free new veterinary medicines guide from BSAVA

    The BSAVA has announced the launch of a free new online publication: BSAVA Guide to the Use of Veterinary Medicines Edited by Fred Nind and Pam Mosedale, with contributions from experts in the field, has been developed to provide a comprehensive guide...
  • You Gov poll of pet owners shows recession biting

    A You Gov poll commissioned by Intervet/Schering Plough in the run up to National Vaccination Month (1st-30th June) shows the degree to which the recession is now biting into veterinary spending, and the impact it's having on vaccination levels. The...