Veterinary News Headlines

    BCF, Instrumentation Concept and Vetsonic collect VetSurgeon.org awards

    BCF, Instrumentation Concept and VetSonic have collected 'VetSurgeon.org Best Stand Awards'; the first two at BEVA Congress and the latter at BCVA Congress. Judging for the BEVA Congress awards was undertaken by members of BEVA Council. BCF picked...

    Norbrook launches android version of veterinary app

    Norbrook has launched an Android version of its existing free iPhone app: ‘the Veterinary Excellence Tool’ (VET). VET offers a range of functions to assist veterinary professionals and farmers including a product dosing calculator. The Android version...

    Last call to take part in SPVS salary survey

    The Society of Practising Veterinary Surgeons (SPVS) is putting out a last call to take part in the SPVS Salaries Survey 2015, open to everybody working in the veterinary profession. The long-standing survey provides a benchmark for veterinary surgeons...

    Equine vet reprimanded for failing to share clinical history during pre-purchase exam

    The RCVS Disciplinary Committee has reprimanded Gloucestershire veterinary surgeon Adele Lewis for failing to pass on information about a horse’s clinical history to a potential buyer during a pre-purchase examination. Ms Lewis, the sole principal...

    HM The Queen opens UK's eighth veterinary school

    Her Majesty The Queen has today opened the University of Surrey's new £45m School of Veterinary Medicine, accompanied by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh. Her Majesty and His Royal Highness toured the Large Animal Clinical Skills Building...

    RCVS seeks vet to join RCVS Fellowship Appointment Group

    The RCVS is seeking applicants for an Appointment Group which will be responsible for deciding the membership for the governing body of the new RCVS Fellowship. In June, RCVS Council approved proposals to develop a new style Fellowship to move it...

    Help needed with pseudopregnancy research

    The University of Glasgow, School of Veterinary Medicine, is calling for help with research into the prevalence of pseudopregnancy in spayed bitches. The research takes the form of a survey being conducted amongst a representative sample of veterinary...

    CVS opens new referral hospital in Hampshire

    CVS has announced the official opening of Lumbry Park Veterinary Specialists , a new small animal referral hospital in Alton, Hampshire. The hospital was officially opened last Saturday by the Town Mayor of Alton during an open day attended by local...
  • Vet needed to live in the wilderness for a year

    Production company Keo Films is on the hunt for a veterinary surgeon that wants to take a year out and help set up a new community in a remote part of the British Isles for a high profile TV documentary series. The documentary is essentially a social...

    RSA presses ahead with preferred referral network

    RSA has announced the rollout of its UK-wide network of preferred referral practices. The scheme caused widespread concern within the profession when it was trialed in the Midlands earlier this year , primarily because of fears that it would reduce...

    Shelf life extension for Virbac's cattle parasiticide Neoprinil

    Virbac has announced that its recently launched parasiticide Neoprinil has been granted a shelf life extension from one to two years after first opening. The company says the extension will help minimise the risk of wasted product and increase its...

    Unlimited, free, documented CPD for veterinary surgeons

    VetSurgeon.org has today launched 'Claim CPD', a new feature which allows members to claim time spent on the site towards the annual requirement for 35 hours documented Continuing Professional Development. The system has been designed...

    Royal Dick students collect Boehringer awards

    Boehringer Ingelheim has announced the winners of its 16th annual awards for students who have shown the best aptitude for cardiology, orthopaedics and anesthesia over the course of the entire final year. Bethan MacKenzie, Jennifer Scully, Emma Foster...
  • Davies Veterinary Specialists increases capacity

    Davies Veterinary Specialists (DVS) has announced that it has completed development work on its premises in Higham Gobion, Hertfordshire, to improve capacity and workflow for diagnostic procedures including MRI, CT and endoscopy. The new development...
  • BEVA debate suggests equine practice needs to adapt to family life

    Moral Maze, a debate held by members at the British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA) Congress earlier this month, has concluded that equine practice needs to adapt to accommodate family life. 92% of voters agreed with the motion: Equine practice...

    Hysolv offers free swine flu diagnostic test to vets

    Hysolv Animal Health has announced that it is offering a free swine flu laboratory diagnostic service to veterinary surgeons in the UK and Ireland. The company will supply kits to veterinary surgeons with which to take samples from pig herds they...
  • VetSurgeon.org ranked first by independent research

    Independent research carried out by CM Research amongst practising companion animal veterinary surgeons has placed VetSurgeon.org in the top 5 veterinary media publications, and the leading online destination by a considerable margin. ...

    New educational videos about antimicrobials for vets

    Bayer Animal Health has announced the launch of three new educational videos which look at some common concerns in the profession about antimicrobials, including owner compliance, laboratory testing, and prescribing policies in different clinical scenarios...

    Mycoplasma bovis threat to cattle increasing

    Zoetis has released new surveillance results which show that Mycoplasma bovis is becoming an increasingly significant pneumonia pathogen in cattle 1 . In more than 2,500 samples submitted by vets for analysis during 2014, 45% were positive, compared...

    Prinovox, Loxicom, Vectra Felis and Zodon pick up Easy to Give awards

    International Cat Care has announced the winners of four new ‘Easy to Give’ awards and three ‘Cat Friendly’ awards. The Easy to Give award was created to reward pharmaceutical companies whose products are easy to administer to cats. Previous examples...
  • Two vets suspended for lying about fatal operation

    The RCVS Disciplinary Committee has suspended two veterinary surgeons from the Register after finding them guilty of lying to clients and the College about the circumstances of a castration procedure which led to the death of a dog. The Committee...

    Veterinary loan company starts national marketing campaign

    CarefreeCredit , the loan company set up by Somerset vet Stewart Halperin so that practices can offer their clients interest free loans to cover emergency veterinary treatment, has embarked on a national PR campaign to raise awareness amongst pet owners...

    Ceva launches new liver supplement for cats and dogs

    Ceva Animal Health has launched Hepaticare, a new liver support supplement for cats and dogs. The company says Hepaticare contains the same high quality ingredients as Hepatosyl, but is now enhanced with micro-encapsulated SAMe to enhance product...

    Propoflo Plus back in stock

    Zoetis has announced that PropoFlo Plus is now back in stock following a huge surge in demand caused by supply issues with a competitor propofol. Licensed for use in dogs and cats, PropoFlo Plus is an anaesthetic injection for the induction and maintenance...

    6,700 veterinary surgeons asked to submit their CPD records

    The RCVS has asked 6,700 veterinary surgeons to submit their CPD records for 2012-2014 as part of its second annual CPD audit. The news came at more or less the same time that VetSurgeon.org announced that it is developing a new feature to make it...