Demonstration videos, video teaching sessions and case support are among the services being offered to help vets care for some of their more unusual patients.

One of the UK’s biggest livestock practices has teamed up with a national charity to promote countryside access for children.

Most farmers are willing to learn, but don’t know where they can access courses, a study has suggested.

Vets in the north-east have received some practical insights into how to tackle some of the biggest marine animal emergencies.

The first of a new series of in-person and virtual sessions to grill senior RCVS figures will be launched in Glasgow in September.

A vet who completed a 1,300-mile ride from John o’ Groats to Land’s End has already raised three times her initial target for charity – and her travelling days may not be over yet.

A South Yorkshire family cut short their holiday after their 13-month-old German short-haired pointer developed a particularly severe case of the infection.

Professionals with specific knowledge of veterinary nursing, career development, marketing, HR and financial issues are being urged to come forward.

British Veterinary Union chairperson Suzanna Hudson-Cooke said recent pay increases in the sector were inadequate and revealed members were already reporting staff giving up their jobs because of rising costs.

Scientists at the University of Bristol said they hope their research will help raise wider public awareness of the risks associated with the dietary programme.

An RSPCA veterinary nurse who took on the care of a bulldog that has to sleep with its head on a pillow to help it breathe is leading a new plea to guide the public away from extreme breeds.

Government officials say they are “concerned” by the growth of new clinics and could change the law, but a charity fears reform proposed by the RCVS would not go far enough.

A scientist who is set to receive a global award for his work in small animal medicine says his career has been “a journey as rich as anyone could wish for”.

The company has continued its European growth with the acquisition of its first practice in Ireland and says it expects more to follow soon.

Guillaume Leblond and his team at North Downs Specialist Referrals have found that using the dorsal atlantoaxial stabilisation technique when performing spinal surgery can likely reduce complications.

MP and vet Neil Hudson warns a lack of funding to redevelop the Weybridge base could risk "devastating" consequences from future outbreaks.

The BCVA and Cattle Hoof Care Standards Board expect to start delivering new courses later this year.

Reforms to the charity’s rules will also enable veterinary nurses to access financial support and put themselves forward to be trustees.

The current senior Carlsberg executive will swap one of the world’s best known beers for the veterinary care providers when he moves to his new role at the start of next year.

Work in antimicrobial stewardship and canine cruciate surgery will be recognised with the newly announced accolades.

“Lucy and Rosanna are our first proper abattoir OVs that have come in from a UK vet school and I’m really, really delighted with that” – Charles Hartwell, Eville and Jones chief executive.

Professionals have until mid-September to have their say on the revised guidance after it was backed by councillors earlier this month.

An Irish practice has urged owners to be vigilant after reporting several cases of the disease.

One of the authors of a paper that argued the controversial practice had no significant effect in reducing the disease says Defra is stuck in “a ridiculous scientific corner” on the issue.

An investigation has concluded officials acted reasonably and within the law in their efforts to evacuate more than 150 animals, plus dozens of staff, during the Taliban takeover last year.

A Labrador retriever that has had 14 of its puppies become guide dogs needed specialist veterinary care twice when her own sight was threatened.

The effects of long COVID are inspiring a bid to raise £10,000 by paddling 115 miles down the River Severn next month.

New consulting rooms and upgraded facilities for clients and staff are now in place at an Aberdeenshire practice following a £265k expansion programme.