After leaving school following A-levels, Paul Imrie became a junior reporter on the weekly paper serving his hometown of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire. He spent four years on the district and city desks of the Derby Evening Telegraph, and during this stint studied for, and achieved, the Diploma in Journalism from the now PA-owned Editorial Centre in Hastings.
Following a further four years with the Leicester Mercury, Paul joined VBD in 2004, and has been deputy editor of Veterinary Times, editor of VBJ, and editor of Veterinary Times since 2009. He has also been VBD’s editorial manager since April 2010.
Webinar is one of 16 now available as part of Wales’ Farming Connect Animal Health and Welfare programme, in conjunction with the National Animal Disease Information Service.
Independent, specialist-led ophthalmology service Focus Referrals has just celebrated one year in premises in Banbury, having initially been set up as a mobile service.
Research led by The Pirbright Institute finds variants alpha, beta and delta can infect more species, such as rodents and ferrets, compared to the ancestral virus strain.
Pet Food Manufacturers’ Association’s annual pet population data shows 12% of households relinquished a pet – and charities and shelters fear problem will get worse.
Survey finds while 75% of respondents loved helping students and offering EMS, more than 60% cited fear of introducing infection to the practice as reason for not providing it during pandemic.
Survey carried out on behalf of Vets4Pets shows one in four cat and dog owners don’t realise their pet can develop the condition, while half would not be confident spotting the early signs.
Fourth staging of British Veterinary Receptionist Association Congress to take place at Jurys Inn Hinckley Island Hotel in Leicestershire from 30 September to 1 October.
Stuart Reid CBE, president and principal of the vet school, has been granted honorary life membership of the Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine.
Federation of European Companion Animal Veterinary Associations teaming up for a full day of CPD with The Webinar Vet on 9 April to raise funds for war-torn country.
Andrea Ang, of The University of Edinburgh, won the BVBA Veterinary Studies Award 2022, with Sophie Oliver, of the University of Nottingham, the runner-up.
Jasmine Knight, a wild animal biology master’s student at the RVC, wants to collect data in an anonymous survey on profession’s attitudes to animal welfare in research animals, pets, livestock and wildlife.
British Veterinary Professionals for Ukraine, which had been coordinating the sending of medical equipment to human and vet medics, turns attention to supplying vet medicines.
Europe’s largest companion animal veterinary event was one of the first casualties of pandemic when COVID-19 struck in March 2020, but is back as a hybrid event in Manchester.
Clive Elwood, a former RCVS specialist in small animal medicine, current author and owner of Trellis Leadership Coaching, joins headlining vet Sian Tranter for the 31 March webinar.
RCVS has set up a working party, and will invite representatives of other bodies, to look at provisions to allow for a more inclusive approach to training and hiring vets and VNs.
BVA guide, which vets can use in conversations with young people considering vet school, addresses issues about grades, lack of veterinary background, work experience and applying more than once.
Link-up between Orthomed and Osso VR will bring hands-on, virtual reality training to allow veterinary surgeons to practise procedures anytime, anywhere.
Animal Health Distributors Association, which represents SQPs, will use data from its 300 animal medicines distributors and plans compulsory CPD on resistance among other ideas.
Nightly free CPD sessions were held for a week, with delegates attending from across the world and helping to raise money for UNICEF work in war-torn country.
Vetoquinol welcomes practising vets and key opinion leaders from across profession to a lunch at the East Wintergarden in Canary Wharf to officially unveil its new three-monthly feline product Felpreva.