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 VBDâs editorial manager since April 2010.
Davies Veterinary Specialists â owned by Linnaeus and part of the Mars family â to take part in recycling project that aims to collect plastic packaging to be turned into pet-related items.
Following a 10-year review, vet school is commended for upholding high recruitment standards and practices, and providing CPD opportunities to its researchers.
Boehringer Ingelheim held steady with global animal health sales of âŹ4.6 billion (ÂŁ4 billion) in 2022, but invested âŹ464 million (ÂŁ408 million) in R&D and says it has 20 new products in the pipeline.
Depictions on social media â for example of badger baiting â harm vulnerable adults and children, as well as the animals, and should feature in Governmentâs Online Safety Bill, say campaigners.
Angie Lloyd-Jones is one of the driving forces behind the Small Animal Veterinary Guidelines for Professional Ultrasound Practice, published by The British Medical Ultrasound Society.
Hambleton Equine Clinic is the first vet practice yard to be accredited under Yard Excellence Scheme, part of the wider Keeping Britainâs Horses Healthy campaign.
Basildon-based, ÂŁ16 million referral centre receives International Society of Feline Medicineâs highest accolade for efforts including a âCat Landâ within the hospital.
Schoolâs Queen Mother Hospital for Animals is marking 10 years of providing extracorporeal therapies for cats and dogs with kidney failure, immune-mediated disease and certain toxicities.
In a statement on âunder careâ, society is committed to working with the BVA and RCVS â but insists remote prescribing was safest under a vet-client-patient relationship framework.
Dogs Trust-funded work, led by vet school and the School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience at University of Bristol, will look at how dogs respond to pheromones when left alone.
Chris Shales, an RCVS fellow, is keen to introduce a range of treatment innovations as part of his role of clinical director at West Midlands-based referral centre.
In a poll of thousands of pet owners in the UK and across Europe, 34% of dog owners and 43% of cat owners put clinical signs of OA down to their pets getting older.
The service â âOccurrence of parasite-associated infectionsâ â is based on data collected by German laboratories, but it is hoped it will soon feature data collated from across Europe.
The Cardiff Cat Clinic, the only feline-exclusive practice in Wales, had long hoped to provide the service â not only for its own clients, but others facing waits across the country.
Nicola Bromley, who has more than 20 yearsâ experience as a vet and experienced leader, joins the management team from previous role as clinical director at a multi-site vet hospital in West Sussex.
The group will offer up to eight weeksâ full pay in exceptional health event circumstances, and changes will also apply to major surgery as part of a gender transition in âveterinary industry firstâ.
Researchers are launching a study to determine and benchmark individual and herd-level passive transfer status across herds, with aim of providing largest information to date.
Like-for-like sales growth in six months to 31 December 2022 is up by 7.5%, with six practice acquisitions and a new site in Southport opening in the same period.