Claire McCabe named vet of the year, Pet Blood Bank’s Helen Rooney wins vet nurse of the year and Milfeddygon Williams Vets in Gwynedd is vet practice of the year at annual awards.

SPVS salary survey reveals veterinary surgeons working in the capital enjoyed 47% pay rises last year – compared with 9% for the rest of the country – and that men still earn 22% more than women.  

The 2023 event is the organisation’s 50th annual congress and will take place at Telford International Centre from 6 to 8 October.

Charity says new recruits are urgently needed after calls for financial assistance soared last year.

New position statement from the British Veterinary Zoological Society recommends that cheek tooth burring or rasping should only be performed under suitable anaesthesia, or adequate deep sedation.

Vets and VNs have one month to cast their ballots in the annual polls.

Full RCVS accreditation was awarded to the level 3 programme following auditing activity last month.

Contribution will be presented during the Cornwall Veterinary Association’s annual CPD day next month.

Places are still available for the latest in the BVA’s series of lunchtime sessions, which aim to help address the veterinary sector’s workforce pressures.

Nursing body says bid to define role should have involved stakeholders “to provide a single definition that encompasses the wide and diverse range of knowledge and skills that veterinary nurses have”.

Wear Referrals, Southfields Veterinary Specialists and Willows Veterinary Centre are now accredited by the College of Animal Welfare to run in-depth training for SVNs.

Professionals who have gone above and beyond will be recognised at awards ceremony in Manchester later this month  (23 March).

Fourteen bursaries have been awarded through a VetPartners programme, while applications have also opened for a new round of £80,000 EMS bursary grants from Vets4Pets.

Nurse is veterinary technician specialist (VTS) in two fields – oncology and small animal internal medicine – and just one of two veterinary nurses in the UK with double VTS status.

Officials have described the measure as “very modest” after its approval by the Privy Council.

RCVS VN council members agreed the new definition at its February meeting for the purpose of providing clarity to professions and public.

Georgia Gray is completing research on the confidence levels of veterinary nurses when dealing with such patients.

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.