May 2024

Officials hope the film, which has been unveiled today (1 May) at the start of the annual Veterinary Nursing Awareness Month campaign, will show pet owners the range of the nursing role in practice.

4 mins

April 2024

More vets voted in this year’s polls than in each of the past two years, though turnout still equated to less than one in five of the electorate.

5 mins

The Celia Hammond Animal Trust is looking for professionals to offer help for one if its regular events in London.

4 mins

College of Animal Welfare now offering access to software that simulates various scenarios covering both small animal and equine tasks used in OSCE examinations. 

5 mins

Overall theme covering appropriate and proportionate care being tailored to needs of animals and clients will run through each stream at the event in Birmingham.

6 mins

With compulsory microchipping of cats in England coming in from 10 June, Identi has created resources including literature and videos to inform clients.

3 mins

Less than 24 hours remain for vets and nurses to choose who they want to join the RCVS Council and VN Council this summer.

3 mins

A veterinary nurse who went to prison before joining the RCVS register will face no further action, after a committee found additional sanctions would be “superfluous”.

7 mins

The new course has opened for enrolment on the annual Earth Day.

3 mins

Practising and student nurses are being urged to enter a new chapter of the VN Futures project, which will begin with the first of three workshops in Northern Ireland next month.

9 mins

Sector being urged to support the annual Veterinary Nursing Awareness Month, which celebrates 20 years this May.

6 mins

A joint response by the BVA, the BSAVA, the BVNA, SPVS and the VMG has been published after a consultation on plans for a full market investigation ended yesterday (11 April).

6 mins

Vetlife’s new impact report has been released in which its president says he thinks the current need for its services is higher “than at any time in its history”.

5 mins

Consultation on pathway project imminent, but Sue Paterson told BSAVA Congress delegates initial focus groups highlighted significant “inequalities” in access.

9 mins

Places are now available for the new programme, which is due to begin this autumn.

3 mins

Seventeen candidates are in the running for seats on the college’s council and VN council, with voting remaining open throughout most of April.

9 mins

An RCVS disciplinary committee has concluded a veterinary nurse who admitted being in charge of a dog that fatally attacked her infant daughter should not be deemed unfit to practise as a result of the tragedy.

9 mins

Recent cases have raised questions about the procedures through which some professionals were granted anonymity in both their hearings and the documents published from them.

10 mins

Panel of “world-leading experts” will present guidance ahead of WSAVA’s first breeding control direction.

3 mins

March 2024

A VN has been granted anonymity by a disciplinary panel despite her admission that she implied she was a vet and made a series of offensive remarks towards minority groups.

6 mins