Vet sets up Facebook group for vets and nurses keen to help on the front line as NHS trusts start reaching out to animal health colleagues for assistance.

Organisers of VET Festival 2020 (5 and 6 June) confirm the event will not happen this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Associations, regulators, charities and practices large and small are working more closely than ever before, while vets and VNs everywhere stand shoulder to shoulder in the face of unprecedented crisis.

Community raises more than £700 for charity during lockdown after staging networking and CPD event online.

RCVS slashes this year’s obligation by 25% for vets and vet nurses in face of COVID-19 pandemic.

Lockdown results in call for three-month deferment of all forms of practical assessment for SVNs.

New resource enables vets, nurses and receptionists to quickly identify urgent, potentially urgent, non-urgent and delayable cases.

BVA works with RCVS and other organisation to produce a traffic light system of guidance to help practices prevent spread of infection while providing emergency and urgent care.

Open letter to RCVS president calls for help with fees during unprecedented public health crisis.

Association’s president implores veterinary nurses to be “part of the solution and not the problem” as the coronavirus crisis continues.

“In the interests of safety and complying with Government advice, vet practices should only be delivering emergency treatment and urgent care, and should be cancelling routine and non-urgent appointments.”

In a statement posted on its blog, the association advises profession to make the most of online chat forums, emails and telephone calls during coronavirus crisis.

Association promises registration fee refunds actioned on a “first booked, first refunded” basis.

Firm offering customers CPD sessions as live virtual stream to help veterinary professionals keep on top of learning during COVID-19 period.

Leading veterinary infection control expert warns the profession of possible difficult choices ahead between animal welfare and disease spread.