Bayer has announced that Elanco Animal Health has entered into a definitive agreement to buy it's animal health business for 7.6 billion US dollars.

The divestment is expected to be concluded in mid-2020, and Bayer intends to exit its stake in Elanco…

Southfields Veterinary Specialists in Essex has been given approval by planners to convert a 40,000 sq ft site just down the road from its current premises into what will be one of the UK’s largest referral centres.

The £11m project, which is backed…

A number of veterinary leaders have claimed in this week's Vet Record that the public perception of the profession is still rooted in romanticised James Herriot fiction rather than the commercial realities of modern day practice.

The popular novels…

Warwickshire-based Avonvale Veterinary Centre has created the role of 'nurse dental champions', both to help fight against dental disease and to create a rewarding role for the latest generation of its nurses who have an interest in the subject.…

MSD Animal Health has launched VetsDeliver, a new service delivering parasite prescriptions direct from the veterinary practice to the pet owner’s home.

Through the new service, which is designed to save clients' time and improve compliance, practices…

Nestlé Purina PetCare has launched new point of sale materials for Fortiflora, its probiotic for cats and dogs.

There's a complimentary counter top unit and pillow packs to help veterinary surgeons and nurses communicate the benefits of probiotics…

VetHelpDirect has announced that due to the coronavirus outbreak, it is bringing forward the roll-out of its new platform through which veterinary surgeons can offer paid-for remote video consultations to their clients.

If, as is predicted, social distancing…

West Midlands-based Willows Veterinary Centre & Referral Service has been announced as the winner of VetHelpDirect.com's Best UK Vet Awards 2020.

The awards are based on more than 11,000 pet owner reviews submitted to VetHelpDirect.com over the…

From today and until further notice, VetNurse.co.uk and VetSurgeon.org Jobs are free of charge, so that practices which find themselves with staffing problems over the coming months can broadcast a shout for help.

When you post a job advert, or a sho…

The Animal Health Trust, the veterinary research charity which employs 257 staff at its centre near Newmarket, has announced that without an injection of funds, it will be forced to close at the end of the month. 

The charity says that it had already…

Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health has partnered with VetHelpDirect to offer all UK and Irish veterinary practices free access to an online video consultation platform for a period of three months.

By offering an alternative to face-to-face consultations…

XLVets, the cooperative of independent practices, has decided to share its resources with independent practices that are not currently members.

XLVets has called on experts in people development, legal, IT and HR, as well as its practice owners, managers…

MSD Animal Health has set up a pet owner online registration facility for its VetsDeliver service, which delivers parasiticides direct from the vet to the owner.

Designed to help veterinary practices save clients' time and improve compliance, VetsDeliver…

Agria has announced two new measures designed to help make sure pets are covered by insurance during the coronavirus pandemic.

Firstly, pets that haven’t received primary vaccinations due to the coronavirus outbreak and develop an issue that would have…

The Wiltshire headquarters of International Cat Care and the International Society of Feline Medicine were badly damaged in a fire last night. 

According to the charity, the fire broke out in an adjacent building in the early hours of the morning and caused…

Animalcare has produced a social media toolkit to help practices remind owners to comply with the new law on microchipping horses, ahead of the 1st October deadline.

James Beaumont, Product Manager at Animalcare, said: “Microchipping is an essential but simple…

The BVA is urging veterinary practices to sign up to a new, voluntary code it has created to make for a better working environment; one which is supportive and welcoming to everyone. 

The Good Veterinary Workplaces Voluntary Code sets out various criteria…

Linnaeus has announced that - subject to completion - it has acquired Pets at Home’s Specialist Division of five veterinary referral practices, which together employ almost 680 staff.

Linnaeus was founded in 2014 from Willows Veterinary Centre and…

The RCVS has completed the sale of its Westminster offices to a private investor for £14m. 

The deal includes an option for the College to lease the building for up to two years to give it time to consider its options for the future, and how they…

Herefordshire-based Alex McGhee MRCVS, a business intelligence manager at Linnaeus, has headed off to the Maldives to help save endangered sea turtles. 

Alex is applying the data science he uses in his day job to help local vets at the Olive Ridley Proje…

Vets Now has substantially increased the duration of full pay maternity leave for its staff. 

Under the new policy, introduced this month, women who joined the company more than two years ago are entitled to six month's maternity leave on full pay, while…

North Downs Specialist Referrals (NDSR), in Bletchingley, has introduced what it says is an innovative new structure for its nursing team which provides more and better career pathways, a greater importance for its nursing staff, and a better work-life…

UK Farmcare reports that more than 60 people from across the agricultural community have registered an interest in training to become an Approved Tuberculin Tester (ATT) of cattle.

The role was created last November when the Animal & Plant Health Agency…

Equine vets Kevin and Jennifer Corley have launched EquiTrace, an app which allows trainers and vets to keep track of a horse’s health and identity with a quick scan of a chip.

The app allows trainers to store and share medical records and treatment…

Animal Trust, a veterinary group with nine surgeries across Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, Cheshire and North Wales, has become the first and only practice registered as a community interest company, providing a bridge between commercial veterinary car…