Vets4Pets has launched Project Listen, a survey to find out what challenges, motivations and experiences veterinary nurses face every day, and what the company might to do lead positive change in the sector. 

The findings will be published in a freely-available…

Livisto, an animal health pharmaceutical company, has launched the HappyVetProject, a new website designed to help support veterinary professionals' wellbeing. 

The company points to the well-known veterinary mental health and suicide stats, such as…

VetNurse.co.uk has set up VNs FOR VNs a new, private support group on the site for veterinary nurses who’ve found themselves on the receiving end of unfair criticism or abuse from pet owners on social media and elsewhere.

The internet has brought…

The RCVS Mind Matters Initiative is to hold new series of Campfire Chats: informal discussions on matters relating to veterinary health and wellbeing.

The new series comprises six online discussions taking place over the course of the spring, covering…

The RCVS has published a report summarising the latest research presented by mental health and wellbeing researchers at last November's Mind Matters Initiative Research Symposium. 

The plenary speaker was Professor Rory O’Connor, Chair of Health Psychology…

The organisers of the VET Festival (20-21 May 2022, Loseley Park) have published the results of research they carried out with the Veterinary Management Group which seem to show tentative signs of improvement in the wellbeing of veterinary professionals…

The RCVS is marking Neurodiversity Celebration Week by launching a new ‘neurodiversity resource hub’ area of its website and adding new modules on the topic to its Mind Matters Initiative Kite App.

Neurodiversity Celebration Week is a worldwide…

Vets4Pets has appointed ex BVA and SPVS President Gudrun Ravetz as Head of Workplace Engagement.

In addition to working as a clinician in private practice and for charity, Gudrun has worked in several veterinary-related roles in industry, both in management…

Vetlife has published a new information leaflet to help veterinary professionals suffering from loneliness. 

The charity highlights that loneliness affects the mental wellbeing of many in the profession, from locums being away from friends and family, students…

Staff at Paragon Veterinary Referrals are holding a fundraiser for one of their veterinary nurses, to help her achieve her bucket list before she dies of breast cancer which has now spread.

Laura Turnbull RVN, 34, was first diagnosed with breast cancer…

Vets4Pets has produced a new film to champion the work of all vets, nurses and support teams. 

The company says it thinks the film is an industry first because it depicts veterinary professionals in a way that they have never seen themselves before: cinematically…

Everyone (in the veterinary profession) is invited to The Great Vet Together, a social camping festival being held in Cornwall next week from 2nd-5th June. 

The event, which is being organised by Colin Whiting MRCVS and his wife Lizzy (also MRCVS), is …

Following the campaigning work of the broadcaster Mariella Frostrup, journalist Alice Smellie and others to raise awareness of the menopause, Vets Now has launched Peppy, a new app to support those of its staff who are going through it.

Alice and Mariella…

The charity Vetlife has expanded its charitable objectives so that veterinary nurses can now have full membership of the organisation and benefit from additional support.

Full membership means veterinary nurses can now stand for nomination as trustees…

VetNurse.co.uk has introduced a new policy of zero tolerance for bad manners in its forums. 

It's believed that VetNurse.co.uk and VetSurgeon.org, which run on a platform that predates Facebook, may be the first online communities to require good manners…

Vetlife is holding its third Veterinary Month of Movement next month, when veterinary professionals are asked to come together, get active, and fundraise for the charity.

The idea is that by raising money through exercise, which is documented to improve…

RVN Robyn Lowe has become the first veterinary nurse to be appointed to the Board of Trustees for veterinary charity Vetlife.  

Until recently, only veterinary surgeons could be elected to control the charity’s activities, with parts of its governing document…

ezyVet, a maker of veterinary practice management solutions, says it will donate £1 to Vetlife for every person that visits its stand (D70) at the London Vet Show, on the 17th and 18th November 2022.

Whilst you're there, the company will doubtless use…

The British Veterinary Association has published 'How to manage unfair and abusive reviews online', after Voice of the Veterinary Profession statistics revealed that half of all vets have been on the receiving end of online abuse, with unfair reviews…

CVS has announced that from the start of March, it will provide free tampons and towels for all staff whilst at work. 

The company says it estimates that 75% of its staff have periods and many will find themselves caught short without a pad or tampon when they…

The nursing team at Uplands Way Vets is using bandage art to make clients smile and create a talking point around their practice.

The team originally came up with the idea for a patient who needed bandages changed regularly over a long period of time…

To coincide with Vet Nurse Awareness Month, IVC Evidensia has released a new film celebrating veterinary nurses and the varied roles that they take on during their careers.

The film features veterinary nurses with all sorts of different roles within IVC Evidensia…

Two years since BVA launched its Good Veterinary Workplaces campaign, the association has launched new awards to recognise veterinary workplaces which have embraced the campaign ethos by going above and beyond to support the wellbeing of their teams. 

Veterinary…

Vet Oscar Sinfield is to cycle round every practice in Somerset over two days in September to raise money for Vetlife.

The route covers a distance of approximately 400 miles.

Oscar said: “My goals for the event are to raise awareness about mental health…

The BVA has launched a new menopause hub to support members of the veterinary professions affected by menopause and keep more vet nurses in the profession.

Evidence given to the Women and Equalities parliamentary committee by BUPA last year suggested…