Veterinary Nursing News Headlines

    Dechra announces London Vet Show CPD sessions

    Dechra has announced four CPD sessions it will be hosting at the London Vet Show on 14th and 15th November. 11:00 to 11:50 on the 14th: ‘The three things about Cushing’s I wish I’d known sooner’, presented by Emily Casey BVM&S MRCVS, veterinary technical...

    Survey reveals reasons older horses are retired

    A survey by the Gluck Equine Research Centre at the University of Kentucky and Spillers, published in the Equine Veterinary Journal 1 , has revealed the main reasons why horses are retired. The survey of 2717 horse owners, 56% of which were leisure...

    HT Vista launches app for its cancer screening device

    HT Vista, which makes a device which uses thermal imaging and AI to screen dermal and subcutaneous masses in dogs, has developed a data collection app for use alongside the device. The app allows practices to submit results along with cytology and...

    Dechra launches novel strangles vaccine

    Dechra Veterinary Products has launched Strangvac, a protein-based strangles vaccine for horses and ponies. Strangvac has been in development for over 25 years and Dechra says it's the first and only intramuscular vaccine to help protect against strangles...

    King Charles rehomes chicken charity's millionth hen

    King Charles has adopted the millionth hen to be rehomed by the British Hen Welfare Trust (BHWT). Founded in 2005 by Jane Howorth MBE, the British Hen Welfare Trust rehomes commercial laying hens that would usually be sent to slaughter, typically at...

    New BSAVA client info leaflets on reptiles

    The BSAVA has published a series of client information leaflets about the care and welfare of reptile species most commonly kept in the UK. Data for 2023 from UK Pet Food research found that around 5% of UK households own a reptile, up from 3.4% in...

    Improve opens ECC scholarship for vet nurses

    Improve Veterinary Education has opened applications for the Louise O’Dwyer ECC scholarship for veterinary nurses. The successful candidate will be awarded a free place on Improve Veterinary Education’s Emergency and Critical Care Nurse Certificate...

    New support for contextualised care from RCVS Knowledge

    RCVS Knowledge has produced a series of free contextualised care discussion guides designed to help communication between veterinary professionals and clients. The guides have been developed for vet teams to share with their clients and work through...

    Moores Orthopaedic Clinic gets the go ahead for new canine elbow surgery research

    The Moores Orthopaedic Clinic has got approval from the RCVS Ethics Review Panel to offer Biomedtrix third-generation TATE elbow replacement surgery for dogs with severe osteoarthritis as part of a clinical evaluation trial for the implant. The original...

    Hill's Symposium to look at connection between gut microbiome and other organs

    Hill's Pet Nutrition has announced that its free online symposium will this year focus on the relationship between the gut microbiome and other organs of the body. This year's event, titled “Nourish the Gut, Nurture the Future,” will have talks from...

    CVS embarks on new study to throw light on colitis in adult horses

    CVS is embarking on a new study to investigate and document the clinical and clinicopathological features, treatments and outcomes of colitis in UK adult horses. A team of researchers led by Tim Mair, CVS Equine Veterinary Director and Specialist in...

    Submissions invited from vet nurses for BSAVA’s 2025 Clinical Abstracts

    Applications are now open for the BSAVA’s Clinical Abstracts programme for 2025. The Clinical Abstracts provide an opportunity to present new research to the wider veterinary community at Congress and Expo 2025, taking place at Manchester Central on...

    Reading practice becomes first outside North America to achieve 'Fear Free' accreditation

    Harrison Family Vets in Reading has become the first practice outside North America to achieve ‘Fear Free Veterinary Practice Certification’. The Fear Free movement was founded in 2016 by US veterinary surgeon Dr Marty Becker. Marty said: “Just like...

    New practice support materials encourage owners to take a risk-based approach to parasites

    Krka has launched 'Ears to Tail', a range of veterinary practice resources designed to encourage a responsible, risk-based approach to the use of parasiticides. The materials include pet owner guides, reception posters and slides to display on waiting...

    CVS makes PPE compulsory for equine vet nurses

    CVS Equine has made personal protective equipment (PPE) mandatory for all of its staff that handle horses. From early 2025, all vets, nurses and technicians will be required to wear a hard hat in the vicinity of a horse, pony or donkey – whether in...

    Vetlife invites nurses to take the plunge

    Vetlife is inviting veterinary nurses to come and take part in a sponsored cold water dip at Walpole Bay Tidal Pool, Margate, at 12:30pm on Friday, May 17th. The Walpole Bay Tidal Pool is the biggest in the UK, covering four acres. Everyone taking...

    West Midlands practice named Best UK Vet

    Warren House Veterinary Centre in Walsall has been named as the overall winner of VetHelpDirect.com's BestUKVets Award. The awards are given to practices across the UK with the most four- and five-star reviews from their clients. To select the winners...

    Julian Hoad becomes new BSAVA President

    Julian Hoad has taken up his role as BSAVA President for 2024-25. Taking over from Carl Gorman, Julian says his focus is to continue the work undertaken this year as part of a ‘programme of change’ for BSAVA, that will continue to promote the strong...

    Vetlexicon now available in different languages

    Vetstream has updated the content on its Vetlexicon website so it is now available in a number of different languages. Dr Mark Johnston, CEO of Vetstream said: “The usage data of Vetlexicon has continually shown us how important the client factsheets...

    Study shows most adverse veterinary drug reactions go unreported

    A study published in the Journal of Small Animal Practice has concluded that the majority of suspected adverse drug reactions (SADR) in veterinary medicine go unreported. The authors say that whilst it has long been suspected that adverse drug reactions...

    Two weeks till Davies Veterinary Specialists' 2024 Congress

    Davies Veterinary Specialists' 2024 Congress is coming up on Saturday, September 28th, at The Forest Centre, Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire. The streams for veterinary nurses will include six lectures on topics ranging from neurology to dentistry...

    Dechra launches amlodipine product for feline hypertension

    Dechra has launched Lodisure, a 1mg chicken-flavoured amlodipine tablet for the treatment of feline hypertension. Available in packs of 56 (4 x 14 tablet blister packs), Lodisure tablets are divisible for accurate dosing. The recommended starting...

    Equip Artevac will be in short supply

    Zoetis has announced a supply problem with Equip Artervac, its vaccine against equine viral arteritis The current inventory of Equip Artervac has an expiry date of March 29, 2023 and the company is not expecting a new batch to be available until the...

    Louise Hosford wins £2000 Vets Now bursary

    Louise Hosford, a Principal Nurse Manager who works at Vets Now's emergency and critical care clinic in Sheffield has become the sixth winner of the company's bursary in memory of Louise O’Dwyer. The bursary gives Louise a £2,000 CPD allowance for...

    SPVS launches Congress 2025

    SPVS has announced that its 2025 Congress, aimed at the whole practice team, will take place at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole from Thursday 30th January to Saturday 1st February 2025. The opening speaker will be Cassie Leonard (pictured), engineer...