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Kate wasn't sure she wanted to be a vet and without the required subjects for traditional course entry, she embarked on Nottingham's 'prelim' course. She took her time exploring options with mixed practice, first opinion equine, before undertaking an internship. Following this she used her 'veterinary passport' to make the most of seeing the worlds and has settled for an antipodean life as a repro...

Imogen is a first opinion practitioner at Bell Equine, in Kent. With unwavering passion she chairs the Ethics & Welfare Committee, heads projects which focus on welfare, and has started planning Congress 2026 with welfare forefront and centre. Far from covering the obvious ways in which our profession should consider welfare, her approach to 'everyday welfare' is set to provoke us into conside...

A rundown of the most important news from the last month that you need to know as a veterinary professional including: BEVA News BEVA Congress 2025 - 10th-13th September in Birmingham BEVA Newshour session is on Wiley Online Library MonitorME EIDS EQDSR Q2 Focus Article WNV Test to Exclude BEVA Trust volunteering opportunities BEVA CPD BEVApod Equine Veterinary Journal Podcasts Equine Veterinary E...

A rundown of the most important news from the last month that you need to know as a veterinary professional including: BEVA News BEVA Congress 2025 - 10th-13th September in Birmingham MonitorME EIDS BEVA Trust volunteering opportunities BEVA CPD BEVApod Equine Veterinary Journal Podcasts Equine Veterinary Education Podcast

Rosina and Marie talk us through the practical teaching offerings for vets and nurses at Congress this year. From suturing, bandaging, radiography and ultrasound, to nerve and joint blocks, including practical sessions with the Arthrex team in their bespoke mobile teaching laboratory. There is also sessions with BARTA exploring the role of vets and nurses in civil emergencies. And we have the nurs...

Junior Vice President, Kate Blakeman, and farm vet and RCVS Council member, Paddy Gordon, discuss the new 'One To Watch' award which BEVA has launched this year. The winner will be announced at Congress and presented with a trophy, one year's BEVA membership, a fully paid Congress experience and exclusive career-boosting opportunities. All finalists will receive a one-day ticket to Congress... we...

What have this year's Congress Committee got in store for you in Birmingham this September?.' with Nicola Lynch and April Lawson "Nicola and April talk us through the Scientific Programme for this year's Congress. New approaches to orthopaedic pain, PPE findings, pregnancy complications, imaging abnormalities and the use of PET, changes facing the industry, moral maze on horses in sport, minimisin...

In this series of BEVApod Life, Marketing Executive Fiona chats to the winners of our new member of the month campaign. This month we get to know our August winners, Antonia Milner and Stuart Altoft from Summerleaze Equine Vets. Recently returning from many years in the charity sector to join Summerleaze, a new recruit at the practice nominated Antonia and Stuart for going above and beyond to supp...

BEVA President, Bruce Bladon, and Chair of the 2025 Congress Committee, Rose Tallon, talk us through what is on offer this year in Birmingham. From the President's Reception at The Alchemist, and the President's Choice stream on Excellence in Surgery, to the industry wide moral mazes on horses in sport and working together in cross-disciplinary teams. There are practical's and panel discussions, w...

A rundown of the most important news from the last month that you need to know as a veterinary professional including: BEVA member of the month BEVA news BEVA Congress EIDS website Send a sweet nudge to catch up at Congress BEVA Trust volunteering opportunities BEVA CPD BEVA member benefits

In this series of BEVApod Life, Marketing Executive Fiona chats to the winners of our new member of the month campaign. This month we get to know our July winner, Deirdre Baird from McGonnell & Gillatt Horse Vets. Deirdre was nominated by her colleague as an out of hours superhero who despite having the worst luck when on call, always gets the job done with a smile on her face!   Think you kno...

A rundown of the most important news from the last month that you need to know as a veterinary professional including: BEVA News BEVA Congress 2025 - 10th-13th September in Birmingham MonitorME Test to exclude West Nile Virus in Horses - GOV.UK EIDS BEVA Grand Prix BEVA Trust volunteering opportunities BEVA CPD Congress send a chocolate LIHS 2025 BEVApod Equine Veterinary Journal Podcasts EVJ Race...

Most of us have grown up being told it's rude to talk about money, but is that helping us or hindering us? Council member Sophie Eaden talks to, equine vet and personal finance expert, Alice Barker about how to have better conversations about our salaries and why that's important. They also discuss the dreaded salary negotiation conversations and how to handle them like a pro. Then finish up with...

A rundown of the most important news from the last month that you need to know as a veterinary professional including: BEVA News BEVA Congress 2025 - 10th-13th September in Birmingham MonitorME EIDS BEVA Trust volunteering opportunities BEVA CPD BEVApod Equine Veterinary Journal Podcasts Equine Veterinary Education Podcast

Talking about our feelings may still seem a bit fluffy to many of us in the equine veterinary profession but did you know it can improve patient safety as well as team cohesion and retention? Sarah Emptage from Bell Equine shares how they conduct "wellbeing rounds", what these are and how to set them up as well as the beneficial effects that running them has had on the team. With a growing evidenc...

Following on from the publication of BEVA's Schedule 3 guidelines in 2023, Marie and the BEVA Nurse Committee have been working hard with Jim Green at BARTA to understand the role of the equine RVN in emergency rescue situations. The new guidelines being published jointly by BEVA and BARTA aim to highlight the role of the RVN during these high stress and challenging situations to further improve a...

A rundown of the most important news from the last month that you need to know as a veterinary professional including: Links BEVA News BEVA's One To Watch Award BEVA Awards Send a chocolate campaign BEVA Congress 2025 - 10th-13th September in Birmingham MonitorME EIDS BEVA Trust BEVA CPD BEVApod Equine Veterinary Journal Podcasts Equine Veterinary Education Podcast A review of the equine suspensor...

Bruce explains why monitoring antibiotic usage in equine practice is an essential next step for us if we want to avoid losing some of our most critical antibiotics. Links MonitorME Eclipse VetIT Antibiotic usage in 14 equine practices over a 10-year period (2012–2021) by Rose E. Tallon, Brian Whitt, Bruce M. Bladon (EVJ) VARRS update 2024 BEVA Drugs app

The Back in the Saddle group career coaching scheme was launched in 2024 and received overwhelmingly positive feedback from its first cohort. We invited coachee, Vicky Jux, to share her experience of being part of this initiative, which is free to member and open to vets and nurses who are over 5 years qualified. The impact of this coaching on those involved is seemingly more far-reaching than any...

A rundown of the most important news from the last month that you need to know as a veterinary professional including: Back in the Saddle BEVA Grand Prix Horse Trust's Healthiest Body Condition Awards SPVS Salary Questionnaire Voconiq Report BEVA Congress 2025 - 10th-13th September in Birmingham MonitorME EIDS BEVA Trust volunteering opportunities BEVA CPD BEVA Congress 2025 Equine Veterinary Jour...

A rundown of the most important news from the last month that you need to know as a veterinary professional including: Links BEVA News BEVA Congress 2025 - 10th-13th September in Birmingham RCVS Finance Team: finance@rcvs.org.uk or 020 7202 0722. AMTRA survey FEI HorseApp Vaccination Module MonitorME FEEVA National Equine Forum (NEF) EIDS BEVA CPD BEVA Trust volunteering opportunities February EVJ...

Hamish is clearly not afraid to challenge his expectations, nor take a punt on an opportunity when it arises... but he's made sure he realises the advantages whilst accepting the challenges and has seen all walks of equine veterinary life, from multi-million pound racehorses to working equids. Far from narrowing down his career choices, this has driven him to maintain the spread of opportunities i...

A rundown of the most important news from the last month that you need to know as a veterinary professional including: Voconiq Report National Equine Forum 2025 EIDS CCU: Bridle Fit with Russell MacKechnie-Guire EVJ’s January On the Hoof podcast BEVApod Life: Menopause: supporting the women in our profession with Liz Barton and Gemma Dransfield BEVA CPD BEVA Trust volunteering opportunities

Menopause is an increasingly hot topic for the general population, but there are aspects of equine veterinary work which can make elements of this normal ageing process more challenging for those affected and the people around them. Liz talks us through the basic understanding which we all need in order to fully support our workforce during those times, and Gemma relays how far-reaching the impact...

A rundown of the most important news from the last month that you need to know as a veterinary professional including: RCVS workforce model highlights need for more vets working in public health VMD seizes over 13,000 unauthorised horse medicines sold illegally online Report suspected breached of the AMRs here: 01932 338338 or online . How British racing’s data-driven Racing Risk Models are being...