Contextualised care

  Professor Sheena Warman, Deputy Head of School at Bristol Veterinary School and Professor Deep Khosa, University of Guelph, examine the concepts of Spectrum of Care and Contextualised Care and explain what these approaches mean for veterinary education.

Veterinary fees increasingly feel like a battleground between clients and vets, does it have to be this way? In this session we will explore how the professions, from large organisations down to the individual vet or nurse, can play a role in building a better understand between vets and clients on the topic of vet fees.

   In the first part of this two-part series, Ian Futter and Caroline Allen, Chief Veterinary Officers at the Scottish SPCA and the RSPCA, respectively, introduced the concept of contextualized care. In this article they explore the impact of owner factors on contextualized care and how these factors can affect the success or otherwise of prescribed veterinary treatments.

      The Association of Charity Vets has coordinated this article by Susan Paterson, Bree Merritt, Peter Kukadia, Alison Thomas and Runa Hanaghan to provide a comprehensive guide to tackling this frustrating condition.

Shoestring medicine: the guiding concepts

• Define contextualised care
• Recognise most appropriate care option will vary in different disease, patient, resource and owner contexts
• Identify the need for collaborate decision making in order to provide optimum care

Shoestring medicine: hyperthyroidism in cats

• List treatment options for hyperthyroidism in cats
• Identify concurrent factors that may influence treatment decisions (comorbidities, behaviour, resources available, owners wishes)
• Formulate a welfare appropriate plan for a hyperthyroid cat considering its context

In this webinar we look at ethical decision making.

This webinar is part of BSAVA’s Clinical Rounds series which are available to BSAVA members only and are free to attend.

In this webinar we explore the meaning of veterinary contextualised care in the shared decision-making process from the perspective of the vet. This hour-long webinar was first broadcast as part of BSAVA's Learn@Lunch series. Learn@Lunch broadcasts are available to BSAVA members only and are free to attend - visit the education page of the BSAVA website for details of future Learn@Lunch webinars. Recordings will be available for 3 years via the BSAVA Webinar Library.