BSAVA Companion - 2018, 6, June

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Changing demographics are having an impact on housing provision and pet ownership. Emma Dahm takes a closer look at what this means for our companion animals and their owners.

Veterinary research may not find the solution to the growing welfare problem of brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome – but answers could be found in the realm of social science, BSAVA members were told at their annual Congress in Birmingham.

It is time for UK veterinary practitioners to show that they value the work of their veterinary nurses by charging appropriately for the clinical services that they provide for clients, according to speakers at the Society of Practising Veterinary Surgeons/Veterinary Management Group congress held earlier this year. John Bonner reports.

Rabbit owners can have increasing confidence that their pets are in sympathetic hands when visiting their veterinary advisor with the number of practices qualifying as “rabbit-friendly” having more than doubled in the past year.

Immunohistochemical differentiation of reactive from malignant mesothelial cells as a diagnostic aid in canine pericardial disease.

The WSAVA has launched a campaign to help ensure equitable access to veterinary therapeutics for companion animal veterinarians wherever they work in the world. WSAVA President Dr Walt Ingwersen, explains why.

“Don't train to be a veterinary nurse – you'll spend all your working life cleaning”, teenager Hayley Walters was told by one of her lecturers at college in the early 1990s. Not the smartest piece of career advice ever offered, Hayley might think, as she steps forward to receive an MBE for services to veterinary education at Buckingham Palace in June. John Bonner talks to Hayley about her work, travels and achievements.

News and events from the BSAVA's regions.

A calendar of forthcoming central and regional CPD events June - September 2018.

This month Isabelle Desmas-Bazelle of Davies Veterinary Specialists presents notes on PARR.