Author: James Westgate
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RCVS council election manifesto: Lucie Goodwin
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LUCIE GOODWIN BVetMed, DipACVIM, MRCVS Axiom Veterinary Laboratories, The Manor House, Brunel Road, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 4PB. T 01626 355655 M 07834 784385 E lucie.mrcvs@gmail.com PROPOSERS: Katherine Hall, Hayley Mitchell I graduated from the RVC in 2004 and spent the following two years working in a busy small animal hospital in Bristol. Having been…
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RCVS council election manifesto: Melissa Donald
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MELISSA DONALD BVMS, MRCVS Otters View, Purclewan Mill, Dalrymple, East Ayrshire KA6 6AN. T 01292 560083 M 07921 384852 E melissadonald88@gmail.com PROPOSERS: Alison Lambert, Freda Scott-Park I started as a food animal intern at Iowa State University, having graduated from Glasgow (1987). After two children, my first full-time position was in a traditional mixed two-person…
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RCVS council election manifesto: Amanda Boag
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AMANDA BOAG MA, VetMB, DipECVECC, DipACVECC, DipACVIM, FHEA, MRCVS Mid Jawcraig Farm, Falkirk FK1 3AL. T 01324 851381 M 07790 030068 E amanda.boag@vets-now.com PROPOSERS: Daniel Brockman, Julian Wells After postgraduate clinical training in the UK and the US, I spent my early career working in academia as a lecturer in emergency and critical care (ECC)…
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RCVS council election manifesto: Christopher Barker
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CHRISTOPHER BARKER BVSc, MLitt, CertVR, MRCVS Ashlea Veterinary Centre, Unit 2b, Port Road Business Park, Carlisle CA2 7AF. T 01228 549177 M 07703 753758 E ctbarker@supanet.com PROPOSERS: Anne French, Iain Richards Since qualifying from Bristol in 1980, I have worked in a wide range of first-opinion practices (mixed, pure equine and pure small animal) and,…
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Branding your practice
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VBJ editor James Westgate speaks to Niall McFerran about the advantages of selling own-brand products from your veterinary practice and how working with The Soft Chew Company can make this a reality.
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Looking to the future: John Blackwell
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London Vet Show 2014 saw the launch of Vet Futures, a major new initiative that aims to help the veterinary profession prepare for and shape its own future. Jointly funded and led by the RCVS and the BVA, this project aims to help understand where the provision of veterinary services is currently heading, whether this…
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Bigger and better: London Vet Show 2014
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London Vet Show has rapidly become one of the most anticipated events on the calendar for UK veterinary professionals. Close links with the Royal Veterinary College and more recently forged alliances with the BVA and BVNA have seen it go from strength to strength in the five short years since its inception. Organisers of the annual two-day show pride…
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2014 ‘Drive Nutrition’ winner announced
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In case you didn’t get the opportunity to attend the 2014 BVNA Congress (October 10-12), this is the moment unsuspecting RVN Lisa Reading learned she had won the grand prize in Hill’s Pet Nutrition’s “Drive Nutrition” promotion – a brand new Fiat 500! We also caught up with Lisa for a quick chat after the…
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Attracting and retaining clients (pt.1)
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“Are owners who buy jumpers for their dogs unhinged, odd, eccentric or perfectly normal?” A strange question perhaps, but – in the first part of her TMS presentation* – Onswitch MD Alison Lambert explains that people who visit your practice aren’t like you. In fact, no matter how daft you think they are, many loving…
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The key to your new career
Regular vetsonline users (or at least those with an interest in changing their career path) may have noticed a change to the site in the past couple of months – specifically our recruitment section. What was initially a fairly basic affair with a handful of job listings has been transformed into an all-singing, all-dancing recruitment platform that is set to…