The joint Society of Practising Veterinary Surgeons (SPVS) and Mind Matters Initiative (MMI) Practice Stars Awards have opened up again for 2021 and are looking for those members of staff who have helped keep up morale during a difficult year. All members of the veterinary team are eligible to be nominated for a Practice Star Award including veterinary surgeons, veterinary nurses, student vets & VNs, animal care assistants, practice managers, technicians, receptionists and other support staf

Following the passing of Andi Elizabeth Ewen, BEVA Past President and friend John Owen has written the following obituary. Throughout our forty- four years of living in the small Wiltshire village of Biddestone Andi Ewen has been the most important element of the village’s life and its many activities. Whenever something needed to be done in the village Andi either did it herself or because of her amazing range of friends, knew someone somewhere who could and would help. It was therefore n

Veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses will have the opportunity to provide evidence regarding the impact of the coronavirus pandemic upon their experiences of working as a veterinary professional with the launch, this week, of a new Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) coronavirus survey. The survey, which is confidential, will ask the professions questions on the impact of the pandemic in areas such as hours worked and working patterns (for example, changing hours or working remotely