17 Nov 2025 - 18 Nov 2025

Foot and farriery

Take part in discussion and get hands-on at our two-day Foot and Farriery course to boost your confidence in managing common conditions affecting the equine foot.

Foot and Farriery

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Course dates

17 Nov 2025 09:30 - 18 Nov 2025 16:30

Sussex Equine Hospital, Billingshurst Road, , RH20 3BB

About the course

Join us on this ever-popular course to gain confidence in diagnosing and treating conditions affecting the foot. We’ll cover hugely effective but often under-used techniques such as foot casting, deepen your understanding of remedial farriery, teach you how to correctly interpret radiographs of the foot, discuss the use of MRI, look at how to treat wounds and hoof cracks and refine your skills in regional anaesthesia and blocking.

Who is this course for?

• Equine vets who have experience in foot and farriery work but want to enhance their diagnostic and management skills
• Equine vets looking to improve their knowledge and understanding of remedial farriery

Course highlights

• Hands-on practical sessions to perfect your technique
• Taught by friendly, hugely experienced vets and farriers
• The opportunity to hear from the experts on the latest thoughts regarding successful diagnosis and management of conditions affecting the foot

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course you will...

• have improved or refreshed your knowledge of anatomy related to blocking, imaging and treatment
• feel more confidence in practical diagnostic techniques
• have improved your knowledge of diagnostic techniques, including MRI
• greater confidence in formulating diagnostic, treatment, and management plans for foot lameness
• have increased your confidence in working with farriers and understanding their work

Our speakers

• Course Organiser: Jane Boswell MA VetMB CertVA CertES(Orth) DipECVS MRCVS
• Course Organiser: Ellen Singer BA DVM DVSc DipACVS DipECVS FRCVS
• Ian Hughes DipWCF
• Grant Laing
• Luis Rubio-Martinez PhD DVSc DipACVS DipECVS DipACVSMR MRCVS

Course sponsors

Course prices

• BEVA vet member: £625
• Non member: £1,250

Terms and conditions

By registering for this course, you agree to the following terms and conditions:

Payment and transfers

• All payments must be made in pound sterling. Your place on the course is not guaranteed until full payment has been made.
• Booked places can be transferred to another person free of charge if requested two weeks before the start of the course. If the transferee is not a BEVA member, they will be liable for the difference between the member and non-member rate. If a transfer is requested less than two weeks prior to the start date a 10% administration charge will apply. 
• A full refund will be made, less a 10% administration charge, if cancellation is more than six weeks before the start of the course.
• A refund cannot be guaranteed if cancellation is less than six weeks before the start of the course. A full refund will be made if we are able to resell the place, less a 20% administration charge.
• In the unlikely event that we are required to cancel or postpone the course you can opt to receive a full refund or receive a CPD credit. The CPD credit is valid for one year from the date of issue and can be used on any BEVA CPD event.

Membership deals

• To be eligible for the BEVA member price you are required to be a BEVA member at the time of the course. If your membership expires before the course date you will be invoiced the difference.
• For all non-member bookings a 12-month digital BEVA membership is included in the course price and will be set up within five working days of receiving payment. If you cancel your place after the membership is set up any refund given will be minus the number of months membership you have already had. If you transfer your place the membership can be transferred at the same time, however the length of the membership will not be extended.

Programme

• Whilst the course programme is correct at time of print, BEVA reserves the right to change details of the event without notice. All best endeavours will be made to present the programme as publicised however alterations may occasionally be necessary due to circumstances beyond our control.
• You will receive 12 months access to course materials via the BEVA online learning platform. Recordings of live aspects of the course will be made available as soon as possible after the live date.

Registration, access and attendance

• You must have appropriate liability and professional indemnity insurance to attend BEVA courses.
• You must bring appropriate, clean safety wear (for example coveralls, hard hats and boots) to courses that involve practical sessions. When relevant an equipment list will be provided to you via your course page.
• At the point of booking you self-certify that you are suitably qualified to attend the course and qualified to undertake the procedures being taught. If you are in training for such a qualification BEVA must be made aware of your training status at the time of booking.
• Photography and videography may take place during the event. All photographs may be used by BEVA in the future. Please inform the course organiser if you do not wish to be included in photography. All images become the property of BEVA.
• Unless you actively specify otherwise, we may share your contact details with course organisers and sponsors.
• To protect the security of the BEVA Online Learning platform, attendees should not share login credentials. Every attendee will receive their own login credentials.
• BEVA is not responsible for errors made in providing your email address. You should contact events@beva.org.uk if you are concerned an error has been made.