BEVA Council Updates

Dave Rendle, BEVA Health and Medicines Committee Chair provides an update on the work the committee have been doing. He discusses the projects on antimicrobial stewardship including quantifying antimicrobial usage in equine practice; a new Antibiotic Champions scheme and ongoing issues with anthelmintic use.

Lucy Grieve provides a message to BEVA members highlighting the new Covid guidance for vets and veterinary practices.In the video Lucy encourages vets to read the guidance and consider it from a balanced perspective. The full guidelines can be viewed here.

Taking place on Wednesday 27 January 2021 from 19:00, The Great Weight Debate will examine different perspectives on equine weight management from across the equestrian sector, including the views of a horse owner, livery yard owner and coach, equine welfare officer, equine vet, nutritionist and a competition judge. Lucy Grieve will represent the equine veterinary profession alongside horse owner Helen Gale, yard owner and coach Beth Maloney, welfare officer Penny Baker, nutritionist Liz Bulbro

Our Clinical Practice committee have just released a brand-new toolkit that will furnish newly qualified or vets unfamiliar with duty of care at events with a framework and signposting to allow for clear, considered, decision-making. Huw Griffiths who led the project tells us more... Attending equine events is a necessary and rewarding role undertaken by many equine vets following graduation. At equestrian events there is a breadth and depth of knowledge that ensures success even when faced with

Antibiotic resistance poses a significant threat to global human and animal health and there is considerable evidence in human health that auditing antimicrobial use can be a powerful tool to changing prescribing practices. At BEVA, our Health and Medicines Committee are working on several projects that aim to tackle antimicrobial resistance in equine practice. We chat to Dave Rendle, Chair of the Health and Medicines Committee to get an update on what is happening.We have made great strides sin

On 21 November, BEVA were invited to speak at the "Get Into Veterinary Medicine Insight and UCAS Conference" to share with prospective vet students the realities of equine practice. We asked BEVA Council member Phil Cramp to attend, his report follows. Vet Mentor is part of the Medic Mentor organisation. It is a non-profit organisation run by vets for applying students, veterinary students and vets. It aims to help students by widening access to veterinary medicine, providing courses and educa

The British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA) has organised a week of engaging interactive initiatives for members during World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 18-24 November 2020 and has also upgraded its award winning PROTECT ME toolkit, to encourage the continued reduction of the use of critically important antibiotics. The responsible use of antimicrobials is essential in order to prevent widespread resistance and to ensure continued availability of antimicrobials both in terms of effectiven

Lucy Grieve, Chair of the Ethics and Welfare Committee, provides an update on the work of the committee including the latest from the BEVA Obesity project.

Dave Rendle, the BEVA Health and Medicines Committee Chair, provides an update on what the Committee have been working on recently. For more information about the committee please visit the Health and Medicines Committee web page.