VetNI

Veterinary Northern Ireland

Veterinary Surgeon required for mixed practice

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Fancy life on the beautiful North Coast?
Veterinary Surgeon wanted to join our veterinary team based in North Antrim
We boast a new purpose built surgery for both large and small animals, with state of the art equipment including digital x-ray, ultrasound scanner, theatre and lab.
We are a veterinary nurse training centre. Our workload is 60% large animal and 40% small animal. We are looking for a veterinary surgeon, preferably with some experience but all applicants are welcome.
The successful applicant will have the freedom to devote more of their time to the aspect of practice that they most enjoy. The applicant must be enthusiastic, motivated and have good communication skills and be prepared to work as part of a team. We believe in a healthy work, life balance with generous annual leave and CPD that is encouraged and funded, alongside regular mentoring. Our rota is 1:5 with back up support always available.
We provide a vehicle allowance, accommodation and phone.
If you think this area of beautiful beaches, great surf, Championship golf courses, (the Open was hosted here last year), glens and hills would suit you please contact us. Email CV and cover letter to:   info@knockanboyvets.co.uk or Telephone:  028 207 41252 / 07793034283 (David) / 07793034284 (Brian)

NIVGS Autumn Outing Cancelled

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Due to the present COVID situation, The North of Ireland Veterinary Golf Society Autumn Outing due to be held in September has with regret been cancelled. Therefore the Jim McDowell trophy and BOCM cup will not be played for this year.
Bert Allison will be continuing his role as Captain in 2021.

Red Tractor pioneers streamed audits to safeguard UK farming chain

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Red Tractor is preparing to roll-out live streamed farm audits to enable new applicants to be assessed and current members to retain their status throughout the coronavirus pandemic. For full info from Red Tractor please open the link below:

Click her for information on Red Tractor Remote Assessments

For more information on Red Tractor’s advice for members during the Covid-19 pandemic, please go to https://assurance.redtractor.org.uk/covid-19-hub

Meet the 2020 AVSPNI President

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Cathal Carr has been in Veterinary practice in Coleraine since 1996.  Originally from Dublin, he graduated with a Physiology degree from Trinity College Dublin before going on to The Royal ‘Dick’ Veterinary College in Edinburgh. After a short time in mixed practice in Dromore Co. Down Cathal moved to mixed practice in Coleraine. After seven years, Cathal and his wife Anne Marie and took the opportunity to purchase a small animal practice.  They now concentrate mainly on Small Animal and Equine first opinion practice while still doing some TB testing.  Cathal has an interest in all types of veterinary and has been particularly involved in veterinary business having been on the board of SPVS (Society of Practising Veterinary Surgeons) from 2014 to 2020.

When Cathal gets away from running a busy practice he is involved in his local rugby club and enjoys playing golf badly.

Please share these CAFRE schemes with your farm clients

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Applications are open to a number of CAFRE Schemes, which can benefit farm businesses. These include:

To learn more about these schemes, you are invited to attend a ‘CAFRE – Supporting Your Farm Business’ event. These will be held on each of CAFRE’s campuses on the following dates:

Date and time Venue Location
2pm – 4pm
Tuesday  26 November
7pm – 9pm
Tuesday  26 November 		CAFRE
Greenmount
Conference Hall 		Greenmount
Campus
Antrim
BT41 4PS
7pm-9pm
Thursday 28 November   		CAFRE
Enniskillen
Conference Hall 		Enniskillen Campus
Enniskillen
BT74 4GF
7pm-9pm      
Tuesday 3 December 		CAFRE Loughry Innovation
Centre 		Loughry Campus
Cookstown
BT80 9AE

NIVA & AVSPNI Joint Autumn Cardiology Meeting – A great success!

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With such highly sought after speakers as Adrian Boswood and Dan Brockman, how could it be anything but a success! A good turnout of vets from all over Northern Ireland came along to hear the two presentations. They also had the opportunity to take part in some practical human CPR training on the day too.

This event also saw the AVSPNI charity draw come to a close with Michael Woodside from Clare Vets winning the HeartSine defibrillator which was very kindly donated by HeartSine. All funds have been raised in aid of Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke and the Freeman Heart and Lung Transplant Association.

AVSPNI & NIVA would like to thank the principle sponsor Boehringer Ingelheim as well as CEVA and IMV who also supported this event.