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Veterinary Northern Ireland

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

Spot anyone you know on BBC 2?

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A new BBC series, Mountain Vets, airs on Friday 15th November, 8pm.  It follows three County Down practices as they do what they do best.  Whilst we suspect that most visitors to the VetNI site know what happens in a vet practice on a day-to-day basis (!) why not tune in and see who you know?  Vets, vet nurses, reception staff and the wider practice team – all serving their local community with warmth and sensitivity.  The spectacular Mourne Mountains and County Down are shown in all their glory too so it won’t do NI tourism any harm! 

  • Programme Name: Mountain Vets – TX: n/a – Episode: Mountain Vets – ep 1 (No. 1) – Picture Shows: Downe Veterinary Clinic Maurice King – (C) Rare TV – Photographer: William Kelly
  • Programme Name: Mountain Vets – TX: n/a – Episode: Mountain Vets – ep 3 (No. 3) – Picture Shows: Castle Veterinary Surgery Martin Fitzpatrick – (C) Rare TV – Photographer: William Kelly
  • Programme Name: Mountain Vets – TX: n/a – Episode: Mountain Vets – ep 2 (No. 2) – Picture Shows: Downe Veterinary Clinic Rachel Frew – (C) Rare TV – Photographer: William Kelly
  • Programme Name: Mountain Vets – TX: n/a – Episode: Mountain Vets – ep 1 (No. 1) – Picture Shows: Tullyraine Equine Clinic Inge D’Haese, Samantha Hamilton – (C) Rare TV – Photographer: William Kelly
  • Programme Name: Mountain Vets – TX: n/a – Episode: Mountain Vets – ep 1 (No. 1) – Picture Shows: Downe Veterinary Clinic Hazel McKelvey – (C) Rare TV – Photographer: William Kelly
  • Programme Name: Mountain Vets – TX: n/a – Episode: Mountain Vets – generics (No. n/a) – Picture Shows: Tullyraine Equine Clinic Hugh Suffern – (C) Rare TV – Photographer: William Kelly
  • Programme Name: Mountain Vets – TX: n/a – Episode: Mountain Vets – generics (No. n/a) – Picture Shows: Downe Veterinary Clinic Miriam Campbell – (C) Rare TV – Photographer: William Kelly
  • Programme Name: Mountain Vets – TX: n/a – Episode: Mountain Vets – generics (No. n/a) – Picture Shows: Castle Veterinary Clinic Aidan O’Hare – (C) Rare TV – Photographer: William Kelly
  • Programme Name: Mountain Vets – TX: n/a – Episode: Mountain Vets – generics (No. n/a) – Picture Shows: Downe Veterinary Clinic Cahir King – (C) Rare TV – Photographer: William Kelly

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.

VSSCO Educational Bursary

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Applications invited for this £2000 Educational Bursary open to N.I. Veterinary Practitioners to further expertise in any field of clinical veterinary science. The award was founded by the Veterinary Surgeons Supply Company in 1982 to encourage practitioners to further their expertise in a chosen discipline or project.
Applications must be submitted by 15th November.
Full rules can be found HERE and an application form can be found HERE.

Red Tractor Dairy Standards Changes

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As you know Red Tractor assured dairy members will be assured against a new version of the standard (V4.2) from Tuesday 1st Oct. Over the past few weeks Red Tractor have been working to ensure all are aware of the changes and what this may mean in terms of changes to current practices/documentation etc prior to their next assessment. A summary document can found at this link
https://assurance.redtractor.org.uk/contentfiles/Farmers-7032.pdf?_=637007928013074058

Red Tractor have updated a number of the templates on the website to reflect the amends along with adding templates for any ‘new’ requirements– the library of templates can be accessed here
https://assurance.redtractor.org.uk/tools-and-library/templates

There is also an updated pre assessment checklist available which reflects the changes https://assurance.redtractor.org.uk/contentfiles/Farmers-7046.pdf?_=637045208286914680

Should you have any questions about any of the standards or changes please do come back to our Dairy Technical Manager Kate Cross kate.cross@redtractor.org.uk

Competition seeking two additional Members for the TB Eradication Partnership (TBEP)

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For information, please see the link below to the DAERA web page which provides details of a Public Appointments competition seeking two additional Members for the TB Eradication Partnership (TBEP). Applications must be received by 2:00pm on Friday 27 September.

https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/articles/appointment-two-additional-members-northern-ireland-tuberculosis-eradication-partnership-board