Representing all vets in the North of Ireland
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Click here for revised NIVA rules as approved by the membership at an EGM on 9th February 2022
Events 2024
Officers and Council 2024
NIVA members wishing to contact NIVA Council members should e-mail info@vetni.co.uk and we will pass on contact details.
General enquiries for NIVA from anyone other than a current NIVA member should also be directed through the secretariat on info@vetni.co.uk
Executive Officers:
President: Sharon Verner
Senior Vice President: Esther Skelly-Smith
Junior Vice President: Kirsten Dunbar
Secretary: Mark Little
Treasurer: Patricia van Veen
Public Relations Team:
Press Officer: Susan Cunningham
Deputy Press Officer: Fiona McFarland
Council members:
- Roisin Dickinson
- Aoife Ferris
- Orla McAlister
- Louise O’Hare
- Michael Pratt
- Quirine Tettelar
- Sean Wensley
- Lara Wilson
Representatives on Council:
AVSPNI Representative: Seamus O’Kane
Young Vet Network Representative: Rachel Davies
VetNI Board Representative: Aurelie Moralis & Seamus O’Kane
Ex officio positions:
DAERA CVO: Robert Huey
VetNI: Jo Gibson/Joleen Little
BVA Policy Committee: David Torrens
BVA Regional Representative: Joleen Little
NIVA Membership Information
At the AGM on 22nd February, 2024, members ratified the following annual subscription rates:
Full membership – £144
Concessionary rates – £80
Senior member and Young member <8 years qualified
NIVA holds at least 4 meetings per year and a number of social events including the senior members’ lunch.
NIVA is the original territorial division of the British Veterinary Association (BVA) and works closely with the BVA Northern Ireland Branch to ensure the BVA represents the views of the profession here in the north when lobbying legislators and policy makers in London and Brussels.
Locally, NIVA champions veterinary causes with our own Assembly and endeavours to ensure that agri-food policy and other animal health and welfare policy issues are in line with veterinary science.
Young Vet Network NI (YVN NI) is an integral and thriving part of NIVA. As well as connecting and supporting recently graduated vets via Facebook, they provide a number of highly popular CPD events each year. You can link up with them HERE.
If you are interested in becoming a member of NIVA you can apply using the Data Capture Form.
Once you have submitted the form we will contact you by e-mail to process your application.
To Nominate a new NIVA Council member or Officer . . .
Click here to download Nomination Form for new NIVA Council members
OR complete the online form accessed HERE.