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Significant event audit: informed consent


QI Vets is back with another significant event audit (SEA) in practice. QI Vets is a fictional team, but based on true stories from UK practices, created by RCVS Knowledge’s Case Example Working Party to help veterinary teams apply quality improvement (QI) to real situations. This time, a medication is … more
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RCVS updates informed consent guidance


Royal College details further advice for vets and veterinary nurses regarding client discussions and responsibility prior to treatments or procedures being carried out.

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Hospital clients ‘disempowered’ by consent forms


Two-thirds of clients who signed informed consent forms viewed the document as disempowering them, instead giving control to the vet, a study has found. In the first published work of its kind, 470 clients attending the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals at the RVC were retrospectively surveyed to establish their … more

Copies of consent forms wanted for research


Dear editor, I am a veterinary surgeon and PhD student in the School of Law at the University of Birmingham. My PhD topic is informed consent in veterinary practice. I hope to produce recommendations for informed consent protocols in practice. For part of this study, I am collecting copies of … more

Informed consent: so much more than ‘sign there’


All too often, I hear colleagues (vets and nurses) asking a client to sign a consent form by saying “sign there”, without further discussion. A variant of this is the admitting nurse assuming the vet who advised the procedure has discussed consent with the owner. For consent to be valid it must be … more

Bridging the gap between poultry keepers and vets


ABSTRACT Reduced veterinary staffing levels, the COVID pandemic and the unprecedented avian flu outbreak have highlighted historical gaps in knowledge about pet poultry. In 2022, the University of Nottingham and the British Hen Welfare Trust collaborated to produce a free online course to address this gap and to support the … more
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Use of acupuncture to treat chronic pain in a giant rabbit


Acupuncture, although originating as a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) therapy, now has a wealth of evidence to support its use in Western medicine. Good-quality studies demonstrating its effects on the central and peripheral nervous system, connective tissue mechanics and cell signalling have been emerging rapidly over the past 20 years, … more
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