Places are still available for the latest in the BVA’s series of lunchtime sessions, which aim to help address the veterinary sector’s workforce pressures.

Nursing body says bid to define role should have involved stakeholders “to provide a single definition that encompasses the wide and diverse range of knowledge and skills that veterinary nurses have”.

Wear Referrals, Southfields Veterinary Specialists and Willows Veterinary Centre are now accredited by the College of Animal Welfare to run in-depth training for SVNs.

Professionals who have gone above and beyond will be recognised at awards ceremony in Manchester later this month  (23 March).

Fourteen bursaries have been awarded through a VetPartners programme, while applications have also opened for a new round of £80,000 EMS bursary grants from Vets4Pets.

Nurse is veterinary technician specialist (VTS) in two fields – oncology and small animal internal medicine – and just one of two veterinary nurses in the UK with double VTS status.

Officials have described the measure as “very modest” after its approval by the Privy Council.

RCVS VN council members agreed the new definition at its February meeting for the purpose of providing clarity to professions and public.

Georgia Gray is completing research on the confidence levels of veterinary nurses when dealing with such patients.

Dogs Trust-funded work, led by vet school and the School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience at University of Bristol, will look at how dogs respond to pheromones when left alone.

Esther Skelly-Smith says animal welfare will also be a key plank of her year as president.

One of the UK’s leading veterinary groups is asking employees globally to nominate a woman they work with who they believe goes above and beyond.

Analysis finds 95% strongly agree VN title should be protected – while nearly half of respondents said they knew people working as a VN without being RCVS-registered.

Laura Turnbull, of Paragon Veterinary Referrals, has died following an eight-year battle with cancer.

“We have built an incredible community, and it’s such a privilege to be able to watch such meaningful and supportive conversations unfold” – VN Times editor, Rachael Buzzel.

Practices are being urged to find out if they may have a claim for compensation in an action lawyers claim could be worth more than £2 billion.

Veterinary practices are being offered new materials to help them raise awareness of the potential risks faced by pets as spring draws closer.

The £16 million referral centre will host VNs from 8:45am to 4pm on 25 February and include a tour of the hospital.