Farm Vet Champions at BCVA
Date: Friday 18th October 2024
Opening times: 09:15 - 17:30
Venue: Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, Wales
Details
Join us at our Farm Vet Champions sessions at BCVA Congress on Friday 18th October 2024 to discover the benefits of having national data to help drive decisions and how setting SMART goals can help us achieve these aims to the benefit of the reputations of the red meat and milk industries, the farmers involved and the practice team.
These practical sessions will include immediate take home messages and information on how the Farm Vet Champions initiative can help you and your practice get up to speed with respect to working with your clients to submit their cattle and sheep antibiotic data onto the Medicines Hub.
There will also be the opportunity to meet and chat with the Farm Vet Champions team at a drinks reception on Thursday 17th October from 7:30pm.
We are delighted to be joining BCVA at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport for their 2024 Congress. In recent years there has been a plethora of activity in ensuring we use antibiotics responsibly. Whether you have made loads of progress or are just starting on the journey, there will be something in these sessions for you.
Friday 18th October
Data driven decisions for sheep flocks - Lecture by Fiona Lovatt
Friday 18th October 12:45 - 13:00
Dexter Room
Join Fiona Lovatt, RCVS Knowledge Medicines Clinical Lead for a session detailing how data can help drive the decision making process for sheep flock health.
Sheep and beef data: KPIs, medicines and more - Workshop by Fiona Lovatt and Sarah Hewitt
Friday 18th October 14:00 - 15:30
Jersey Room
Join Fiona Lovatt, RCVS Knowledge Medicines Clinical Lead and Sarah Hewitt, Clinical Assistant Professor at University of Nottingham for an opportunity to engage with sheep and beef farmers over their data, key performance indexes (KPIs), medicines and more.
Lets get started: Reducing antibiotic use with a SMART approach - Workshop by Jude Roberts, Amy Cox and Fiona Lovatt
Friday 18th October 16:00 - 17:30
Limousin Room
Join Jude Roberts from Map of Ag, BCVA Board member Amy Cox, and Fiona Lovatt, RCVS Knowledge Medicines Clinical Lead for a session detailing how to support dairy farms in understanding and reducing antibiotic use using a SMART goals approach.
Speakers
Fiona Lovatt, RCVS Knowledge Medicines Lead, Chair of Sheep Antibiotic Guardian Group
Fiona Lovatt is the Clinical Lead for Medicines at RCVS Knowledge. She joins the team with a passion for proactive veterinary involvement on UK sheep farms, particularly enthusing both vets and sheep farmers to interact better through proactive individual flock health planning and Flock Health Clubs.
Fiona Lovatt runs Flock Health Ltd, a sheep veterinary consultancy business (www.flockhealth.co.uk) that works collaboratively with vets, farmers, processors, retailers and pharmaceutical companies, primarily in the UK but also further afield. She is an RCVS Recognised Specialist in Sheep Health and Production, a diplomate of the European College of Small Ruminant Health Management and works, on a very part-time basis, as a clinical associate professor at the University of Nottingham.
Fiona is a past president of the Sheep Veterinary Society and currently chairs the UK Sheep Antibiotic Guardian Group, having represented the sheep industry on the RUMA Targets Task Force since 2016.
Fiona is a trustee of the Veterinary Christian Fellowship and lives in a beautiful part of rural northern England with her husband and three children, not to mention the dog, two pigs and three hens!