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Pre-consultation conversation guide for pet owners
22 July 2024 - 98KB DOCX
This guide is designed to help pet owners prepare for a veterinary consultation and help the veterinary team identify any support areas they may need. It is not to replace the conversations that will occur during the consultation but rather to aid them by helping owners make a note of the things that are most important to them and their pet.
Your pets well-being during treatment
22 July 2024 - 92KB DOCX
This form will help pet owners and the veterinary team identify how pets may react to certain treatments, and it will guide overall decisions on treatment plans. This can be filled out by the owner, or during a consultation with the owner and veterinary team.
Research Focus: Scott Kilpatrick podcast transcript
17 June 2024 - 181KB PDF
This is a transcript of the podcast 'Research Focus: Scott Kilpatrick'.
*Knowledge Award Antimicrobial Stewardship Champion 2023* Antibiotic use in surgical calf castrates: Clinical Audit
12 June 2024 - 300KB PDF
In this award winning case example, Tonia Simms from The Farm Vets at Hampden Veterinary Hospital (VetPartners), explored the use of antibiotics in surgical calf castrates. Tonia created a risk assessment and policy to reduce the routine use of prophylactic antibiotics. The actions of the team following the introduction of the interventions led to an increase in morale and confidence around not prescribing prophylactic antibiotics without compromising welfare
Contextualised care and decision making
31 May 2024 - 107KB PDF
Decision-making: evidence-based veterinary medicine (EBVM) and contextualised care
Measuring and improving our quality of care
12 April 2024 - 1170KB PDF
This flow chart shows how Quality Improvement (QI) is all part of a process, and how each QI initiative can interlink with the other to help us measure and improve our quality of care.
Veterinary Evidence Student Awards 2023 podcast
11 April 2024 - 1498KB PDF
Dr Kit Sturgess, former Editor-in-Chief of Veterinary Evidence, spoke with the two of the winners of our 2023 Veterinary Evidence Student Awards.
NASAN Benchmark Report 2023
8 April 2024 - 1714KB PDF
Benchmark report for the National Audit for Small Animal Neutering (NASAN) 2023.
We encourage sharing this information. You must give credit for using this resource, or any data from it, by citing, for example: RCVS Knowledge (2024) National Audit for Small Animal Neutering Report 2023. [Online] Available at: rcvsknowledge.org/NASAN-Report/
You should not edit this resource in any way.
This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International.
We encourage sharing this information. You must give credit for using this resource, or any data from it, by citing, for example: RCVS Knowledge (2024) National Audit for Small Animal Neutering Report 2023. [Online] Available at: rcvsknowledge.org/NASAN-Report/
You should not edit this resource in any way.
This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International.