VetNI

Veterinary Northern Ireland

Why not climb Slieve Donard and help support Vetlife and Vet Support NI?

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Join SPVS President Peter Brown as he scales the highest peaks in the UK to raise money for Vetlife and Vet Support NI.

Peter would love vets (SPVS members and non-members too!) to join him in supporting Vetlife or Vet Support NI on any (or all!) of his walks or just to get together afterwards.

Walbury Hill – Sunday 13th May, Kinder Scout – June
Snowdonia – July, Scafell Pike – July
Ben Nevis – August, High Willhays – September
Slieve Donard – Friday 12th October (AVSPNI Autumn Conference – time to be confirmed)

For full details visit www.spvs.org.uk/presidents-peaks/

Donate to Vetlife www.justgiving.com/fundraising/peter-brown69 or Donate to Vet support NI- www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/vetsupportni

Registration is NOW OPEN for AVSPNI Summer outing on Wednesday 20th June!

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Email info@vetni.co.uk to reserve your place! Free for ALL AVSPNI members/ £30 for non members (dinner included)

Click here to view full details for this event

 

A tour of manufacturing facilities at Norbrook Laboratories

Norbrook is a leading global provider of veterinary pharmaceuticals enhancing the health of farm and companion animals.
Its portfolio of more than 300 trusted products includes antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, anthelmintics and intramammaries which are currently distributed in more than 100 countries worldwide.

We probably use Norbrook products everyday but do we ever think about how they are made? Come along and find out!

Tour Norbrook’s world class manufacturing facilities
Hear about new product development
Get a glimpse into the complexities of drug licensing

plus guest speaker Professor Grace Mulcahy delivering a lecture entitled
Not just a fluke –  The trouble with Fasciola and Calicophoron in grazing animals
Grace is Full Professor of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin. She leads an
active research group with interests in helminth immunobiology, using ruminant fasciolosis as a model system to understand helminth-mediated immunoregulation. Her group also works to develop effective vaccination strategies to protect ruminants against liver fluke infection.
More recently, she has developed interests in relationships between gut helminths, the microbiome and inflammation.

Followed by a three course dinner at Rice’s Hotel, Poyntzpass

A very successful and well supported Spring Meeting for NIVA with speaker Des Rice

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On 3rd May NIVA members turned out to the Seagoe Hotel, Portadown for the NIVA Spring Meeting.  Following the business meeting Vets, Nurses, Practice managers and their friends and family arrived to hear Dr Des Rice give an excellent, very practical presentation teaching five useful skills to help you cope in life.  Everyone in attendance seemed to really enjoy trying out some of these techniques in the practical demonstrations that Des included in his talk.  Des is a partner in the coaching business CCO, an acronym for Creating Collaborative Organisations.  He coaches individual Executives and teams to become the best they can be.  He gives clients the tools to modify attitudes and behaviours that cause unworkability and underperformance for themselves, their team and the business.  Frequently this involves helping individuals deal with stress, overwhelm, anger, anxiety, panic, depression and even suicide.  Find out more about CCO by visiting the CCO website.

Des also introduced some of the Vet Support (NI) colleagues and demonstrated how they might support members of the wider profession.   The Vet Support (NI) Team have been trained with a variety of supportive measures including coping skills, reflective listening, goal setting and other coaching techniques.   Visit www.vetsupportni.co.uk for confidential support for the profession in Northern Ireland

Some of the delegates are pictured below practicing the 7-11 breathing technique, one of the many ways of helping to reduce stress and stay calm.  If you missed the opportunity to attend this very useful talk and would like to find out more about the techniques taught on the night you can find a list of tips on the http://www.vetsupportni.co.uk/tips/ 

Last chance for great savings on registration for AVSPNI Spring conference! Early Bird Ends midnight tomorrow. Book NOW to avoid disappointment.

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The early bird offer will be your last chance to avail of the significant savings on registration for AVSPNI Spring Conference.  First class CPD for both vets and vet nurses, we have a packed programme with great speakers lined up along with our legendary party night!

Click here to view brochure

Click here to download Registration form and return via email to info@vetni.co.uk to book now.

AVSPNI Conference speaker – Norman Johnston – Specialist in Veterinary Dentistry

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Norman Johnston is a graduate of the R (D) SVS, University of Edinburgh. He is the clinical director of DentalVets – a referral only dental and oral surgical practice near Edinburgh.
You don’t want to miss the great line up of dentistry lectures from Norman at the AVSPNI Spring conference. Follow the link to check out the programme for yourself.

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Click here to download Registration form

Meet Terry Emmerson – Speaker at the AVSPNI Spring Conference 25th & 26th May!

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Terry has wide experience of all aspects of surgery and a particular interest in oncological surgery, he became recognised as a European Specialist in Small Animal Surgery in 1999 and a recognised RCVS specialist in 2006 … Read his full profile and see what lectures you would like to attend on the conference brochure CLICK HERE

Click here to download Registration form
Click the links below to read some of Terry’s articles:
http://www.theveterinaryexpert.com/author/terryemmerson/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jsap.12286