Alistair Gibson and Paul Crawford will be delivering a full days CPD on Cardiology and Anaesthesia on the 21st September at the Dunsilly Hotel, Antrim.  The title of the lectures will include ‘feline cardiology, Anaesthesia complications, Traditional & new developments in medical treatment of heart failure, Cardiology pulmonary resuscitation’.  There will also be an interactive case based section.

Alistair will be delivering the cardiology lectures and Alistair’s areas of interest include small animal cardiothoracic medicine and surgery and diagnostic ultrasound, particularly interventional cardiology, thoracoscopy & thoracoscopic surgery. He was one of the first vets in practice in GB and Ireland to perform pacemaker Implantation and balloon valvuloplasty procedures in small animals.

Paul will be speaking on Anaesthesia.  Paul runs his own anaesthesia consultancy business providing clinical services as well as CPD nationally and internationally. He also undertakes some first opinion work on a locum/short term basis. Other professional interests include invasive cardiology and veterinary nursing education.

More information will be coming soon.  Keep an eye on our website, facebook and twitter for details of registration

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The Milksure training which is taking place on 22nd August 2018 is now full.  There is a cancellation list and if you wish to be put on this, contact the VetNI office asap.  There was a quite high demand for this course and due to this AVSPNI have decided to run the course again at the Slieve Donard on Friday 12th October where we will be holding our AVSPNI Autumn Conference.  Why not make the most of your time there and stay on at the Slieve Donard and enjoy a few days of top quality CPD at AVSPNI Autumn Conference following the training!  If you would like to be put on the list for Octobers training, contact VetNI to register.

The course entails ‘Understanding medicine residues in milk and how the MilkSure course works’.  Eventually ALL farmers will have to undertake milksure training and it is important that Vets delivering Milksure training to clients must be familiar with it and well-prepared to deliver it effectively.  Owen Atkinson is a specialist in cattle health and production and will be our speaker for both our training sessions. 

For more information of how to register and the programme for the day Click Here!

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AVSPNI would like to extend a special thanks and a warm welcome to our Conference Sponsors who will be a main part of our bustling trade hall at AVSPNI spring conference in the Lamon Hotel on the 25th/26th May.

To see our conference sponsors and many other trade stands along with our top quality lectures, all you have to do is fill in our registration form, take a photo/scan it and send it to [email protected] to register.

For a registration form click here!
To look at our full conference brochure click here!

This year we are ‘talking heads’ with our jam packed line up of top quality nursing lectures focusing on Dental, Oral, Maxillofacial and airway cases in both cats and dogs.

Lecture topics will consist of Claire Bloor covering Dentistry in 3 parts, she will also be delving into the topic of ‘anaesthetic considerations for dental, oral, Maxillofacial and airway surgeries. Norman Johnston will be focusing on the nurses role in regards to ‘resetting your dental compass’ and Lynne Kerrigan will be lecturing on such subjects as ‘theatre practice for lower airway/thoracic, amongst others. Come and see Wendy Nevins on Friday afternoons lecture ‘veterinary Nurses – shaping our future’.

For more information on our nursing lectures and the topics click here!
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From Monday 21st May Midday an extra administration charge of £25 will incur.  To make sure that your registration form reaches us on time take a photo/scan and send it to [email protected] before Monday midday.

This year the demand for a space in our trade hall at conference has been astonishing!  We have 32 top quality trade companies who are looking forward to displaying their products and meeting old and new faces at AVSPNI autumn conference this weekend at the beautiful setting of the Mournes at the Slieve Donard, Newcastle.  Our conference partner this year is MSD and our conference sponsors are BCF Technology, Boehringer Ingelheim, Norbrook, vetoquinol, VSSCo, and Zoetis.

Other trade stands that will be at our conference this year include KRKA, Dechra, VSSCo, Vetoquinol, Agriapet, Elanco, Ceva, Independent Vet Care, Vestaplas, Hipra, Ulster Bank, St Francis Group, VBS Direct, Bayer, Duggan Vet Supplies, Lloyd & Cowan, Provita, Petplan, Kruuse, Abaxis, Hills, Comtag, Vet Insights, Net-ex, Shire Veterinary Insurance  and NI Veterinary Today.

We have a great trade hall this year and we know it will be a productive weekend for all!!

Paul Crawford, a Northern Ireland Vet who won Omagh day’s ‘Frank Mullan’ Trophy for his talk on ‘Save money and the Environment – Anaesthesia’, will be lecturing on the topic of ‘Farm animal anaesthesia tips’ at conference on Sunday. After graduating from the Royal Veterinary College Paul completed his RCVS Anaesthesia Certificate. He has worked in University Teaching Hospitals in the UK, Ireland and Canada. Currently Paul is based in Northern Ireland where he provides an anaesthesia consultancy service as well as undertaking some surgical work in first opinion practice.

Catherine Forsythe, our speaker on ‘Pathology in Practice’ will be starting our Sunday morning lecture programme for L/A improvers.  She will be taking a selection of interesting and unusual post mortem cases. Catherine qualified from the RVC in 2006 and spent seven years in mixed practice before joining AFBI in 2013 as a veterinary pathologist.  Her caseload involves all species from the smallest birds to the largest sea mammals and everything in between, often in the same day.   Her main interest is in farm animal pathology, but with a large local poultry industry she is also enjoying developing her expertise in this area.

For more information and our other speakers at AVSPNI Autumn conference click here!

For a conference registration form click here!

Meet Colin Mason who is coming to take some large animal lectures at our AVSPNI Autumn conference!  Colin works for SAC Veterinary Services based in Dumfries.  As well as working as part of the team at the Dumfries Disease Surveillance Centre carrying our disease investigation and surveillance activities he is also involved with dairy research and herd health work at the Dairy Research and Innovation Centre based at Crichton Royal Farm in Dumfries.  His main interests are young stock health and lameness in dairy cows.  On Saturdays lecture programme Colin will be delivering lectures in our L/A improver stream with topics such as ‘Mycoplasma bovis infections in cattle herds’, Field post mortem workshop for practitioners’ and a lecture on ‘Adult cow pneumonia problems’ in our L/A refresher stream.

If you would like to hear Colin and our other top quality speakers, come visit us at AVSPNI Autumn conference on the 6th-8th October 17!

For more information on the lecture programme and our speakers click here!
For a registration form click here!

This year for our AVSPNI autumn conference we have done things a little differently!  We still have a little glitz and glamour of our gala dinner as previously!  But this year we have it ALL covered!  Firstly we are privileged to have the very humorous ‘bard of Armagh’ and for those who have never heard this you are in for a treat!  If you want to be the one to sit in your seat and have a chat with other delegates after a day of CPD, then we have a little jazz background music from one of the most talented swing singers in Northern Ireland!  For those looking  to impress their colleagues with their blackjack skills (or lack of), we have a casino night planned alongside the jazz!  Not to mention the fantastic 5 course meal with wine.  This is one autumn conference gala you will not want to miss out on.  Tickets are selling faster for this then any other conference! 

If you have forgotten to include your gala dinner ticket on your form, just give us a shout in the VETNI office and we will sort that for you.  Email us on [email protected]

For more information on our conference and speakers visit our conference brochure

For a registration form for conference click here

***Tomorrow (20th Sept) is the last day of the early bird discounted rate***