Gold Award recipient Ross Allan said: “The Canine Cruciate Registry is a fantastic project to take part in. As a practice we understand its importance, as a team we value it, and clients like to take part. Clients like that through contributing, they’ll be able to help improve our management of cruciate disease in other pets in the future.”

Mark Morton, clinical lead of the CCR, said: “When we first launched the registry, we didn’t know how engaged owners would be with such a novel initiative in the veterinary world, but actually, we’ve exceeded expectations and have had over 750 owners reporting on cruciate surgeries. They have completed nearly 10,000 questionnaires which highlights a real enthusiasm for helping to monitor their pet’s recovery from cruciate surgery, and at the same time drive evidence-based veterinary medicine.

“This data will be great for our first report, which will be released in autumn.”

The report will allow practitioners that have contributed data to compare their data to the benchmark to assess their performance.

The CCR remains available for new contributors, regardless of the method they use for cruciate surgery.

To find out more and get involved, visit their website.

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