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BVRA, BVA and BVNA unite for communication webinar
The associations will discuss how each team can contribute to fostering improved communication.
The collaboration aims to improve practice culture.

Three veterinary associations will collaborate in a webinar that aims to improve communication across the wider veterinary team.

The British Veterinary Receptionist Association (BVRA), British Veterinary Association (BVA) and the British Veterinary Nursing Association (BVNA) will unite for a webinar titled ‘Synergistic practice relations: how can your team improve their internal communication?’.

The webinar will reflect on the results of BVRA’s annual survey of veterinary receptionists, following preliminary results suggesting that confusion and frustration within veterinary teams is often caused by shortfalls in communication.

The associations will discuss how each team can contribute to fostering improved communication, and will be answering pre-submitted questions.

The discussion will also explore the role that relationships and communication play in a thriving practice culture, and how this contributes to patient safety, clinical outcomes and team wellbeing.

The webinar, due to be recorded and published in Autumn 2023, will include:
  • BVRA president Jaime Kiem, junior vice president Kayleigh Walker and council member Danielle Bowers
  • BVA president Malcolm Morley
  • BVNA president Charlotte Pace.
 
BVRA president Jaime Kiem said: “We are delighted to have the opportunity to work alongside the BVA and BVNA in what is a first for the profession, a webinar where all three associations are coming together to discuss the importance of internal practice relationships and to explore ways in which to improve communication amongst the veterinary team.

"BVRA is often asked the question ‘how can we communicate better as a team?’ and we hope that this webinar will help to address the importance of communication as a team and how to achieve this.”

Questions can be submitted for the webinar here, before 5pm on Friday, 8 September.
 
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It costs the charity £6,000 per day to continue its work.

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A case of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been detected in commercial poultry at a premises near Rosudgeon, Cornwall.

All poultry on the infected site will be humanely culled, and a 3km protection zone and 10km surveillance zone have been put in place. Poultry and other captive birds in the 3km protection zone must be housed.

The case is the second avian flu case confirmed in commercial poultry this month. The H5N5 strain was detected in a premises near Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, in early November. Before then, the disease had not been confirmed in captive birds in England since February.

The UK chief veterinary officer has urged bird keepers to remain alert and practise robust biosecurity.

A map of the disease control zones can be found here.