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Vet nurse praised for awareness work
Dot Creighton
Dot Creighton is the winner of this year's VN Golden Jubilee Award.
Awarded VN Golden Jubilee Award

Dot Creighton is the winner of this year's VN Golden Jubilee Award, the RCVS has announced.

Dot, a former president of the BVNA, will be presented with the award at the RCVS Day in July.

During her presidential year (2003-2004), Dot devised the concept of VN Awareness Day as a way of making animal owners and local communities more aware of veterinary nurses and what they do.

Subsequently this developed into an awareness week, and now National VN Awareness Month, which takes place every May.

The RCVS say this legacy was one of the main reasons why Dot was chosen to win the award.

Kathy Kissick, chair of VN Council, said: “Dot has worked tirelessly to raise awareness of the veterinary nurse both within the profession and with the general public. She has always supported the student veterinary nurse in training and leads by example at all times inspiring nurses to stay in or return to practice even when life changes their circumstances.
 
“Dot is an inspiration to many, many nurses and always commits 100% to the welfare of the animals in her care and to her clients. I congratulate her on achieving this award.”

The VN Golden Jubilee Award was launched in 2011 to mark the 50th anniversary of the first RCVS training scheme.

Dot was nominated for the Award by Lindsey Raven-Emrich, a fellow veterinary nurse, who praised her 'enthusiasm and input' to the profession.

Delighted at winning the Award, Dot said: “It couldn’t be a more exciting time to train to be a veterinary nurse – we have a robust training scheme, we are pushing and advancing the boundaries of veterinary nursing practice, we are seeing veterinary nurses branch out into different fields of clinical practice and, most importantly, the new Royal Charter officially recognises veterinary nursing as a regulated profession.”
 

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Strangles survey seeks views of horse owners

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 With Strangles Awareness Week just around the corner (5-11 May), vets are being encouraged to share a survey about the disease with their horse-owning clients.

The survey, which has been designed by Dechra, aims to raise awareness of Strangles and promote best practices to prevent its transmission. It includes questions about horse owners' experiences of strangles, together with preventative measures and vaccination.

Respondents to the survey will be entered into a prize draw to win two VIP tickets to Your Horse Live 2025. To access the survey, click here 

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DAERA to reduce BVD 'grace period'

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From 1 May 2025, herd keepers will have seven days to cull any BVD positive or inconclusive animals to avoid restrictions being applied to their herd.

It follows legislation introduced on 1 February, as DAERA introduces herd movement restrictions through a phased approach. Herd keepers originally had 28 days to cull BVD positive or inconclusive animals.

DAERA says that, providing herd keepers use the seven-day grace period, no herds should be restricted within the first year of these measures.

Additional measures, which will target herds with animals over 30 days old that haven't been tested for BVD, will be introduced from 1 June 2025.

More information is available on the DAERA website.