Our Priorities for 2022/23

Good veterinary workplaces

• Menopause
• Return to work
• Veterinary pay

Future of the veterinary professions

• Veterinary legislative reform
• Under care
• Protect the veterinary nurse title (in support of BVNA)

Education and widening participation

• Extra-Mural Studies
• Diversity and inclusion

Animal Welfare

• Kept Animals Bill
• Non-stun slaughter
• Animal Welfare Strategy

Pet Animals

• Canine fertility clinics
• The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on pet health and welfare
• Novel diets for pets
• Non-traditional companion animals

Environmental sustainability

• Carbon calculator
• Small animal parasiticides
• Finfish aquaculture

Agriculture and post-Brexit

• Animal Health and Welfare Pathway
• Control and eradication of bTB
• Cages for laying hens and farrowing systems for pigs
• Import control regime
• Gene-editing and genetic technologies

Medicines

• Veterinary Medicines Regulations
• Continuing access to veterinary medicines in Northern Ireland

Find out more about the BVA's Policy priorities here. 

 

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