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BRITISH VETERINARY ASSOCIATION

President Dr F. M. Scott-Park

Past-President Dr R. M. McCracken

President-Elect Mr D. F. Catlow

ADDRESS
7 Mansfield Street, London W1G 9NQ
Telephone 020 7636 6541
Fax 020 7436 2970
e-mail: bvahq{at}bva.co.uk
www.bva.co.uk

Headquarters activities

President's diary
The BVA President's activities in the week ending November 19 included:

• Attending a meeting of the Dog Theft Action Group - a multiagency group including representatives from major animal charities, the BSAVA and the RCVS - to discuss issues such as dog identification.
  
• Attending a session at Westminster at which the DEFRA minister Mr Ben Bradshaw gave evidence to the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee on the Animal Welfare Bill and avian influenza.
  
• Giving interviews to newspapers and broadcast media on avian influenza.
  
• Preparing a briefing note for the House of Lords' debates on avian influenza and the Animal Welfare Bill.
  
• Drafting a letter to the State Veterinary Service on the issue of LVI fees.
  
• Attending the RCVS cocktail party and dinner.
  
• Chairing a veterinary nursing review group meeting, at which issues discussed included funding for veterinary nurse training, work-based learning, sector skills agreements, and medicines legislation as it relates to the advertising of POMs to veterinary nurses.
  

Policy matters
Last week was particularly busy on the parliamentary front, with the Conservative peer and BVA Honorary Associate Baroness Byford having initiated three debates on matters of concern to the profession - avian influenza, the Supply of Relevant Veterinary Medicinal Products Order 2005 and the use of lay testers for bovine tuberculosis (TB) testing.

The BVA provided briefings for all three debates to a cross-section of its parliamentary Honorary Associates, as well as other interested peers.

Transcripts of the full debates can be accessed via the `Parliamentary News' link in the Advice Centre of the membersonly section of the BVA's website, at www.bva.co.uk/members/advice. Summaries of the debates are available in the Policy Diary, at www.bva.co.uk/policy/lobbying/policy_diary.asp

Media inquiries
Media inquiries dealt with by the BVA during the week ending November 19 concerned a number of matters including avian influenza and the deaths of birds in quarantine, bovine TB, the risk of foot-and-mouth disease being imported from Brazil, charging for veterinary prescriptions, the business side of veterinary practice, and the effects of passive smoking on pets.

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