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Tying in staff appraisals with personal and practice goals

Staff appraisals are of course a great opportunity for your team members to talk about their own difficulties, challenges, and how to move past them; as well as their goals and what they want to achieve in the future; however they’re also a great opportunity to consider where you want your practice to be going, and how those wonderful and gifted team members can help you to get there!

Our Christmas Competition – ‘Pet Pressies’

Our Christmas competition (2016) entitled ‘Pet Pressies’, encouraged entrants to share their ideas for Christmas gift ideas for their pet/s.

Profession requested to participate in study on informed consent

Veterinary Surgeon Carol Gray, undertaking her PhD in informed consent at Birmingham University, is requesting interviewees to help her obtain more information in this vital area of professional practice.

Participant account: Practical Infection Control

Veterinary surgeon and practice director, Martina Eyre-Brook, provides us with an account of her experiences on our Practical Infection Control course. Martina’s practice went on to achieve an ‘outstanding’ in the RCVS Practice Standards Scheme, which of course includes an element covering infection control.

Nurse Clinics – a veterinary director’s take on the course

The first intake of the RACE-accredited ‘Patient-Friendly Practice’ course that runs as a collaboration between ONCORE and VetBloom recently completed, with some positive feedback received from the participants.