BEVA pod

BEVApod Newsflash - March 2025

A rundown of the most important news from the last month that you need to know as a veterinary professional including:

• Back in the Saddle

• BEVA Grand Prix

• Horse Trust's Healthiest Body Condition Awards

• SPVS Salary Questionnaire

• Voconiq Report

• BEVA Congress 2025 - 10th-13th September in Birmingham

• MonitorME

• EIDS

• BEVA Trust volunteering opportunities

• BEVA CPD

• BEVA Congress 2025

• Equine Veterinary Journal Podcasts

• Pharmaceutical treatment of equine glandular gastric disease: A contextualised review of recent developments’. Rendle

• Equine Veterinary Education Podcast

• 'Clinical and morphological features of corneal lymphoma in 26 horses (27 eyes)’ by Morris et al.

BEVApod Newsflash: February 2025

A rundown of the most important news from the last month that you need to know as a veterinary professional including:

Links

• BEVA News

• BEVA Congress 2025 - 10th-13th September in Birmingham

• RCVS Finance Team: finance@rcvs.org.uk or 020 7202 0722.

• AMTRA survey

• FEI HorseApp Vaccination Module

• MonitorME

• FEEVA

• National Equine Forum (NEF)

• EIDS

• BEVA CPD

• BEVA Trust volunteering opportunities

• February EVJ In Conversation Podcast

• Kate Allen's article: Ethical issues concerning UK veterinary surgeons practicing in equine sports medicine

• Hilary Clayton's article: Facial pressure beneath a cavesson noseband adjusted to different tightness levels during standing and chewing

• February EVJ On the Hoof podcast

• Ogden, Winderick and Stack's article: Computed tomography of the equine caudal spine and pelvis. Pathological findings in 56 clinical cases (2018–2023)

BEVApod Life: From Hong Kong to The Gambia.. give it a go with Hamish Leslie

Hamish is clearly not afraid to challenge his expectations, nor take a punt on an opportunity when it arises... but he's made sure he realises the advantages whilst accepting the challenges and has seen all walks of equine veterinary life, from multi-million pound racehorses to working equids. Far from narrowing down his career choices, this has driven him to maintain the spread of opportunities in front of him and to never pass an open door without at least looking in.

 

Links

• Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust

• BEVA Trust

BEVApod Newsflash: January 2025

A rundown of the most important news from the last month that you need to know as a veterinary professional including:

• Voconiq Report

• National Equine Forum 2025

• EIDS

• CCU: Bridle Fit with Russell MacKechnie-Guire

• EVJ’s January On the Hoof podcast

• BEVApod Life: Menopause: supporting the women in our profession with Liz Barton and Gemma Dransfield

• BEVA CPD

• BEVA Trust volunteering opportunities

BEVApod Life: Menopause: supporting the women in our profession with Liz Barton and Gemma Dransfield

Menopause is an increasingly hot topic for the general population, but there are aspects of equine veterinary work which can make elements of this normal ageing process more challenging for those affected and the people around them. Liz talks us through the basic understanding which we all need in order to fully support our workforce during those times, and Gemma relays how far-reaching the impact of menopause is, from the very subtle to the more obvious!

 

Links

• Wellvet resources

• ‘Medical misogyny’ is leaving women in unnecessary pain and undiagnosed for years

• BVA menopause hub

• Veterinary Menopause Chats

• Wellvet menopause video

• Dr Morton's

• Newson Health

• Balance app (symptom tracker)

BEVApod Newsflash: December 2024

A rundown of the most important news from the last month that you need to know as a veterinary professional including:

• RCVS workforce model highlights need for more vets working in public health

• VMD seizes over 13,000 unauthorised horse medicines sold illegally online

• Report suspected breached of the AMRs here: 01932 338338 or online.

• How British racing’s data-driven Racing Risk Models are being used to improve outcomes for racehorses.

• The BHA has announced changes to the Rules of Racing, which have been approved by the BHA Board.

• VetCT X-pert Radiation Safety Centre

• National Equine Forum 2025

BEVApod Focus: Equine infectious diseases... have you caught up? With Kate Blakeman

BEVA's Junior Vice President, Kate Blakeman, talks us through the the new Infectious Diseases hub on the BEVA website. Celia Marr chairs the BEVA Equine Infectious Diseases Group, which worked on this treasure trove of resources which helps vets and nurses out in practice. There are resources for clients also, which vets and nurses can share with the touch of a button. More resources are being worked on and the hub will evolve over time to b your one-stop-shop for clinical sign radars to consensus building tools, endemic to exotic, and biosecurity to vaccines.

 

Links

1. BEVA Equine Infectious Diseases hub

BEVApod Focus: The gut microbiome, horse health and performance with Chris Proudman

This year Professor Chris Proudman published the first paper to demonstrate associations between a foal’s gut microbiome and its future athletic performance and its future respiratory health. The emerging fields of the "omics" has been one of the most exciting branches of science in recent years. Whilst we're a little way off understanding exactly how to capitalise on this in practice, it's already evident that interventions such as antibiotics and probiotics could potentially have far-reaching impacts on future health and performance.

 

Links

• Early-life gut bacterial community structure predicts disease risk and athletic performance in horses bred for racing (Leng, J., Moller-Levet, C., Mansergh, R.I. et al. 2024)

• Horse Microbiome Research Group

• Alborada Well Foal Study

• The ALBORADA Trust

• Horserace Betting Levy Board (HBLB)