Partnership In Animal Welfare - New BVA/RSPCA Memorandum Of Understanding
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14th December, 2006 00h00
Veterinary practices have been alerted to watch out for the latest version of the BVA/RSPCA Memorandum of Understanding, currently being issued to practices. The new booklet, designed to clarify arrangements between vets in private practice and the RSPCA, aims to try to ensure that appropriate professional treatment is available for all sick and injured owned, wild and stray animals which may not otherwise receive treatment.
As the BVA President David Catlow and RSPCA Director General Jackie Ballard point out in the letter accompanying the agreement, “the BVA and RSPCA have long worked in partnership to safeguard and improve the welfare of animals in England and Wales. More often than not this works at local level when individual RSPCA branches work with local veterinary practices, but of course the national organisations are also heavily involved at all levels.”
The latest version brings up to date the arrangements set out in the agreement first entered into in 1939 and last revised in 2001. Subsequent changes to the organisational structure of the RSPCA and the establishment of a National Control Centre along with consequential revised procedures and new telephone numbers are included, as are new arrangements for Initial Emergency Treatment and a newly agreed maximum cost. The booklet also contains essential facts about how the RSPCA operates as well as setting out the basis for collaboration at a local level.
In commending the agreement to the profession, both the BVA and the RSPCA express their “hope that it will assist in developing our partnership in animal welfare”.
The agreement can be downloaded from the BVA website at
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