While it is commonly known that vet surgeons have one of the most demanding jobs, veterinary nurses are often overlooked when understanding the stress that those who work in the industry are under. As a result of this, amongst issues such as pay there has been an increase in the number of nurses reporting high ...
While the coronavirus pandemic has created a whole host of issues for the veterinary industry globally, the UK has faced a new number of challenges following Brexit. According to iNews, as pet numbers have started to rise, the UK’s exit from the European Union, which has seen the implementation of new health certificate rules, has ...
The coronavirus pandemic has birthed a number of challenges for every industry, not least veterinarians. As there has been a rise in stress levels in vets, delays caused by lockdowns has led to a decline in treatments for pets, particularly vaccinations and check-ups, which has created a huge backlog. While this backlog in treatments is ...
The latest data from over 800 companion animal veterinarians in the US has found that among employed vets, those with less experience tend to work on average around four hours per week more than those who have worked around 10 times as many years as a trained veterinarian. Over the course of a year that ...
Which veterinary publications, magazines, online publications, apps or forums do you follow? We asked this question to gauge what vets’ channels and sources vets are currently using to access information about the veterinary world. This is clearly not an exact representation of readership as a vet can follow a publication regardless of how may times, ...
It’s fair to say that the pandemic has caused stress for us all. It’s the caring professions, though, who have probably had the most direct and heavy impact on their stress levels. Veterinary work is often not given the acknowledgement it deserves as a caring profession. In this short blog piece we’ll use data from ...
Here is the second release of the long awaited VetsSurvey 2020 data. Where the first release was focused on the impact of the pandemic, this report covers other aspects of veterinary life (because it’s not all about Covid-19!). In this data deck you can find: What veterinary professionals and practices look like across the world What ...
In March 2020 we embarked on a small project to track the impact of the pandemic on our Vetspanel members. We resolved to continue this for “as long as the pandemic lasts.” Proof that researchers should not speak in haste. In December 2020 we concluded the last wave of this project. In partnership with WSAVA, ...
To access our latest COVID-19 tracker survey reports, click on the link below: Report Wave 1Report Wave 2Report Wave 3Report Wave 4Report Wave 5: Part 1Report Wave 5: Part 2
Since 2011 we have been measuring how well veterinarians have been doing financially compared to the previous year. Up to 2012 the number doing worse outnumbered those doing better, but that all changed and peaked in 2015 when almost 50% of vets reported to be doing better. After that there was a slow decline and ...
