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SRUC launches new Herd Health Planning app to connect farmers and vets
The new app stores data locally before uploading it to both BCMS and SAHPS systems when the device connects to Wi-Fi again.

Free app allows farmers to quickly record and share cattle data.

A new app created by the Veterinary Services team at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) will allow British beef suckler farmers to share real-time cattle data with veterinary surgeons while in the field.

The Herd Health Planning app is free for Scottish farmers registered to the Animal Health Planning System (SAHPS) and available to others for a small subscription. It is also connected to the British Cattle Movement Service’s tracing system (BCMS).

All data is stored locally on the app while the farmer is out in the field and then sent to both BCMS and SAHPS systems as soon as Wi-Fi or mobile data becomes available.

The app also includes an e-medicine book which complies with farm assurances and other statutory requirements.

Now downloadable for Android and Apple devices, the Herd Health Planning app allows farmers to:

  • quickly communicate herd health to their veterinary surgeon
  • download all cattle currently on the holding through BCMS
  • record bulls in and out dates
  • record movements, births and deaths and upload them to BCMS
  • record disease incidents and production data
  • record animal treatments, creating the e-medicine book.

Health planning development manager Dr Foteini Manolaraki said: “We recognise that time is a precious commodity for today’s farmers. Rather than taking notes while out in the field or in the shed and then copying them into the computer, this new app allows them to share their cattle data with their vet while on the move.

This information is then shared multiple times via BCMS and SAHPS software, which could allow earlier vet intervention if necessary.”

For more information or to sign up to the app, visit www.sahps.co.uk

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Practices urged to audit neutering data

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 RCVS Knowledge has called on vet practices to audit their post-operative neutering outcomes.

It follows the release of the 2024 NASAN benchmarking report, which collates data from neutering procedures performed on dogs, cats and rabbits.

The benchmarking report enables practices in the UK and Ireland to compare their post-operative outcomes to the national average. This includes the rate of patients lost to follow-up, which in 2024 increased to 23 per cent.

Anyone from the practice can submit the data using a free template. The deadline for next report is February 2026.

Visit the RCVS Knowledge website to complete an audit. 

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The RCVS and the Riding Establishments Subcommittee has paid tribute to well-loved veterinary surgeon and riding establishment inspector, Rebecca Hamilton-Fletcher MRCVS.

Linda Belton MRCVS, RCVS President, said: "I, along with my colleagues on the RESC, RCVS Council, RCVS Standards Committee, as well as RCVS staff, was very saddened to hear of the sudden death of Rebecca, or Becca as we knew her, last week.

"She was a true advocate for equine welfare and in her many years on the RESC worked to continually improve the quality and consistency of riding establishment inspections, all in the interests of enhanced horse welfare and rider safety."