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Notifiable and Exotic Disease Course

A training course run jointly by VLA and IAH will be held between 27th June and 1st July.

IAH experts will be talking on Foot and Mouth Disease, Bluetongue, African Horse Sickness, African Swine Fever, Capripox viruses, Rinderpest, Rift Valley Fever and Peste des Petits Ruminants.

The Notifiable and Exotic Disease Training Course is designed for government veterinarians and aims to provide a global perspective of notifiable animal disease and the latest developments in their detection and control.

Current recognition and diagnostic information for important diseases, animal emergency response principles, economic perspectives of disease introduction are provided from a team of experts in their respective fields. The training aims to prepare field veterinarians in their role as first responders in the event of the introduction or emergence of a notifiable disease in Great Britain.

There will be the chance to talk with the speakers during the course and there will also be many opportunities to network with other government veterinarians and scientists.

Over 26 notifiable diseases will be covered including:
Avian influenza
African horse sickness
Contagious equine metritis
Classical swine fever
Enzootic bovine leucosis
Equine viral arteritis
Foot and mouth disease
Rabies
Tuberculosis
West Nile virus

For more information email events@vla.defra.gsi.gov.uk

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FIVP launches CMA remedies survey

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 FIVP has shared a survey, inviting those working in independent practice to share their views on the CMA's proposed remedies.

The Impact Assessment will help inform the group's response to the CMA, as it prepares to submit further evidence to the Inquiry Group. FIVP will also be attending a hearing in November.

Data will be anonymised and used solely for FIVP's response to the CMA. The survey will close on Friday, 31 October 2025. 

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CMA to host webinar exploring provisional decisions

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is to host a webinar for veterinary professionals to explain the details of its provisional decisions, released on 15 October 2025.

The webinar will take place on Wednesday, 29 October 2025 from 1.00pm to 2.00pm.

Officials will discuss the changes which those in practice may need to make if the provisional remedies go ahead. They will also share what happens next with the investigation.

The CMA will be answering questions from the main parties of the investigation, as well as other questions submitted ahead of the webinar.

Attendees can register here before Wednesday, 29 October at 11am. Questions must be submitted before 10am on 27 October.

A recording of the webinar will be accessible after the event.