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THE CHANGING FACE OF VETERINARY PRACTICE Chris Parker BVM&S DBR MRCVS The Changing Job description • 24 hour cover • supermarket vets • all species cover No of farm practices • farm practice or mixed practice • only 340 farm vets left • the future Changing Species • pet pigs • rare breeds • Llama etc Changing Breeds • Outshorthorn,Ayreshire • out/on- Channel Island • Holstein Changing equipment • calving • Diagnostic • Laboratory Changing equipment • calving Calving Ultrasound Scanners x-ray equipment x-ray equipment Laboratory How has farm work changed WHAT HAS CHANGED? • • • • • Farm size Farm distance Nature of work Ministry work Diseases Farm size & Distance Nature of the work • • • • fire-brigade v consultancy mastitis work ‘contract work’ Changing Disease patterns • • • • New diseases Gone and come again Different syndromes stress induced New Diseases Gone and come again! New Syndromes Stress induced What has changed most!