The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)’s Vet Gateway provides a publicly available portal for vets (including official veterinarians (OVs)), animal health paraprofessionals (AHPs) and food competent certifying officers (FCCOs) to access APHAs services, systems, operating instructions, guidance, news and intelligence on new and re-emerging animal health threats.
The Vet Gateway is a legacy application, and the software used to manage the content of the website is no longer supported. APHA is very limited in what they can do with/to or change on the website. If APHA continue to use this legacy application, there are risks that it will stop working. Therefore, an alternative mechanism for delivering the information on the Vet Gateway is required.
The majority of the existing content will be moving to GOV.UK and numerous improvements made to its functionality. This will:
- Improve stability to ensure continuation of all current functionality.
- Improve navigation and include a search option, making content easier to find.
- Provide a modern look and feel that is intuitive to use and understand.
- Ensure full compliance with all required standards such as accessibility.
- Enable efficient content management and communication to ensure up-to-date and relevant information is provided.
- Enable alerts when existing content is updated, or new content is added
The content is being moved in phases, the first of which was published on GOV.UK in August and APHA hope to have completed this work by October 2024.
Alternative solutions have been found for any content that is not suitable for GOV.UK. Users will be notified of where to find information once content has moved.
More information about the content changes is provided on the Vet Gateway.
If you have any queries about the changes or if you identify any broken links following content migration, including from the Improve International training courses to Vet Gateway please contact webmaster@apha.gov.uk.
