A message to our learning community
After much consideration, we’ve made the decision to close the Improve Veterinary Practice platform on 13 January 2026. Improve Veterinary Practice was built to support vets and nurses at every stage of their career, and while this chapter is ending, a new one is starting at Improve Veterinary Education. We couldn’t be more grateful for the community you’ve helped us build and hope to see you on this exciting next step.
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Thank you for an amazing CPD journey!
What does this mean for you?
You’ll be able to access the platform, and all the content it has to offer, until 13 January 2026.
We recommend downloading any course completion certificates you’d like to keep. You can do this by going to My Dashboard and clicking My Progress, then you can click the certificate icon next to the short course you’ve completed.
We want to keep supporting you on your CPD journey.
This transition opens up new ways for us to support you even more on your CPD journey and throughout your veterinary career. Although the Improve Veterinary Practice platform will be closing, you can access:
Improve Veterinary Education: In addition to industry-leading postgraduate qualifications, your new home for clinical expertise, webinars and articles, alongside the latest industry news. Find out more about Improve Veterinary Education.
Top speakers to showcase innovation at CPD congress
VetsNorth is taking place on 12-13 June at the MMU Business School in Manchester. Veterinary Practice readers can save 15 percent at registration with the code VPMAG15.
The small animal surgery, small animal medicine and veterinary nursing lecture theatres at VetsNorth 2019
are set to feature an unmissable programme of strong content across a range of subjects.
Rather than feeling lost in the crowd, the friendly regional scale of VetsNorth provides plenty of opportunities for face-to-face engagement with speakers, allowing you to seek real, individual advice on hot topics and cases you are facing in practice.
The event this year centres on three major pillars – the endocrine system, emergency medicine and surgery and emergency and critical care nursing. Attendees are looking forward to an event packed with cutting edge CPD lectures, Q&A opportunities with world-class speakers as well as social networking breaks to forge strong relationships with new and existing contacts.
The VetsNorth speakers have been selected for their outstanding expertise to ensure that you will benefit from the latest insight and practical advice on each of the programme topics.
As well as obtaining CPD hours, VetsNorth attendees will gain an in depth understanding of how to apply advanced techniques in practice, together with a broad range of knowledge in each topic to boost their performance and confidence going forward in their career.
The VetsNorth CPD programme can be viewed here and tickets can be purchased here. Readers of Veterinary Practice can benefit from a 15 percent discount on all ticket types by using code VPMAG15 at checkout.
Some speakers at VetsNorth 2019 include:
Scott Rutherford is a RCVS recognised and European Veterinary Specialist in small animal surgery. He has published and lectured widely in the UK, Europe, USA and Australia. He has recently established his own surgical referral hospital, frank. Pet Surgeons. based in Leeds.Bob Partridge is a Diplomate of the European Veterinary Dental College, a RCVS specialist in veterinary dentistry and the Director of VetDentist. He was a founding member of the British Veterinary Dental Association.Jon is currently a senior lecturer at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Science in Edinburgh. He will be giving lectures on surgical treatments for feline hyperthyroidism and surgical techniques for canines.Molly specialises in rabbit medicine and surgery. Molly has contributed material for several books including the BSAVA Manual of Reptiles, Nursing Exotic Pets and Wildlife, Rabbit Medicine and Rabbit Surgery.. Molly currently heads the Exotics Referral Service at Rutland House Veterinary Referrals in Merseyside.Mike is a RCVS recognised and European Specialist in small animal medicine. He has received multiple awards from the BSAVA, WSAVA and Kennel Club for the advancement of small animal medicine and canine welfare. Mike will be lecturing in endocrine and metabolic disorders.David has authored numerous books and book chapters in ophthalmology and lectured widely on the subject. He is currently the Director of Studies in Veterinary Medicine and Pathology, college lecturer in pathology and associate university lecturer in veterinary ophthalmology at the University of Cambridge.Georgie Hollis is the founder of the Veterinary Would Library and Bandaging Angels. Georgie and her team at the Veterinary Wound Library deliver tailored in-house CPD to help practices refine their dressing selections and master bandaging techniques.Emma Milne is a vet, author and animal welfare advocate. She has written nine books on pet animal welfare, equine welfare and pedigree health problems.Carolyn Crowe is a training consultant for VDS Training. She will be giving a lecture on how to resolve conflict in practice.
