Resumen de Veterinary benevolent fund: RCVS funding for health support programme
THE Board of the Veterinary Benevolent Fund (VBF) would like to express its gratitude to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons following the recent announcement that the College intends to double its funding to the charity's health support programme to £500,000 over the next five years [see page 212 of this issue].
The support that the Veterinary Surgeons' Health Support Programme offers for issues related to alcohol, drugs, eating disorders and other health problems is highly confidential and, therefore, difficult to discuss publicly, but currently over 200 members of the profession are receiving support from the programme (mostly for mood disorders) and 2014 saw a rise of 28 per cent in the number of requests for assistance by the service.
