Resumen de Problems with retention?

• A STUDY on retaining vets in farm animal practice would always be of interest, but one summarised in this week's Veterinary Record seems particularly pertinent at a time when the structure of farm animal practice in the UK is changing rapidly. On p 655 of this print issue, Katherine Adam and colleagues summarise the results of a study on the retention of farm animal vets in UK practices, which has recently been published in full in the online version of the journal (Adam and others 2015). Their findings are likely to be of interest to anyone working or thinking of working in farm animal practice, whether as employers or employees, as well as anyone concerned about the future supply and possible shortages of farm animal vets and about the future of farm animal practice in the UK.

  Concern about a potential shortage of farm animal vets is not new; nor, given the significance of their role in areas such as disease surveillance, safe food production and safeguarding animal health and welfare, is it confined to the UK. In 2009 in the UK, in a report called ‘Unlocking potential: a report on veterinary expertise in food animal production’, Philip Lowe, of Newcastle University, examined the issue specifically, in the light of concerns that had been raised by the House …