Resumen de Maintaining surveillance

• GIVEN the furore prompted by the proposal, it is not altogether surprising that opposition to the idea of closing the disease surveillance centre (DSC) at Inverness should feature so prominently in responses to Scotland's Rural College's (SRUC's) consultation on changing the structure for veterinary surveillance in Scotland (VR, June 6, 2015, vol 176, p 583; July 18, 2015, vol 177, p 56). Summarising the responses to the consultation in a report published last week1 (see also p 161 of this issue), SRUC notes that most of the responses it received related specifically to Inverness: there was, it reports, ‘strong opposition’ to proposals to close the centre and, furthermore, private veterinary surgeons in the area were ‘united in their opposition to their providing postmortem services to their clients’, which had been suggested as an alternative option if the Inverness centre were closed. This is not to say that the proposed closure of the Inverness centre is the only aspect of SRUC's proposals that seems to be causing concern, and a glance through the various responses to the consultation that have been posted …