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GENERAL NEWS
GENERAL NEWS The second and more visible project will be some essential
repairs to the Hobday building façade. Over the next six
months, specialist contractors will be cleaning and repointing CertAVN Alumni,
the brickwork, repairing damaged concrete and installing
new gutters. In addition, we will be replacing all the iconic Krishna Mistry,
Crittall windows with modern double-glazed versions,
which will significantly improve the energy efficiency of this speaking at BSAVA
magnificent old building.
2024 conference
BOLTONS PARK FARM
With the venerable ‘Obs Barn’ at Hawkshead coming to the
end of its useful life, we have also embarked on a project
to create a bespoke Large Animal Handling Facility at
Boltons Park Farm. nce more, a number of our remarkable
Registered Veterinary Nurses from the
Sitting on the footprint of the building which once housed the RVC took centre stage at the BSAVA 2024
College of Animal Welfare – the facility will be used to teach Oconference, contributing significantly to the
students about safe and proper animal handling and husbandry. programme. From emergency and critical care (ECC)
In addition to modern teaching facilities, there will be animal to anaesthesia, surgical nursing to insightful case studies,
holding areas and storage for feed and teaching equipment. our dedicated RVNs and students shared their expertise
We expect these new spaces to be in use in early 2025. through lectures, case presentations, and hands-on
teaching sessions.
A special shout out goes to recent alumna,
Large Animal Handling Facility Krishna Mistry, who presented the work from
her RVC Graduate Certificate in Emergency and Critical
Care on ‘Can communication during clinical inpatient
handovers be improved by the implementation of
the ‘SBAR’ communication tool?’ in the Behaviour,
Ethics and Communications clinical abstracts session.
Well done Krishna – an inspiration and role model
for all our CertAVN students.
New library
CertAVN graduate, Krishna Mistry speaking at BSAVA 2024
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