Jiglu: Farmtalking: Discussion: Re: RE: vets petition

Originally from: coleen

There are equally disgusting acts carried out by some Vets in the area of 'companion animals' just as with fmd, but obviously not on as larger scale. If everyone who has cause to use a vet rallied together then they would have to sit up and listen.

We pay more for our vets and our drugs then most other Countries, and look what we get.

I still see that there are more people applying to be Vets then there are places on courses. These days straight A's do NOT guarantee you a place. Surely if that is the case, then the selection process should be able to allow the people (or larger numbers anyway) go forward who really care about the animals. There must be SOME.

Coleen

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Subject: [farmtalking] RE: vets petition
Delighted to see this. I realise that this is the "pet" people, but the
cause is common – a very badly regulated industry that has grown from what was once a well regulated and well regarded profession.

The regulation arrangements belong to the 19C not the 21C. It does not
look good that vets that have faked documents relating to the health of exports remain in their jobs – and able to repeat the offence.

We owe better to our friends and trading partners overseas. Did you
realise that most countries will still not accept live pigs from Britain? They do not believe the health certificates signed by British vets. They are right too.

The shame of it... a nation of animal lovers and honest traders?
We once had the greatest reputation for honesty and integrity in the
world, now dragged into the gutter by a gang of bent vets.

Regards
Pat Gardiner
go-self-sufficient.com
Author wrote:
ACTION GROUP ASKED QUEEN FOR OMBUDSMAN FOR VETS
AN ACTION group is to appeal to the Queen as a pet owner asking
for the rules governing vets to be changed.
A 4,000-signature petition requesting that an ombudsman is
appointed to oversee the veterinary profession was handed in to Buckingham Palace recently.
The petition was given originally to former Animal Welfare
Minister Elliot Morley who put the issues to a House of Commons select committee which was to look at the profession.
The action group was formed in a bid to make the Royal College of
Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) more accountable for its own. Members, who have demonstrated outside the college's London premises, are demanding that incompetent vets should be properly disciplined and if need be banned or suspended.
Co-founder of the group, Jan Mahoney, said at the time: "We put it
to Mr Morley that the present system operated by the RCVS was not acceptable.
"If a vet is found guilty of serious misconduct and ordered to be
struck off the register he or she can appeal to a privy council within 28 days.
"If appealed, the order does not take affect unless upheld by the
privy council. Therefore the vet can continue to work while awaiting the appeal."
But the group was unhappy with the outcome of the select committee
meetings, feeling that the disciplinary side of the matter had not been dealt with satisfactorily.
Shortly afterwards Mrs Mahoney asked for the petition to be given
back and sought and received permission to give it to the Queen.
Coleen

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