CONCLUSION
67. The Government has promised to establish
a working group with the veterinary profession to consider this
report.[163] We
recommend that this working group considers the advice that vets
need to provide statutory animal health planning services; the
standardisation of data for a veterinary surveillance system,
and the subsequent sharing of information among vets; the training
requirements of large animal vets on graduation and throughout
their careers; information systems to highlight changing international
disease patterns to practising vets; and the research needs of
practitioners who are having to deliver the strategies across
the country. At its conclusion the working group should also weigh
the cost implications of the proposed new animal health and welfare
strategies against the cost to the nation if disease control fails.
163 Outline of an animal health and welfare strategy
for Great Britain, p. 24. Back
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