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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.

















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                                                                      CertAVN graduate, Krishna Mistry speaking at BSAVA 2024

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