Tag: Technology
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New locum matching service unveiled
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A service is being launched to help practices across the UK fill their locum job vacancies in minutes. Locum Vet Finder (LVF) has been designed to help solve some of the problems created by a recruitment crisis that has left hundreds of practices struggling with unfilled locum vacancies. Based on an innovative technology platform that…
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’Tis the season to (not) be shopping…
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There are many traditions with Christmas – some you like and some you don’t. The annual onslaught of impulse puppy and kitten purchases hits us all in one way or another: there’s the heart-stopping emergency consults with the sickliest ones, the vaccine consults where you question the validity of that rabies certificate, and the disappearance…
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Practicing practising
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I found my final year university yearbook the other day. In it, I couldn’t help but notice I had been voted the person most likely to write their practice car off in the first year of practice. Now, while this wasn’t entirely fair (I didn’t write off a practice vehicle until my fourth year as…
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An unrecognised reliance on technology
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It’s surprising how much we rely on the internet and associated technologies. In fact, you don’t quite realise how much it helps until you find yourself without it. I experienced a weird widespread internet fault. I’m not sure if it was localised to to my geographical area, but, for a few hours, neither my mobile…
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Vet finance guide, pt 3: purchasing equipment
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Investment in equipment to offer new services, improved efficiency and improve your practice is highly important. As with any industry, technology advances and staying on top of it can ensure your business can remain strong. Veterinary equipment can be expensive and paying out a lump sum for a particular purchase can have a significant impact…
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A cryonic kitty conundrum
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I’m starting this blog with an apology. I frequently like to use links to other stories to illustrate a point or show where an idea originated from, but, sadly, this time that “read through” is from The Sun. I’m warning you now as I don’t want anyone to click through who doesn’t want to give…
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Social media – a blessing or a curse?
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An experienced vet warned me to stay off social media as a new graduate, because comparing yourself to others “drains your confidence”. I’m not sure I agree. As with anything, there are pros and cons to the new age of communication, advertising and sharing information that is social media. Not just in veterinary, but in…
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Innovative thinking
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As you may have seen, I have won a little award. Obviously, with my writing here, I should be the Nobel Laureate for Literature, but I think that’s in the bag for for next time. This award was for innovation. It came as a bit of a surprise, as I’ve been “innovating” for so long…
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Take a message, please…
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I’m not a fan of the telephone. I don’t mean my smartphone (you’d be hard pressed to prise that from my fingertips), I mean the telephone – the 19th century invention that all started with “Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you”. I appreciate it has revolutionised communication and changed society completely –…
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Red in tooth and claw
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If you’d told me that at some point last year I’d be watching a group of killer snakes chasing an iguana, I’d have assumed you meant I had, once again, fallen asleep watching the Horror Channel. If you’d then told me it would be one of the most gripping and emotional pieces of television I…