Veterinary Medicine: Training and Vacancies

(asked on 7th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the level of shortages of veterinary surgeons in the UK; and what steps he is taking to support more people to train as veterinary surgeons in the UK.


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Victoria Prentis
Attorney General
This question was answered on 10th March 2022

The Department engages regularly with a range of stakeholders including both the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and British Veterinary Association on the issue of veterinary shortages across the profession. To help mitigate this, there are new veterinary schools opening at Harper Adams and Keele, The University of Central Lancashire, the Scottish Rural College and a collaboration between the University of Aberystwyth and the Royal Veterinary College (London). This will help substantially increase the number of UK graduates entering the veterinary profession in the longer term.

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