Lucy Coyne discusses her recent qualitative research looking at how UK pig vets and pig farmers think and feel about antimicrobial use in pigs, and how prescribing decisions are made. 

Link to full paper: http://veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/content/early/2014/09/09/vr.102686.full

Antimicrobial use and prescribing behaviours by pig veterinary surgeons and farmers in the UK

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Doctors and the farming industry are often blamed for overuse of antibiotics that spurs the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance - but the professions are using different methods to combat resistance and reduce overuse. 

In this roundtable, we bring medics and vets together to discuss the problem - where antibiotic resistance arises, how resistance genes propagate through the environment and between countries, and what non-drug approaches can be used to reduce the need for antibiotics.


Sandy Trees, Vet Record editor in chief, and retired veterinary surgeon
Stuart Reid, principal of the Royal Veterinary College
Jenny Bellini, cattle and dairy vet, Friars Moor Livestock Health in Dorset
Peter Hawkey, professor of clinical and public health bacteriology, University of Birmingham
Tim McHugh, professor of medical microbiology at University College London
Emmanuel Wey, consultant in infection, Royal Free Hospital, London

Doctors and vets working together for antibiotic stewardship

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Andrew Cobner's presidential year

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Gudrun Ravetz's presidential year

In this podcast, we chat to Rachel Dean, director of the Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine at the University of Nottingham. The centre was this year's winner of the Veterinary Record Evidence Award.

Veterinary Record Evidence Award

Georgina Mills chats to Reuben Newsome, an author on the Veterinary Record Impact Award winning paper 'Claw length recommendations for dairy cow trimming'. 

The full paper can be found here: http://veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/content/177/9/222.full

Antimicrobial use and prescribing behaviours by pig veterinary surgeons and farmers in the UK

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