Vets and SQPs: Help ‘Stamp Out Scab’
As part of the RDPE (Rural Development Programme for England) ‘Stamp Out Scab’ campaign, vets and SQPs (Suitably Qualified Persons) are being offered expert advice on how to control sheep scab.
Vets and SQPs can attend a single training session, being held through to 18th July at sixteen locations across England. Each session provides the latest advice on control and how to help clients control scab effectively. Clinical signs and practical diagnosis are covered, as are treatments, legislation, quarantine and biosecurity, and a session on other skin parasites. Time is set aside for active discussion on developing solutions to real flock problems, including resistance, and how best to help clients. The events are open to both SQPs and vets, and are run by ADAS and accredited by AMTRA (Animal Medicines Training Regulatory Authority).
‘Vets and SQPs are crucial to controlling sheep scab,’ says Stephen Dawson, Secretary General of AMTRA, the SQP regulatory authority. ‘Sheep Scab costs the industry millions of pounds every year, and in some areas it has become endemic. This means we all need to get behind the RDPE campaign to ‘Stamp Out Scab’. These timely sessions will help vets and SQPs be as effective as possible in controlling this growing problem,’ he concludes.
The training is free to attend and will be worth 32 CPD points for SQPs. The sixteen sessions cover a wide geographical area to enable as many people to attend as possible.
For more details or to book your place, please contact ADAS on 01432 820444, or email stampoutscab@adas.co.uk.
