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BVZS Autumn meeting November 6th-7th 2010
Theme "Avian Medicine & Surgery" To be held at Dudley Zoo with Conference hotel being the Village Hotel. More details to be posted. Visit to : Dudley Zoological Gardens : on November 5th.
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of BVZS in 2011 there will be only one Conference that year. The meeting will be a 3 day Conference from November 11-14th. The theme will be "Recent Advances in non-domestic Animal Medicine" Further details will be posted when available
2012 Meetings It is hoped to have one in Scotland. Council will be reviewing venues
BVZS Spring meeting 2010. Theme "Preventative Medicine"
Venue Torquay and Paignton Zoo. Dates will be April 23rd to April 25th. The Conference Hotel will be the Barcelo Imperial Hotel (Hotel Torquay, Barceló Torquay Imperial Hotel, Southern England) where all the scientific sessions on the Saturday and Sunday will take place.
Download latest programe here On Saturday April 24th there will be the Conference dinner and entertainment. This year the meal will be a two course buffet style meal and menu can be found here
There will be a visit to Paignton Zoo (Welcome to Paignton Zoo Environmental Park, Paignton, Devon, UK. )on Friday 23rd 2010. Delegates will get free entrance from 10.00am. There will be more news posted about "behind the scenes tours" both here on the website and in the Zoo entrance. Friday evening.....it is hoped to arrange a visit to Living Coasts Torquay's Coastal Zoo | Living Coasts from 5pm onwards. It is envisaged to have a bar there and faclility for delegates to purchase their own supper. Anyone wishing to visit here is asked to contact Ghislaine Sayers prior to ensure a place and let her know how many will be going and who wishes to book supper.
Accommodation rates are £80.00 per room including breakfast regardless of ocupancy. Rooms can be booked via the hotel website as above website using the “BVG” code in the promotion code on the left hand side of the webpage. Alternatively if delegates are having trouble rooms can be booked via central reservations on 08701 688833 quoting “British Veterinary Group”
60 rooms have been placed on an allocation for delegates Any unconfirmed rooms shall been released 21 days prior to the event, subject to availability.
Further details about the Hotel can be found here For latest details including a call for papers click
Registration form can be downloaded here
The English Riviera website does offer an online accommodation booking facility for those delegates who wish to book an alternative standard of accommodation. http://www.englishriviera.co.uk/site/accommodation/online-booking
BVZS Satellite Day meeting in 2010 at the ICC, Birmingham on Wednesday 7th April. The theme is Exotics for GP Vets, covering birds, reptiles, rabbits, rodents, ferrets degus and sugar gliders. Further details here
Registration form can be downloaded here
To find a vet who is expert in exotics, please click here.
BVZS Wildlife discussiongroupUK has recently been formed. Anyone wishing to join are asked to contact the moderators for further details.
REPTILE LIGHTING LECTURES : Frances Baines has kindly allowed her lectures from the November 2008 BVZS meeting to be posted in the Members' area. Please log in in order to view these.
Reptile Lighting, Photokeratoconjunctivitis and How much UVB do reptiles need?
Welcome to Vetlife - VBF
For those members who wish to join the BVZS yahoo group discussion list see link below to Yahoo Groups to find out more.
