Our quarterly Board and Policy meetings were last week at BEVA HQ in Fordham.  These meetings are vital to the work which BEVA undertakes and that came on the back of a trip to lantra in Stoneleigh to discuss the national occupational standards for EDTs.  For some time, we have championed the efforts of the BAEDT in providing professional dental services within the context of a proposed exemption order to deregulate some dental procedures to non-vets and the current work with lantra is a step in that direction.

I am currently at the AAEP congress in California.  The AAEP is an important commercial and political partner for BEVA.  Their congress has a similar in scope to BEVA congress and has coexisting clinical streams for general practitioners and a vast commercial exhibition.  Breakfast meetings at 7am for international attendees or those of a strong Christian faith, with lectures from 8am are novel and would certainly be a struggle for most attendees at BEVA congress given our extensive social programme!