What is Vet CPD? Veterinary Continuing Professional Development (Vet CPD) is the process by which vets continually maintain, improve and broaden their professional and personal skills and knowledge to ensure they remain professionally competent. In the UK, all practising vets must undertake a minimum of 105...
Recently Onswitch met with some clients at a local country pub. We have used it regularly in the past for meetings and evening events (it's a hard life!) however, we shall be using it considerably less in the future. Probably not at all. When we arrived...
It's been an interesting, and expensive, week for one member of the Onswitch team. Noticing a swollen lump on the cat's head, our Onswitcher takes said tomcat to the vet. He can be a little bit fighty (the cat, not the vet. As far as we...
Not returning calls, being evasive and short when you finally do speak, forgetting important dates - it's clear that this relationship is coming to an end. Except this time it's about matters of health, not of the heart - your practice's relationship with your customers has...
Needing to book the eyes of Onswitch junior in for their annual health check, we recently contacted our local independent optician. We like to support community-based businesses wherever possible, and so we rang to make an appointment. Obviously his education comes first, and so we...
Needing a spot of pampering, we recently booked in to a salon we hadn't used before to have a manicure and some gel nails applied. Gentlemen readers may be unaware of the many benefits of gel nails, so you may care to re-imagine this cautionary...
As Paloma Faith reminded us, not everyone we ask for advice and help tells it how it really is. From our corner of the veterinary consultancy world this seems to be particularly pertinent - we have just recently heard from several clients that they feel...
Onswitch Junior needs his teenage booster vaccinations. Ringing our local GP surgery, we are informed that appointments are only available between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday. When he is either at, or travelling home from, school. Taking time out of school does not appear to...
First, a warning. This blog is therapy! There may be capitals! It is a venting of frustration, a means of minimising the shouting at the television and Twitter feed that has been happening rather too much recently! It also feels a lot like stating the bleedin'...
Team Onswitch have been on the road even more than usual of late. So far, so good. Until we got to Luton. After a hard day's CPD, we just fancied a nice chilled glass of wine. Not an unreasonable request in a successful international chain of renowned hostelries. But...