The myBuddy Pet App is an effective and affordable mobile pet app that offers many benefits to your practice, your clients, and their pets.

42% of pet owners feel that they only have a moderate understanding after their vet has talked them through a procedure, using words alone. While 60% of them say they would find it useful if animations and digital images could be used.

Using its Vet Viewer benchmarking tool, business intelligence provider Veterinary Insights have calculated that revenue in UK companion animal practices has now recovered to 82% of pre-lockdown levels. This is encouraging news for veterinary businesses in the immediate term, but practices now face significant challenges in moving to a sustainable future against an uncertain background of COVID-19 risk levels.

The veterinary profession has been rapidly adapting to meet the current challenge of Covid-19, meaning that staff are under more pressure than ever to learn new skills within a tight time-frame. Video consultation forms an essential cornerstone of the arsenal vet practices can use to maintain client loyalty, generate revenue and survive this crisis. The RCVS recommends remote consultation as a step in their Flowchart - Guidance for clinical practices during COVID-19: ‘Can I do it?’1. For those that are new to telemedicine, it is important to acknowledge that consulting via video has key differences from face-to-face consults. We have put together our top tips as a guide for vets and vet nurses to help.

The benefits of telemedicine for vets are clear in the Covid-19 era — providing vet practice support by maintaining a revenue stream that is compatible with social distancing measures. However, there is a great case for integrating veterinary telemedicine into your practice business plan in the good times too. When the current crisis passes, here are 9 reasons why you should continue offering virtual appointments alongside your face-to-face service.