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Equine Practices

Farm Animal Practices

Small Animal Practices

Map of VetCompass Collaborating Practices

The map below shows the location of the veterinary practices collaborating with VetCompass (blue circles) overlaying the locations of all RCVS registered veterinary clinics (black dots) across the UK, as of November 2019.

The VeNom codes are a standardised set of veterinary terms that have been developed and are maintained by the a multi-institution group of veterinary and IT colleagues based at the majority of the UK Veterinary Schools. The list consists of diagnoses, presenting complaints and procedures associated with companion animal veterinary work.

Practices participating in the VetCompass project are encouraged to use the VeNom codes, although clinical coding is entirely optional.

The clinical coding process has been designed with the busy consulting vet in mind for maximum simplicity and time efficacy. At the end of the routine visit, having written up the clinical notes as usual, the consulting vet assigns a summary term (standardised clinical code) to best describe the diagnosis for that animal. If the diagnosis is uncertain a term can be selected from a list of ‘presenting complaints’.

To select from the built-in list of summary terms a multi-letter search engine is used. Typing in EITHER: the first letters of the diagnosis/presenting complaint/reason for record addition (e.g. ‘abs’ for terms related to ‘abscess’) OR the first letters of more than one of the words in a diagnosis, each separated by a space (e.g. ‘c b a’ for ‘‘cat bite abscess’) brings up a list of matching or related terms. The search engine has been designed to recognise synonyms and will re-direct to the official nomenclature.

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Current funding bodies

VetCompass supporters

Official Supporting Statements

We are delighted the following organisations have offered their support for the VetCompass project.

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS)

The RCVS “supports the aims of VetCompass Animal Surveillance” and “has approved the data collection process of VetCompass”. They &l