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CPD
Watch this space for details of our upcoming CPD events. You can register for our events using the form further down the page.
To hear about and register for our CPD events please enter your details below.
FULLY BOOKED: FREE Nursing CPD: Getting to grips with knots – Schedule 3 nursing
Date: 23rd April 2025
Start Time: 7.30pm (arrival from 7pm)
Location: Northwest Veterinary Specialists, WA7 3FW
Ticket cost: FREE
THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED
Email Elliot Smith if you wish to be added to a waiting list: [email protected]
Join Ed Crystal (surgery clinician), Panos Kokkinos (surgery resident) and Emma Horn (surgery nurse) in this practical evening where you will get chance to practice suture techniques.
Pizza and refreshments provided.
This event is sponsored by Ethicon.
FREE Oncology CPD: Soft tissue sarcomas and superficial radiotherapy
Date: 21st May 2025
Start Time: 7.30pm (arrival from 7pm)
Location: Northwest Veterinary Specialists, WA7 3FW
Ticket cost: FREE
We are proud to now offer superficial radiotherapy (SRT) as a treatment option for specific cases referred to our oncology team. Valentina Granziera and Su Wei Tay will provide information on SRT, including tumours and case examples which may benefit this treatment. In addition, they will share their knowledge on up-to-date management of soft tissue sarcomas.
Buffet food and refreshments provided.
Full Day CPD at Chester Zoo with Eye Vet: Paws, claws and collaboration – a multidisciplinary update on feline medicine
Date: 18th June 2025
Start time: 8.45am
Location: Chester Zoo, Private Events entrance, Caughall Road, CH2 1LH (use this postcode for sat nav)
Ticket cost: £35pp incl. VAT (once registered, we will contact you with details on how to make payment)
Join the teams of Specialists from NWVS and Eye Vet in this multidisciplinary feline CPD day covering; lower urinary tract disease, seizure management, corneal disease, management of pelvic fractures, and how cats are not small dogs when treating tumours.
This event is sponsored by Dômes Pharma.
Two-Day Nursing CPD at Titanic Hotel and Spa: Multidisciplinary Nursing – It Takes Two
Date: 22nd and 23rd September 2025
Start Time: Arrival on 22nd September from 8:30am, for a 9:00am start
Location: Titanic Hotel and Spa, Liverpool, L3 0AN
Ticket cost: £283 per person incl. VAT (once registered, we will contact you with details on how to make payment)
This two-day event includes lunch on both days, overnight stay, and breakfast in the luxurious Titanic Hotel and Spa, situated in the historic Stanley Dock overlooking the River Mersey. You will also be able to enjoy 2 hours’ access to relax in the on-site Maya Blue Wellness Spa*.
Our highly skilled and knowledgeable nursing team will cover a variety of topics in this two-day multidisciplinary CPD event for nurses, including:
- The nurse’s role in diabetic management.
- Empowering canine cancer care – the nurse’s role in managing lymphoma.
- Wound management.
- Advanced nurse clinics.
- Anaesthesia management for the brachycephalic patient.
- The nurse’s role in seizure manage.
- Go with the flow – mastering fluid therapy strategies for complex cases.
- Shock.
- Taking the stress out of blood pressure monitoring.
- Feline transfusion medicine.
This event is sponsored by Royal Canin.
*For your 2 hours access slot to the spa, you can choose between 4-6pm or 6-8pm on the 22nd September, or 8-10am on the 23rd of September. Places are limited to 20 people per slot in order to keep the spa a tranquil experience, so book now to get your preferred time.
FREE Neurology CPD: Dine and chat with our neurology and neurosurgery team
Date: 15th October 2025
Start Time: 7.30pm (arrival from 7pm)
Location: Rake Hall, Little Stanney, CH2 4HS
Ticket cost: FREE
This event will be an opportunity to meet our neurology and neurosurgery team over dinner at a restaurant, and your chance to discuss a particular case you would like advice on, or just to ask questions and brush up your neurology knowledge. Ahead of the event we will collate questions and case queries from attendees to discuss over dinner.
This event will be an informal get-together and a great chance to get to know our team.
This event is sponsored by Vetoquinol.
Orthopaedics & Analgesia CPD: Treatment of elbow OA and complex chronic pain management
Date: 12th November 2025
Start Time: 7.30pm (arrival from 7pm)
End Time: 10pm
Location: Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool, L3 5TQ
Ticket cost: £22 per person incl. VAT (once registered, we will contact you with details on how to make payment)
Join Natalie Duffy, Specialist in anaesthesia and analgesia and Matt Smith, specialist in small animal surgery, in this informative evening in which the team will discuss their current approach to long-term chronic pain management and the treatment of elbow OA.
This event is sponsored by Dômes Pharma.
Past CPD Events
FREE CPD EVENT - High flow oxygen therapy and mechanical ventilation
Jess Herley RVN, is a veterinary technician specialist in emergency and critical care. Jess will share her vast experience and knowledge of working in Emergency and Critical Care in this informative recorded CPD webinar on high flow oxygen therapy and mechanical ventilation.
This CPD is suitable for Nurses and Veterinary professionals with an interest in ECC working in primary care and referral hospitals.
Canine Blood Transfusions
Our Head IPC Nurse, Leanne Doherty – RVN, talks about how to practically approach a canine blood transfusion.
The video covers:
- canine blood types
- available blood products
- equipment required
- preparation
- administering the product
- signs of a transfusion reaction
Diabetic ketoacidosis: tackling the perfect storm
Diabetic ketoacidosis is a common complication of diabetes mellitus in dogs and cats. Join us for a discussion about causes, diagnosis and treatment of this potentially life-threatening condition.
Lymphoma: The key points
Lymphoma is a common malignancy encountered in everyday practice. In this seminar we will review different lymphoma types and discuss the latest approach to lymphoma patient, from initial diagnostic tests to different therapeutic options available.
Oral tumours: From diagnosis to management
In this free CPD event, we reviewed the approach to oral tumours from the detection of the oral mass to the treatment of the most common oral malignancies.
Roarers and snorers!
Here you can watch our free CPD on upper airway noises in dogs. We have sounds and videos of respiratory noises for you to listen to and watch, followed by a quiz. The most likely underlying cause of each noise and is discussed along with some case studies. No snoring allowed/aloud!
Everything you need to know when treating a GDV
The recording of our recent live event will be available soon
EVENT LINK COMING SOON
Team approach to portosystemic shunts in dogs and cats
Harry Warwick BVMS MRCVS Internal Medicine Resident | Matt Smith BVetmed, GPCert(SAS), CertAVP(GSAS), MRCVS Surgical Resident
It’s a mast cell tumour! What to do next?
Oncology Residents – Estel.la Ciriano Cerda DVM, MRCVS and Lavra Zajc DVM, MRCVS