State Veterinary Service To Become Animal Health, UK

Main Category: Veterinary
Article Date: 28 Mar 2007 - 9:00 PDT

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From 1 April the State Veterinary Service (SVS), one of Defra's executive agencies, will change its name to Animal Health.

Animal Health brings together all the expertise previously offered by SVS, the Dairy Hygiene and Egg Marketing Inspectorates and the Wildlife Licensing and Registration Service.

The formation of this new single agency follows recommendations made by the Hampton Review, which looked at how to make regulation more efficient, for example how to cut the time businesses have to spend on paperwork.

Chief executive of Animal Health Glenys Stacey said:

"We plan to become one organisation in every sense. Dairy Hygiene and Egg Marketing staff share will share premised with us after our merger and we will continue with this theme.

"The conservation work done by our Wildlife Licensing and Registration colleagues brings a new type of work to the organisation and again we welcome the opportunity it gives us to work more widely in animal health and welfare.

"We all welcome this merger; together we can deliver more comprehensively and with the customer in mind."

The new name for the enlarged agency will ensure a single, coherent identity that will be easily recognisable and apparent to the industry, other customers and the public.

-- http://www.svs.gov.uk (up until 1 April)
-- http://www.defra.gov.uk

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