PASSPORTS

There is still an enormous amount of confusion concerning the Passport legislation which came into force in February two years ago. Under this legislation:
• Every horse and pony MUST have a passport issued by an approved Passport Issuing Organisation. Vaccination cards are not acceptable.
• This passport MUST contain the declaration concerning whether or not the horse is intended for human consumption. Many older passports do not contain these pages and must be returned to the issuing organisation to have them inserted.
• If the declaration is signed to say that the horse is not intended for human consumption then that animal can be treated with any medicine necessary and nothing needs to be entered in the passport.
• If the declaration is unsigned OR the horse is declared as intended for human consumption then there are many medicines that MUST NOT be given to that horse …… including ACP and phenylbutazone.
• A horse without a passport must be treated as though it is intended for human consumption.
• The passport MUST be made available to the vet at the time of examination and treatment so that the declaration can be checked before medicines are administered.

We strongly recommend that all our clients sign the declaration that their horse or pony
IS NOT INTENDED FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION YOU MUST SIGN THE DECLARATION IN EACH PASSPORT

We are seeing many passports which do not have the declaration signed even though the owners believe them to be in order. PLEASE CHECK AND SIGN THE NOT INTENDED DECLARATION IN ALL PASSPORTS. WE CANNOT LEGALLY SUPPLY OR ADMINISTER MANY MEDICINES IF THIS DECLARATION IS LEFT UNSIGNED.

PRESCRIPTIONS

Prescriptions are available from this practice.
You may obtain relevant veterinary medicinal products from your veterinary surgeon OR ask for a prescription and obtain these medicines from another veterinary surgeon or a pharmacy.
Your veterinary surgeon may prescribe relevant veterinary medicinal products only following a clinical assessment of an animal under his or her care.
A prescription may not be appropriate if your animal is an in-patient or immediate treatment is necessary.
You will be informed, on request, of the price of any medicine that may be prescribed for your animal.
The general policy of this practice is to re-assess an animal requiring repeat prescriptions for supplies of relevant veterinary medicinal products every 6 months, but this may vary with individual circumstances. The standard charge for a re-examination is £27.30, but again this may vary.

The current prices for the ten relevant veterinary medicinal products most commonly prescribed from 1st January 2008 were:

Danilon - 1 x 60 sachets - £46.20
Equip FT – single dose £30.00
Crystapen injection – 3g (5 Mega) £8.82
Norodine Granules – 10 x 37.5g £33.00
Equipalazone Sachets – 1 x 100 sachets £64.40
Equip F – single dose £24.00

Sedivet – per ml £4.05
Torbugesic – per ml £10.65
Baytril oral – 10% 100ml £63.54
Equimadine – per ml £19.08
Further information on the prices of medicines is available on request.