Veterinary conversations with practical professional weight.
VETchat by The Webinar Vet brings veterinary professionals into practical, reflective conversations about the pressures and responsibilities of the profession. Recent episodes move from antibiotic stewardship to mental health, workplace breaks, early-career strain, and leadership paths.
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VETchat by The Webinar Vet is a professional conversation series for people who care about how veterinary work is actually done. It is calm, explanatory, and usually centered on a guest’s experience. The show often begins with a friendly introduction, then settles into the practical consequences of a serious topic. Recent episodes show that range clearly. One discussion with Ian Battersby and Nicola Bromley focuses on antibiotic stewardship and the difficulty of changing prescribing behavior inside busy practices. The emphasis is not only on knowledge. It is also on capability, opportunity, motivation, team agreement, cost, time, and whether a new process will genuinely alter what happens at the end of a consult. Another group of episodes, presented in several languages, centers on veterinary mental health with María Castán and Miguel Moura Esteves. Those conversations describe protected breaks, workplace permission, the strain of difficult euthanasia, early-career vulnerability, and the need for accessible support resources. The show is especially interested in the gap between good intentions and clinic-level reality. It returns often to systems: how teams decide, how leaders model boundaries, how practices make room for care without pretending there is endless energy available. Leadership is also part of the mix, as in Magdoline Awad’s account of veterinary training, private practice, RSPCA New South Wales, and later chief medical officer work at Green Cross. The style is not brisk. Guests are allowed to take long turns, repeat a point in a new way, and connect professional themes to lived examples. That gives the series a useful CPD feel without making it feel detached or academic. It is best for listeners who want thoughtful veterinary context, not headlines. The recurring strength is its willingness to make broad professional issues feel specific enough to act on.
Made for: Built for veterinary professionals, practice leaders, students, and industry listeners who want reflective, work-facing discussion. It especially suits those interested in clinical responsibility, team culture, and professional wellbeing.
What sets it apart: The show gives guests time to connect policy, research, and conference themes to the realities of veterinary practice. Its strength is measured, clinic-level explanation rather than quick opinion or entertainment-driven debate.
Looking for on-the-go content on all things veterinary? VETchat by The Webinar Vet brings you exclusive discussions with members all across the veterinary profession. From hot topical debates to mini CPD/CE lessons, we cover just about everything! Join us weekly to learn, be inspired, and be entertained. Hosted by veterinarian Anthony Chadwick.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
VETchat makes veterinary leadership tangible by tracing how clinical responsibilities become team practices, workplace boundaries and operational decisions.
VETchat by The Webinar Vet treats veterinary work as both clinical practice and an operating environment. Anthony Chadwick's guest conversations connect professional wellbeing, antibiotic stewardship and sheep health to decisions made inside practices and on farms.
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A practical look at making antibiotic stewardship work inside busy veterinary practices.
Antibiotic stewardship lands as a management challenge once it moves into a busy veterinary practice. Nicola Bromley and Ian Battersby link the wider reduction in antibiotic use, particularly in large-animal work, to the everyday choices that shape prescribing in consultations,…
A practical, humane look at veterinary mental health, workplace boundaries, and the small pauses that help teams keep going.
Veterinary mental health is framed as a practical workplace issue: how a care-led profession can protect the people doing the caring. Maria Castan, a biochemist working with Nestle Purina, and Miguel Mura Estevez keep the focus close to daily practice, from difficult euthanasia…
A grounded look at making recovery, boundaries, and mental health part of veterinary work.
Veterinary mental health lands here as a workplace design issue, not just an individual burden. Maria Castanho and Miguel Moura Esteves link vocation to the conditions that let people keep doing difficult work, with PDSA offering a practical example: a protected coffee break…
A grounded episode on veterinary mental health, workplace boundaries, and the pressures that can push people out of the field.
Veterinary work comes through here as a profession under real strain, with emotional load, missed breaks, weak boundaries, and vocation spilling into private life all treated as conditions that shape whether people stay.
A humane, grounded case for making veterinary wellbeing part of the working day.
Veterinary wellbeing is treated here as part of everyday working life, not a slogan to be saved for a crisis. Mental health sits inside the ordinary rhythm of the clinic day: vocation, pressure, client communication, and the need for physiological breaks all belong to the same…
How veterinary decisions can better account for animals, clients and veterinary teams.
Katie Mantel joins Anthony Chadwick to discuss RCBS Knowledge's research into contextualised veterinary care, where a sound decision has to account for the vet, the client and the animal.
A practical case for monitoring Haemonchus before absent scour or familiar assumptions let a flock down.
Haemonchus can slip past familiar flock-health checks. Adult ewes may receive less monitoring, scour may not appear first, and a high faecal egg count cannot identify the worm on its own.
Clinical farriery from anatomy to action.
Odd questions, followed patiently down to the incentives.
Veterinarians Dawn Bowness and Kaz Strycharczyk discuss the rising threat of Haemonchus, a blood-sucking roundworm, in UK sheep flocks.
Veterinarian Anthony Chadwick hosts Katie Mantell, CEO of RCVS Knowledge, to discuss the charity's new strategy 'Healthier Animals, People, and Planet' for 2025-2029.
Antibiotic stewardship gets a steady, practical run-through.
Maria Castán says a 640-veterinarian study in Portugal, France, and Italy found 76% feel emotionally overwhelmed weekly and 71% are considering leaving the profession.
Anthony Chadwick introduces guests María Castán and Miguel Moura Esteves to discuss mental health issues in the veterinary profession, with María sharing her background as a biochemist at Purina.
Anthony Chadwick starts with introductions before the conversation moves quickly into the real problem: how veterinary teams keep going when the day is heavy.
Veterinary professionals discuss mental health challenges and well-being initiatives in the veterinary field.
Maria Castán and Miguel Moura Esteves use a 640-veterinarian survey from Portugal, France, and Italy to show that veterinary mental health is a sector-wide issue, not an isolated complaint.
Anthony Chadwick of The Webinar Vet hosts María Castán and Miguel Moura Esteves on VETchat to discuss veterinary mental health, workplace strain, and practical support.
Magdoline Awad discusses her journey from veterinary school to becoming Chief Medical Officer at Green Cross, sharing insights on resilience and growth in leadership.
Molly McAllister, CMO of Mars Veterinary Health, discusses her career journey and passion for veterinary medicine.
Vanessa Nicola, a veterinary surgeon and owner of Wiley Veterinary Centre, discusses winning the Green Practice of the Year award and shares insights on starting sustainable actions in veterinary practice.
Veterinarians John Hemingway and Will Allman discuss the emerging threat of Haemonchus in sheep, focusing on regional differences and management strategies as temperatures rise.
Veterinary experts discuss strategies for tackling Haemonchus in sheep, focusing on prevention and management.