“PDSA” – but not as you know it?!

Implementing a strategy to improve animal welfare in clinical practice – lessons from the PDSA's approach

“…Such benchmarking is oten necessary due to a lack of evidence-based standards in veterinary medicine. 7 However, maintaining an audit cycle in the long term can be diicult, 8 and the annual cycles were not maintained at the PDSA. In the real world, many external factors may impede an organisation's ability to continue an audit cycle, and all of the staf involved in the audit programme described by Wensley and colleagues should be commended on maintaining audits over a large organisation for a ive-year period.…”

“…Rather than setting explicit criteria to be met, benchmarking was used for performance comparison with other PDSA veterinary clinics. Such benchmarking is often necessary due to a lack of evidence‐based standards in veterinary medicine 7…”

“…Implementing a strategy to improve animal welfare in clinical practicelessons from the PDSA's approach IN 2016, the BVA published its animal welfare strategy, 1 outlining a way forward to enable improvements in animal welfare in the UK. In a study summarised on p 316 of this issue of Vet Record, 2 Wensley and colleagues present compelling evidence of how the implementation of some of these recommendations has made real and measurable improvements to the welfare of animals treated by the PDSA -a UK veterinary charity.…”