Scottish Government Veterinary Services Programme

SRUC Veterinary Services identifies new and emerging animal problems and monitors animal diseases as they affect domestic animal populations. Our team are experts in animal disease, diagnosis and surveillance and provide a practical approach, coupled with strong scientific knowledge.

We provide national veterinary disease surveillance for the Scottish Government and contribute to UK surveillance through collaboration with the Animal & Plant Health Agency (APHA) in disease monitoring and statutory disease control schemes. This includes livestock and wildlife disease surveillance, monitoring of antimicrobial resistance, investigation of new or novel disease outbreaks, animal health planning and promotion of good farm animal welfare practices.

Animal disease surveillance is a statutory requirement and is provided by SRUC Veterinary Services through the collection of data from diagnostic samples and carcasses submitted to the Veterinary and Analytical Laboratory and the network of our Disease Surveillance Centres.

The information collected by us on disease and disease trends in Scotland is added to data from APHA laboratories and approved contractors in England and Wales. This combined data provides the picture for Great Britain, and can be accessed through the disease surveillance dashboards.

We also publish monthly and quarterly reports, where you can find updates on our disease surveillance work.

To keep up to date with our latest findings, visit our Disease Surveillance blog.