Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Medical, veterinary and environmental liaison activities in Scotland.
- Journal:
- Ecology of disease
- Year:
- 1982
- Authors:
- Sharp, J C
Plain-English summary
Over the past ten years, there have been significant changes in how medical, veterinary, and environmental health professionals in Britain work together. Traditionally, doctors and veterinarians tended to work separately, even though they share common interests. In Scotland, however, there has been a strong push since the early 1970s to create local groups that encourage collaboration, starting with the first group in Aberdeen in 1969. The paper discusses how these groups have developed and how the Communicable Diseases (Scotland) Unit has helped improve communication and cooperation among these professionals, including joint efforts in monitoring and controlling health issues. Overall, these changes have led to better teamwork and more effective health management in Scotland.
Abstract
The past decade has seen many changes in the relationships between the medical, veterinary and environmental health professions in Britain. Doctors and veterinarians had traditionally tended to remain in isolation to each other despite mutual interests, while working relationships between public health doctors and environmental health officers were disrupted following re-organization of the NHS in 1974 and of local government in 1975. The situation was, however, generally less acute in Scotland where active encouragement had been given since the early 1970s towards the creation of local liaison groups in different areas of the country, the first of which was formally established in Aberdeen in 1969. The subsequent development of other liaison groups and the role of the Communicable Diseases (Scotland) Unit in coordinating inter- and intra-professional liaison and communications throughout Scotland is described, along with examples of combined activities in surveillance, investigation and control measures.
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