IVEC was created in early 2000 as the consultancy arm of Eville & Jones and is Europe’s largest specialist veterinary consultancy providing international and domestic services to Governments, the European Commission, local councils and the private sector in all aspects of veterinary science and food related matters.
 

·        Veterinarians
·        Environmental Health Professionals
·        Food Technologists
·        Lead Auditors/Assessors
·        Health & Safety Consultants
·        Trading Standards Professionals 
 

2.0             CAPABILITY

• Restructuring of State Veterinary Services

• Surveillance systems including field, laboratory services and training

• Border Control systems including import certification

• Animal Identification and movement control systems

• Contingency Planning and disease eradication strategies

• Veterinary Services management systems

• Communication systems

• Border Inspection Posts (BIP)

Eville & Jones directly employs 14 veterinarians qualified as Border Inspection Post veterinarians and has a contract to provide 24-hour veterinary cover to Southampton port for all BIP veterinary procedures.

IVEC has provided consultancy expertise on many occasions throughout the EU mainly for the alignment of acceding countries to EU standards.
 

• State Veterinary Service Matters

• Veterinary Medicines

• Food Safety

Eville & Jones provides official veterinary surgeons (OVS) to the Meat Hygiene Service (an agency of the Food Standards Agency of the UK) for the veterinary control of abattoirs.  These OVSs are responsible for ensuring that the slaughterhouses meet all the food hygiene standards required to meet European Union Directives and national legislation including the implementation of all controls needed for the control of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).
 

• Animal Biotechnology and animal reproduction

• Quality Veterinary Systems

           The writing and implementation of a system of external quality control of veterinary practices linked to the stable-to-table approach to public health, animal health and animal welfare.  The system emphasises control of veterinary medicines and includes a system of traceability of medicines from the pharmacist to the dispensing/administering veterinarian to the farmer.

           Writing the Code of Good Veterinary Practices (GVP) for the quality system based on ISO 9000:1994 series combined with specific country legislation to be used by participating practices.

            Creation of guidelines to the GVP Code, to facilitate practices adopting the system.

           Creation of a sample Manual, outlining all protocols and forms needed by practices to implement the system.

            Marketing the scheme to the practices, stakeholders and general public.

            Auditing the scheme and the issuance of certificates to practices that have implemented the GVP-Code.
 

3.0    Eville & Jones Corporate Summary

Eville & Jones has been a national provider of specialist veterinary meat hygiene services since 1993.  Since the inception of the MHS in 1995 Eville & Jones have worked in close partnership to ensure that all the MHS annual targets are met on a consistent basis. 

 Eville & Jones currently employ some 187 full time veterinary surgeons, all of whom are specialised in veterinary public health and meat hygiene and work almost solely with the MHS.  Eville & Jones have developed strict internal administrative procedures registered under ISO 9002 - the first MHS contractor to have achieved this approved standard.  From the head office in Leeds, Eville & Jones co-ordinate our activities across the country and ensure that all administrative, technical, and operational targets are met in a timely fashion.

 Over the last 9 years working with the MHS has proven to be both challenging and rewarding.  Since early April 1995 Eville & Jones have worked integrally with the MHS, assisting in the launch and development of the new service and the nationally consistent implementation of the Operations Manual.

 In March 1996 Eville & Jones rose to the challenge of providing significant numbers of new veterinary staff to help the MHS meet the then new SBO regulatory controls, ensuring that all requirements were consistently met. Following the E.coli crisis in Scotland, and the subsequent Pennington Report, Eville & Jones worked with the MHS ensuring that the Clean Livestock Policy was successfully applied, becoming an extremely effective control measure.

 During the period 1997 – 2000 the challenges were many and varied and frequently Eville & Jones was able to assist with ensuring that performance and service targets were met on an on-going basis. The move towards 100% veterinary attendance from 1 April 2001 was inevitably significantly complicated by FMD; however, Eville & Jones moved all their resources and support behind the MHS to ensure that from 1 April 2001 the MHS met all of its service targets and objectives. The FMD outbreak created what could probably be described as the ultimate challenge, but clearly demonstrates the ability of Eville & Jones to react quickly, effectively and professionally in times of crisis.

Eville & Jones track record of service delivery over the last seven years is without comparison.  Having been the only national provider of veterinary services for the MHS they have gained the experience and competence to deliver these services consistently to meet all their customer’s requirements. A further achievement was becoming the only contractor to the MHS that is both ISO 9002 approved and Investors in People registered, and working towards EN 45004 accreditation and the Business Excellence model.

Eville & Jones commitment to the MHS has been and will continue to be, clearly demonstrated as our organisation continues to seek excellence in all areas of activity.