Command Centre ACT: Helping vets boost performance and finances

VETOQUINOL has announced the launch of Command Centre ACT, a development which helps veterinary practices make better use of their data and improve performance.

Described as an innovative commercial dashboard extension, the system can work alone or in collaboration with other functionalities within its established VetIMPRESS data management platform.

Designed for clinical directors and business development staff at farm and mixed animal veterinary practices, Command Centre ACT helps transform existing practice data into strategic intelligence that drives better herd health planning for farmers alongside revenue growth of, potentially, nearly £3,000, and clinical compliance.

As farm veterinary practices continue to consolidate, they are also facing a retention and recruitment crisis that is stretching practising clinicians even further.

Add to this changes to the VMRs, increasing processor demand and growing sustainability goals, efficiency in admin processes and time management has never been more essential to maintain proactive herd health support for farmers.

Andy Paine, product manager at Vetoquinol, said: "The challenge we often hear from practices is understanding who is buying what vaccines from the practice, whether they are buying enough vaccine and whether they are buying it at the right time to ensure that vaccination cover does not lapse.

"In today’s busy world, it is getting harder to remember and keep track of. Vaccination calendars can also be challenging to work out and time consuming to set up for both vets and farmers."

"From a clinical perspective, it's harder to ensure animals are robustly vaccinated against diseases critical to the health, welfare and production on their farms, and if an outbreak were to occur from a compliance point of view it can be easy to lose farmers’ trust.

"From a financial point of view, practices lose revenue when vaccination schedules lapse or if farmers start purchasing vaccinations from other sources rather than working with their vet practice."

Vetoquinol says a key part of Command Centre ACT's value lies in its ability to identify potential missed opportunities for any vaccine protocol.

In dairy herds alone, the firm says its analysis using BVD, IBR and Leptospirosis demonstrates an opportunity of around £2,877 per farm vet through missed vaccination doses, lapsed vaccinations, and unvaccinated dairy herds – highlighting the potential to improve herd protection across the sector.

The figure excludes the opportunity for beef and sheep enterprises.

Mr Paine added: "The dashboard's name reflects its strategic approach to practice management.

"Command Centre ACT enables the user to identify farms requiring attention and assign specific follow-up actions to individual vets through the VetIMPRESS diary and tasks system, creating clear accountability whilst maintaining clinical focus.

"We're ultimately selling accountability, but we're striking the right balance between management oversight and clinical autonomy.

"Using farm population figures from official sources, like BCMS for example, enables the vet to have a clear understanding of trends and potential opportunities within their client farms, even on farms where vaccination has severely lapsed or dropped off."

Vetoquinol says that, beyond optimising vaccine scheduling and compliance, Command Centre ACT addresses critical regulatory requirements, particularly in relation to the Veterinary Medicines Regulations (VMRs) "animals under care" guidelines, which require farm vets to visually inspect livestock at least every 12 months to maintain prescribing rights.

The platform can automatically flag farms that are due visits prior to events like the lambing season and block calving. Not only is this designed to make the administration of these tasks easier, it also helps avoid the need to schedule last-minute visits when it becomes apparent a farm hasn’t been seen over the past year.

Mr Paine said: "The Delivery Note tool helps to ensure vets are recording unique animal IDs, procedures, clinical notes and treatments on farm either at the time of visit or shortly after, with a label printing tool to speed up medicine dispensing during farm visits."

For existing VetIMPRESS users, Command Centre ACT requires no additional data entry or setup. It integrates with existing connections to practice management software, live animal records, lab reports, milk recording software and some farm management systems.

To find out more, speak to your Vetoquinol Business Development Manager, or visit (https://www.vetimpress.com/](https://www.vetimpress.com/)