Resumen de Centre of attention

• IT looks as if Scotland's Rural College's (SRUC's) proposals for finding a ‘uniquely Scottish solution’ to the problem of ensuring effective disease surveillance in the face of tighter budgets and increased threat of disease could be turning into a uniquely Scottish row.

  At the beginning of June, SRUC launched a six-week consultation on veterinary disease surveillance in Scotland, seeking views on proposals for changing Scotland's network of disease surveillance centres (DSCs) (VR, June 6, 2015, vol 175, p 583). The proposals have been developed following a review of veterinary surveillance published in 2011. Carried out under the chairmanship of John Kinnaird, a former president of NFU Scotland, this recommended, among other things, that a strategic management board should be established to set and implement strategy for veterinary surveillance in Scotland, and that laboratory services should be centralised, either within or close to one of Scotland's three main centres of veterinary research. It also recommended that the number of local DSCs in Scotland should be reduced, although it did not specify which of the eight centres might be closed. Instead, it suggested that this was a matter for the …