Resumen de Surveillance: Proposed closure of Inverness disease surveillance centre
I HAVE read with interest your Comment and the letter from Graeme Swanson and others in last week's Veterinary Record (July 18, 2015, vol 177, pp 56, 79) and almost feel sorry for Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), which is between a rock and a hard place, albeit much of this has been its own making for failing to react to the modern needs of surveillance despite, I suspect, the advice of its staff at the ‘coal face’. I have already written to the consultation, which I hope will prove more than a public relations exercise, so without wasting time reiterating this, while I agree with many of the sentiments of Swanson and others, we must also accept there are insufficient resources to continue as we are. There is little doubt in my mind that the approach in England and Wales is deeply flawed and I sincerely hope that we in Scotland (I emphasise not just SRUC) can arrive at an updated surveillance system that will prove useful to all stakeholders and last us through the next decade at least.
