Mr. Conor Geraghty:

Our position is that these or similar systems where vets prescribe electronically have been in place for many years and some are slicker than others for the want of a better word. The key part to any system like that is that it has to be easy, quick, and repeatable so that it is not overly onerous on vets to do it at the side of a crush, where they are supposed to do it. There are two elements to this. For instance, writing prescriptions for antiparasitics would be preplanned and done at intervals. Some 99% of the prescriptions we write are at the side of a cow in a crush in all sorts of the weather or in the middle of the night, so it has to be quick and easy or people will not engage with it. If people have a list of calls in front of them in the middle of spring, they have to be able to do it easily.