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So with all the current lockdown that's happening at the moment, so there is still is a studio,

but Brian and myself are not there, instead we're we're remotely joined by

Rosie Alistair who is going to talk to us a bit about a vet life and other things

and say thank you Rosie for joining us today no problem and Rosie I asked you before

when the mics were closed they can still be closed so that's good, about your roles at the moment. So your main role, because when we spoke to you last year,

you were still finishing off your PhD in Edinburgh and now you're kind of more focused on vet life,

or at least that's your primary role, but you're doing a variety

of other things as well. So maybe if we, if we, it's focused on the, on the vet life stuff,

if that's okay. And can I just ask how things have been going, and particularly in the last

of a couple of months with with everything

that's going on in the UK as well as the rest of the world. Sure. Well, yes, since the coronavirus

outbreak, obviously it's had a massive impact globally and it's absolutely something that the veterinary

profession in the UK has seen as well. And we are the calls that we get at VetLife Life and the emails that we get

at Vet Life and the contacts that we get for financial support or for professional mental

health support across all of our services have reflected that too. Our service demand very much

tends to reflect what's going on in the veterinary professions, nurses, vets, other people working in veterinary

practices and in veterinary industry. And so we did see a small spike in contacts around the time

of lockdown in the UK, which was obviously a very difficult transition for a lot of people

and for our industry. We've seen that settle down in terms of numbers. However, there's still a lot

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