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AgVetLink February 2005

Staff changes

The ACVM Group has started the year with the departure of three team members.

As reported in the December AgVetLink, Catherine Alsford, Advisor (Operations) has left after 11 years. We are reviewing the tasks within the Advisor team and have not yet replaced Catherine.

Vanessa Philp has left the Group after one year as a member of the Advisor team. She was a very welcome resource during our extremely busy year of updating products to the ACVM Act.

Melanie Pero, Co-Ordinator (Operations), left the Group in January. This position is also being reviewed, but it is unlikely that a replacement appointment will be made in the immediate future.

The workloads and duties that were normally undertaken by departing staff have been allocated to Linley Thorburn, Rachel Green and Claire Truscott. We also have the assistance of Chris Scott who is completing a university degree and has been with the ACVM Group for two years in a part-time capacity. Chris is already familiar with our systems and is being trained in all aspects of the Advisor’s role.

Although we do not believe there will be too many delays in the processing of work, we ask that you be patient with matters that you bring to our attention – staff members may need to get ‘up to speed’ with the history of your query. However, if you do experience long delays, please do not hesitate to contact Maree Zinzley, Programme Manager (Operations) by email: (maree.zinzley@nzfsa.govt.nz).