England Implementation Plan
Pigs
A Strategy for British Pig Health and Welfare
In 2004, inspired by the Animal Health and Welfare Strategy (AHWS) for Great Britain 
(1.2 MB) the British Pig Executive (BPEX), the National Pig Association, the Pig Veterinary Society and the Meat and Livestock Commission published a Strategy for British Pig Health and Welfare . The Strategy presented a vision and 9 priorities for action.
One action was to introduce the British Pig Health and Welfare Council to oversee the industry's programme of health and welfare improvements and the Strategy itself. The Council's webpages include minutes of their meetings (it has met twice a year since its first meeting in July 2004).
It the Autumn of 2007, BPEX published Research, Development and Knowledge Transfer dimensions of the British Pig Executive Health and Welfare Strategy for the pig herd. This considers, at a strategic level, the R&D and knowledge transfer requirements of the BPEX plan for pig health and welfare in Britain. As such, it follows through the initiatives laid by the 2004 pig strategy.
The 2007 document identifies 6 core health strategies (on page 5 of the above document) directly addressing health-related problems in the British pig herd and 6 supporting health strategies (one of which is welfare)(on page 12 of the above document), without which the core strategies cannot be delivered.
BPEX has published an action plan (50KB) based on the sectors own priorities for intervention, this revised strategic framework is the platform from which the industry will develop action plans.
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5 September, 2008