Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health offers support to embed the risk-based prescribing approach in your practice.
Risk Assessment with Parassess®
A free online parasite risk checker to support a risk-based approach to prescribing, giving your clients a fast, structured way to understand their pet’s individual risk.
Practice Parassess® Training
To build skills and confidence across the team and support implementation of a protocol that works specifically in your practice.
Pet Owner Education and Engagement Tools
To help you embed risk assessment into everyday practice.
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Risk assessment with Parassess®
A free online, easy-to-use parasite risk checker tool for pet owners to assess their pet’s individual risk to parasites and generate a personalised report. Prescribers can then use the assessment report to prescribe the right parasiticide protocol, based on the lifestyle the pet leads.
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Eye-opening insights below
What’s the risk of roundworms?
Monthly worming is the most effective way to minimise egg shedding into the environment
WormWatch®, a recent study supported by Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health alongside leading parasitologists, revealed that 86.6% of soil samples taken from UK and Ireland parks* contained Toxocara eggs.1
Scroll to hear from leading parasitologists
Learn more from Dr Ian Wright and Professor Eric Morgan
Dr Ian Wright
BVMS BSc MSc MRCVS
Chair of ESCCAP†
Professor Eric Morgan
PhD MA VetMB MRCVS
Queen’s University Belfast
How can a risk assessment tool help?
Learn how risk checking tools can assist an assessment and what forms they take, including a brief look at Parassess®, our online risk checker for owners.
What are the risk factors for common parasites?
Learn more about the key parasite risks to cats, dogs and humans – how, when and where they can occur.
What is parasite risk?
Find out how factors can grow or decrease, considering environmental hazards and exposure.
Toxcara prevalence in the environment - why should we care?
In this Vet Times Extra podcast, Eric Morgan, Professor of veterinary parasitology at Queen's University Belfast, brings insights from his research into parasites to advise what can be done to reduce the risk of Toxocara.
PLUS watch the videos
below on the Boehringer Academy
below on the Boehringer Academy
Can risk assessment work with practice health plans?
Learn how to tailor a practice health plan according to an individual dog’s parasite risk and clients’ requirements.
How can risk assessment work in practice?
Find out how involving the whole practice team can improve owner relationships, education – and the tools available to facilitate this.
Complete parasite control: webinar
Highlights the known prevalence of parasites in the UK and Ireland and explores how a pet’s lifestyle can influence choice of parasite control. The potential risk to human and animal health is discussed alongside advice from parasitology experts such as Professor Eric Morgan of Queen’s University Belfast and the European Scientific Counsel Companion Animal Parasites (ESCCAP). Different parasite control strategies are examined, with a comparison of monthly worming vs quarterly.
