Specialist nutritionist support for veterinarians and practices
Lacking the time for detailed dietary work-ups ? Can't find a fitting solution to a complex case? Or do you want to improve your practice's approach to providing nutritional advice? Partner with an ECVCN diplomate to expand your individualised treatment plans with tailored nutrition. Boost your service to your clients!
Specialist nutritionist support for veterinarians
Lacking the time for detailed dietary work-ups ? Can't find a fitting solution to a complex case? Or do you want to improve your practice's approach to providing nutritional advice? Partner with an ECVCN diplomate to expand your individualised treatment plans with tailored nutrition. Boost your service to your clients!
Nutritionist support for veterinarians
Lacking time, struggling with a complex case or looking to improve your own nutritional advice? Partner with an ECVCN diplomate to expand your individualised treatment plans with tailored nutrition. Boost your service to your clients!
Swiss and European veterinarians can refer cases.
Patients outside Switzerland are very welcome. The submission would just need to go through their trusted practice due to legal limitations.
Swiss and European veterinarians can refer cases.
Patients outside Switzerland are very welcome. The submission would just need to go through their trusted practice due to legal limitations.
How a referral works
1. Pick & submit
Choose from the options below what you and your client prefer as a service. We just need their and your contact details, as well as your clinical work-up.
2. Plan a discussion
You can pick a slot for a video meeting with either yourself or with the client. This serves to discuss further wishes and to agree on the best way forward.
3. Report & follow-up
The agreed advice is formulated and is sent to you and, if selected, also the client. Afterwards, your updates enable early adaptation of the diet, should it seem necessary. For foreign clients, billing will go through your practice.
1. Pick & submit
Choose from the options below what you and your client prefer as a service. We just need their and your contact details, as well as your clinical work-up.
2. Plan a discussion
You can pick a slot for a video meeting with either yourself or with the client. This serves to discuss further wishes and to agree on the best way forward.
3. Report & follow-up
The agreed advice is formulated and is sent to you and, if selected, also the client. Afterwards, your updates enable early adaptation of the diet, should it seem necessary. For foreign clients, billing will go through your practice.
Practice partnerships
(Prices are final and not subjected to VAT)
Standard
For practices that refer regularly.
This subscription includes a 10% discount on the prices below for diet checks and optimisations, with all invoices going to the practice. While you can earn on referrals, the total price for your clients is reduced as intake becomes more efficient. A win - win!
Price: 80 CHF / month per practice
Advanced
For practices with a dedicated nutritional work-up. This subscription includes the advantages of the standard package but quick info is included in the fee and urgent cases are charged at 20% discount.
This is especially useful when you often deal with complicated cases, or want to improve your own advice!
Price: 200 CHF / month per practice
Refer a case in minutes
(Prices are final and not subjected to VAT)
Quick info
You just want to clear something up or would like an opinion without needing a calculation? You are not sure if a diet plan is needed? Or you'd like an outside look on your formulation? With this service you can book a quick 15 minutes discussion. No need to submit details beforehand!
Price: 40 CHF fixed (included for advanced partners)
Quick info
You just want to clear something up or would like an opinion without needing a calculation? You are not sure if a diet plan is needed? Or you'd like an outside look on your formulation? With this service you can book a quick 15 minutes discussion. No need to submit details beforehand!
Price: 40 CHF fixed (included for advanced partners)
Diet check
Not sure if your patient's diet is optimal and immediate optimisation is not yet on the table? Here simply assess the current diet and determine whether something could or should change. An upgrade to diet optimisation is possible afterwards.
What to prepare for submission is specified below.
Price: 90 CHF fixed
(10% discount for partners)
Diet check
Not sure if your patient's diet is optimal and immediate optimisation is not yet on the table? Here simply assess the current diet and determine whether something could or should change. An upgrade to diet optimisation is possible afterwards.
What to prepare for submission is specified below.
Price: 90 CHF fixed
(10% discount for partners)
Diet optimisation
In need of an individualised dietary plan for your patient? This service includes the diet check and its improvement after a discussion with either you or your client. During the meeting, an estimate of the total cost will be made, and extra wishes can be expressed. Not to worry, if no changes are needed, only the diet check will be charged.
The same details are needed as for the diet check service and are specified below.
Price: 160 CHF / h
Max: 400 CHF (490 CHF when upgraded from diet check)
(10% discount for partners)
Diet optimisation
In need of an individualised dietary plan for your patient? This service includes the diet check and its improvement after a discussion with either you or your client. During the meeting, an estimate of the total cost will be made, and extra wishes can be expressed. Not to worry, if no changes are needed, only the diet check will be charged.
The same details are needed as for the diet check service and are specified below.
Price: 160 CHF / h
Max: 400 CHF (490 CHF when upgraded from diet check)
(10% discount for partners)
Urgent advice
Sometimes you need help, and you need it fast! This service is meant for more time-sensitive cases and can range from quick hints, to full dietary advice for the first critical period. Once we are past this stage, prices for the other services apply. All you need to submit is a short description, your availability and we'll try to connect within 1 working day
Price: 250 CHF / h
(20% discount for advanced partners)
Urgent advice
Sometimes you need help, and you need it fast! This service is meant for more time-sensitive cases and can range from quick hints, to full dietary advice for the first critical period. Once we are past this stage, prices for the other services apply. All you need to submit is a short description, your availability and we'll try to connect within 1 working day
Price: 250 CHF / h
(20% discount for advanced partners)
Follow-up
Do we need to tweak the diet slightly after the initial advice? Small adaptations are requested through this service. In case of more extensive changes, e.g. a recipe is requested or needed due to another diagnosis, services will be charged at the price of a diet optimisation. Novel clinical results (if there are any), should be submitted with the booking.
Price: 50 CHF fixed (unless regarded as optimisation)
Follow-up
Do we need to tweak the diet slightly after the initial advice? Small adaptations are requested through this service. In case of more extensive changes, e.g. a recipe is requested or needed due to another diagnosis, services will be charged at the price of a diet optimisation. Novel clinical results (if there are any), should be submitted with the booking.
Price: 50 CHF fixed (unless regarded as optimisation)
What is needed for referral
Next to the owner's and your contact details, your clinical work-up and plan is central to the referral. For the quick info and urgent advice services, however, you do not need to submit elaborate details! When booking a check or optimisation, you will be asked to complete the questionnaire online, or to upload a written copy. The latter you can download here.in English, German or French.
A lot will have to provided by the owners. The more accurate they are, the quicker a case can be handled and the fewer follow-ups are needed. A more thorough work-up thus reduces total expenses! For missing data, estimates will be used, which may not be fitting.
About the patient
Signalement
Name, species, breed, sex & neuter status, activity level.
Weight trends
Actual body weight, gaining or losing (and how time span), If growing, parents' weight or estimated adult weight.
Condition scores
Body and muscle condition scores should be provided. Photographs of your patient from above and from the side can be an added value here.
Clinical work-up
The relevant history, your findings during examination, lab results, your (working) diagnosis, the treatment plan as well as previously tried strategies.
Referral code & contact details
Both your details, as well as those of the owner should
be provided. If you have a partnership, be sure to either provide your key when your clients submit the case themselves, or submit it for them.
About feeding and management
Supervision
Whether other pets are present and can be fed separately.
If there is unsupervised outdoor access with food sources.
Diet composition
All dietary items that are currently fed, including main food, snacks, supplements and medication aids.
The quantity thereof (preferably gramm per day or week).
For homemade ingredients, it is important to indicate if the reported weight is cooked or fresh.
Diet handling
How the food is stored and / or prepared.
Diet history
Previous approaches, their result and for how long they were attempted. If a change was advised recently, please indicate when. This is especially important for exclusion diets. When requesting support for adverse food reactions, either a list of what has been fed before can be uploaded, or items not yet fed can be indicated from our list.
Further remarks
Anything else that may come to mind and seems important (e.g. specific wishes of the owner, can be indicated as well).
For quick info and urgent advice, you do not need to submit many details. For other services your full work-up and treatment plan is central. Details can be submitted online or by uploading the completed questionnaire. The latter you can download here.in English, German or French.
More accurate submissions render fewer follow-ups. A more thorough work-up thus reduces total expenses! For missing data, estimates will be used, which may not be fitting.
About the patient
Signalement
Name, species, breed, sex & neuter status, activity level.
Weight trends
Actual body weight, gaining or losing (and how time span), If growing, parents' weight or estimated adult weight.
Condition scores
Body and muscle condition scores should be provided. Photographs of your patient from above and from the side can be an added value here.
Clinical work-up
The relevant history, your findings during examination, lab results, your (working) diagnosis, the treatment plan as well as previously tried strategies.
Referral code & contact details
Both your details, as well as those of the owner should
be provided. If you have a partnership, be sure to either provide your key when your clients submit the case themselves, or submit it for them.
About feeding and management
Supervision
Whether other pets are present and can be fed separately.
If there is unsupervised outdoor access with food sources.
Diet composition
All dietary items that are currently fed, including main food, snacks, supplements and medication aids.
The quantity thereof (preferably gramm per day or week).
For homemade ingredients, it is important to indicate if the reported weight is cooked or fresh.
Diet handling
How the food is stored and / or prepared.
Diet history
Previous approaches, their result and for how long they were attempted. If a change was advised recently, please indicate when. This is especially important for exclusion diets. When requesting support for adverse food reactions, either a list of what has been fed before can be uploaded, or items not yet fed can be indicated from our list.
Further remarks
Anything else that may come to mind and seems important (e.g. specific wishes of the owner, can be indicated as well).
Want to learn more?
Would you like to organize a lecture for you and your colleagues? Or do you think a presentation on pet nutrition would fit well within your event? Get in touch with the button below!
Want to learn more?
Would you like to organize a lecture for you and your colleagues? Or do you think a presentation on pet nutrition would fit well within your event? Get in touch with the button below!
The price can vary considerably depending on the complexity of the case, how to the point the referral is, additional wishes from the owner etc. During the schedulded meeting with either you or the owner, total cost will be estimated to agree upon. Costs for an optimisation will, however, not exceed 490 CHF. For urgent advice, only the immediate response time will be charged as such. Other services are provided at a fixed rate.
This is your choice! During case submission you can indicate who will be in the video call, where the bill is sent etc. For non-Swiss owners, invoices will be sent to the practice.
The dietary advice is there to support your treatment plan. Suggestions may be made but this service is a partnership, rather than a hand-off.
During submission, with the click of a button you agree to the terms and conditions on this site. No further signing needed!
The partnership agreements on the other hand do require a separate contract. They are meant for you to benefit more from our cooperation. We would first have an online meeting to determine the best fit for your practice. Thereafter, you will receive the contract for your revision.
Urgent requests get priority. Normally, you should receive an email or a call-back within 1 working day. Depending on the complexity, we try to solve your problem then and there or as quickly as possible.
Unless you're asking support for a non-Swiss client, it is up to you to decide if you prefer this. It does allow you to be the sole point of contact. Some owners may be more comfortable to ask for help within the established trust-relationship between your practice and them.
Within a partnership, you can earn 10% on referrals when you charge the normal rate to your clients. As this would also make referral more efficient, total costs for the owners would go down. Everybody wins!
There is no limitation! Whether your patient has renal failure, liver issues, enteropathy, any condition you could diagnose, or is simply healthy, advice for all pets, regardless of feeding format (commercial, BARF or homemade) can be provided!
Frequently asked questions
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