Guidance

What happens during an endemic disease follow-up

Find out what you must ask your vet to do during a follow-up.

Applies to England

You must ask the vet to complete the following steps before you claim.

During the follow-up: sampling for disease or condition testing

You must ask the vet to do the required sampling and testing. It will differ depending on:

  • the species you have chosen
  • the result of your review

You must ask your vet to read the vet鈥檚 guidance on the required sampling and testing. You will only be eligible for funding if the vet follows this guidance. You can also read the vet鈥檚 guidance for details of the required testing, but this is not mandatory.

You can:

  • arrange your follow-up to fit in with your existing testing schedule if you鈥檙e already testing for the relevant diseases or conditions
  • use follow-up test results for other accreditation schemes you鈥檙e a member of (check with the accreditation scheme that they will accept testing from the follow-up)

You cannot use other accreditation scheme test results for this follow-up funding.

If you ask the vet to test for other medical conditions or diseases, you must pay for that separately.

During the follow-up: biosecurity assessment

You must ask the vet to assess biosecurity on your farm. It will differ depending on:聽

  • the species you have chosen聽
  • the result of your review聽

You should ask your vet to read the guidance for biosecurity assessments for each species:

During the follow-up: health and welfare advice

You must ask the vet to give you health and welfare advice about your livestock. You may discuss topics such as:

  • biosecurity
  • medicine usage
  • any other health and welfare concerns you have

You can read the vet鈥檚 guidance for more information on health and welfare advice, but this is not mandatory.

Get help with your follow-up

Contact the RPA and give your IAHW agreement number, if you need help arranging or completing your follow-up.

Rural Payments Agency

PO Box 352

Worksop

S80 9FG

Email: ruralpayments@defra.gov.uk

Telephone: 03000 200 301

Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5pm, except public holidays

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Funding to improve animal health and welfare: guidance for farmers and vets

Updates to this page

Published 19 June 2024
Last updated 26 June 2025 show all updates
  1. Removed some content to other pages. Updated content.

  2. Removed the word 'beef' from a link to make the content cover all cattle.

  3. Warning about endemic disease follow-up not being available for dairy cattle removed. Name of agreement added to Get help with your follow-up section.

  4. Added information about Biosecurity assessments including links to the guidance for each species. Added the full name of the agreement.

  5. Added details about the follow-up being on the same species as the review.

  6. First published.

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