Veterinary Practices
Veterinary practices are an essential part of the UK petcare ecosystem, influencing product recommendations, customer trust, and pet owner behaviour. Pet Gazette reports on commercial developments within the veterinary sector that impact the retail and supply chain — including practice acquisitions, corporate consolidation, partnerships with petcare brands, and cross-referral strategies. Coverage also includes new clinic openings, service innovations, and trends in preventative care and prescription products. This tag offers valuable insight into how veterinary practices shape demand for health-related pet products and interact with the wider commercial pet industry.
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Aug- 2018 -10 AugustVeterinary
Pets’n’Vets launch Scotland’s first ever in-house Receptionist Academy
The Pets’n’Vets Family, a network of veterinary practices with surgeries around Glasgow and surrounding areas, has launched Scotland’s first ever in-house Receptionist Academy for the veterinary sector. The initiative will give every receptionist in the practice an opportunity to enrol in the College of Animal Welfare’s veterinary receptionist’s course; a…
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7 AugustPet Owners
Petplan launches ad campaign featuring customers and vets
Pet insurance provider, Petplan, has launched the latest phase of its advertising series featuring customers, vets and their pet stories. Currently on air, the TV adverts filmed at The Veterinary Hospital in Hungerford, focus on the relationships shared between pets and their owners. As well as highlighting the crucial role…
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6 AugustVeterinary
£3.3m pet hospital opens for business
A new hi-tech, multi-million pound, specialist referral hospital for pets has launched in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. It is the first dedicated pet hospital of its kind in the local area and will create over thirty new jobs by the end of 2018. Hamilton Specialist Referrals (HSR) is the joint brainchild…
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Jul- 2018 -26 JulyManufacturers
Nutravet celebrates 10 years in business
Natural animal health company Nutravet is celebrating 10 years in business after it launched in August 2008 with a vision to offer high quality natural alternatives to traditional health products. Nutravet launched the company launched with Nutraquin+, a fast-acting joint support product sold exclusively to veterinary practices. The range took…
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26 JulyBusiness
VetPartners acquires the Northern Locum Agency
The Northern Locum Agency will be joining veterinary investment group, VetPartners, as the owner of the locum agency Julie Frost prepares to retire from the business she set up in a spare bedroom of her house in Warrington in 1987. The former qualified veterinary nurse built up one of the…
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2 JulyCurrent Affairs
Vets warned to prepare for a spike in emergency calls
Veterinary practices are being warned to prepare for a spike in emergency calls during July and August by telephone answering service provider Moneypenny. In a two-year study of telephone calls to the company’s veterinary clients, it was found that the highest number of emergency-related enquiries were received on 25 July…
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Jun- 2018 -19 JuneCharities
Animal welfare charity marks 35 years with day of debates
Over 200 delegates from veterinary, animal welfare and academic fields gathered in London on 12 June to take part in a day of discussions on some of the issues impacting animal welfare. Animal Welfare Foundation’s (AWF) Discussion Forum aimed to pose challenging questions to the veterinary profession to encourage it…
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18 JuneFeatures
The history of British families and their pets
It seems odd to think of pets as something other than a part of the family. Especially within the British culture, our smaller, furrier and feathery companions are considered sentient beings which humans do not only have the responsibility of looking after, but which in some cases are held in…
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8 JuneBusiness
Mars Petcare acquires veterinary group Linnaeus
Mars Petcare has announced that it has acquired UK veterinary group Linnaeus from private equity firm Sovereign Capital Partners. On completion of the transaction, Linnaeus will become a unit within Mars Petcare’s Veterinary Health Group. Linnaeus was founded in 2014 on the Willows Veterinary Centre and Referral Service following its acquisition by…
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6 JuneVeterinary
Pets’n’Vets introduces training programme for newly qualified RVNs
The Pets’n’Vets Family, a network of veterinary practices, has launched an innovative new training programme aimed at expanding and developing the skillsets of newly-qualified RVNs. The Pets’n’Vets Family already runs an enhanced new graduate programme designed to attract the best and brightest new graduates to its practices. The programme provides…
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