Recently, Sam attended the Masterclass in Canine Endoscopy, an inspiring course designed to elevate diagnostic capabilities in veterinary medicine. Led by the esteemed Philip Lhermette, (who literally wrote the textbook) the training offered a detailed exploration of flexible endoscopy's potential, leaving Sam eager to bring advanced diagnostics directly to our owners and pets here at Westport Vets. A Practical Journey [...]
Westport Vets recently hosted an in house CPD for their staff members on the 11th October to talk about Conflict Management in the workplace. Westport Vets recently hosted an in house CPD for their staff members on the 11th October to talk about Conflict Management in the workplace. The talk was on how we deal with difficult situations, [...]
We have become the first practice in Scotland to join the ABTC as an Advocate Advocates are practices who support the aims and values of the ABTC. They acknowledge and value the importance of animals’ psychological well-being and support the use of kind, ethical and evidence based methods in all interactions What is it? The Animal Behaviour and Training [...]
Dr Carolyn Cairns has just completed a practical day-course in Abdominal Ultrasound, consolidating nicely all that she had learned on the summer on-line Ultrasound course. This was a small group of just 12 vets, with 7 willing and very well-behaved dogs on which to practice. The dogs were owned by some of the vets attending and all were very happy [...]
Did you know that a cat over the age of 8 is considered to be senior?! In dogs this is a bit more breed-dependant with giant dogs reaching their senior years aged around 6, and smaller dogs up to 8 or 9. Now that your pet is one of our senior citizens, we would recommend booking them in for an [...]
We understand it is stressful when you have to bring your cat to see us. This is why we are proud to have been accredited as an ISFM Cat Friendly Clinic – Silver Award. The ISFM Cat Friendly Clinic accreditation is an internationally-recognised award. It means that we have met criteria to help minimise stress to your cat in our [...]
Recently, we arranged a training day for the whole team about how to maintain resilience in the face of what, as you might imagine, can be a very emotionally demanding job. The lovely Torphichen Inn hosted us for the workshop and kept us well fed and watered throughout the day. The session was set up and run by the brilliant [...]
Fiona and Paula headed off on a mammoth road trip on 23rd January to attend the annual SPVS Conference. This was being held in the beautiful Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales. The congress is the only one of its kind, in that there are no clinical lectures, it is all about managing the practice from leadership and mental [...]
Our vet Gina (who you may recall did a client talk on pet CPR recently) spent this Wednesday further honing her skills at an Emergency and Critical Care conference hosted by VetsNow in Glasgow. Whilst the topics of fluid therapy for patients in shock and decontamination of patients exposed to toxins were a good refresher of topics Gina was already [...]
Stuart travelled to the Accesia Academy in Sweden to attend their course on Oral Surgery - Reconstruction and Plastics. The journey was fairly simple with a quick easyJet hop from Edinburgh to Copenhagen, and then a train journey across The Bridge (featured in a famous TV show) into Sweden and then North to Halmstad. On arrival it was cold, wet [...]
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Unit 42
Mill Road Industrial Estate
Linlithgow
EH49 7SF
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Corstorphine
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