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Core Cognition CPD with Gillian

Team Westport recently held a full day in-house CPD for the team with the topic of Performance Under Pressure! The course was provided by Core Cognition, and presented by the brilliant Dr Stephen Hearns and Professor Patrick Pollock. Dr Hearns is a Consultant with Scotland's Medical Retrieval Service, and Professor Pollock is a Professor of Veterinary Surgery and Remote and [...]

2024-10-17T08:45:26+00:00October 17th, 2024|

Core Cognition CPD with Hannah R

We recently held a CPD on Sunday in January which was focusing around Performance Under Pressure with Dr Stephen Hearns. Stephen is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and is the lead consultant for Scotland’s Emergency Medical Retrieval Service - so it’s fair to say that he’s had to face a lot of high pressure situations. There were 21 [...]

2024-10-17T08:41:19+00:00October 17th, 2024|

SPVS with Chloe

A few members of Team Westport went down to SPVS in Birmingham for the annual congress - this year's theme was "Smarter Working". In January, myself - Chloe (Senior Nurse South Queensferry) and some of our management team - Fiona (Clinical Manager), Paula (Head Nurse Linlithgow), and Leigh - went down to SPVS in Birmingham for a 3 day [...]

2024-10-17T07:33:11+00:00October 17th, 2024|

Guinea Pig Awareness Week 2024

Guinea Pig Awareness Week (GPAW) is an annual campaign, brought to you by Burgess Pet Care, aimed at educating pet owners about the five welfare needs of guinea pigs. This year’s theme is Nibble, Nourish and Thrive. Traditionally guinea pigs have been thought of as children’s pets but while it’s lovely for children to enjoy the company of [...]

2024-09-26T16:17:57+00:00September 26th, 2024|

Acupuncture with Rachel – Harry’s Case

We started seeing Harry for chronic pain issues in February 2021 and was diagnosed with elbow issues when he was still a young dog. Now as he has aged this had progressed to arthritic changes. At first Harry was pretty worried about coming to the vets but over time this has improved hugely and he is very excited to [...]

2024-09-26T16:09:58+00:00September 26th, 2024|

In The Community

Here at Westport Vets we are always excited when we can get involved with community and charity events. Here’s a snapshot of our recent commitment to our community. Head vet Stuart hosted an informative visit at our Linlithgow practice to P1 pupils from Linlithgow Bridge Primary School. Children discovered all about what happens in the clinic and were given [...]

2024-09-26T15:50:59+00:00September 26th, 2024|

We are an Endometriosis Friendly Employer

Westport Veterinary Clinic is pleased to announce they are the first veterinary practice in the UK to sign up and become an Endometriosis Friendly Employer. Working alongside the UK’s leading endometriosis charity, Endometriosis UK, Westport Vets pledges to help drive positive change within the workplace for those colleagues suffering with endometriosis. The Endometriosis Friendly Employer scheme provides guidance on [...]

2024-09-17T14:45:37+00:00September 17th, 2024|

Westport’s Journey to Becoming a Fear Free Practice

Vet Hannah, in her first blog takeover, talks about Westport’s hugely exciting project to become Scotland’s first accredited Fear Free practice. Becoming Fear Free For many pets and their owners, seeing the vet can be a stressful experience and we at Westport Veterinary Clinic want to be part of the revolution that changes this. We are already a recognised Dog [...]

2024-09-17T14:22:09+00:00September 17th, 2024|

VetsNow CPD with Andrew

Andrew recently attended a full day CPD hosted by VetsNow covering assessment of emergency cases and a practical CPR refresher session. VetsNow provides Westport with expert out of hours care for our clients at their Edinburgh clinic, and also operates a specialist referral hospital in Glasgow for management of more complex cases. Mercifully, the need to perform CPR is [...]

2024-09-12T12:32:55+00:00September 12th, 2024|

Race for Life 2024

The team at Westport Vets have raised over £2000 for Cancer Research! On Sunday 5th May, some of the team at Westport Vets took part in Cancer Research Race for Life at Hopetoun House. The run kicked off at 11am with some of our team running and some walking the 5k and 10k course. Taking part in team Westport [...]

2024-09-12T12:32:00+00:00September 12th, 2024|