Rosie's update - ten years on
We love hearing from our former patients! ❤
Rosie’s owners recently shared a heartwarming update—ten years after she received treatment for a liver shunt at Langford Vets by Vicki Black from canine medicine and Lee Meakin from our soft tissue surgery team.
Now, a decade later, Rosie is thriving! She recently completed the South West Coast Path walk with her family. 'She is a wonderful companion—so fit and healthy!” her owners shared. We couldn’t be happier for Rosie and her incredible journey.
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Applications are open until 8th January for Langford Vets’ 56-week rotating internship at the Small Animal Referral Hospital. You will rotate through our core disciplines of Medicine, Soft Tissue Surgery, Orthopaedics, Emergency and Critical Care, Anaesthesia, Imaging and Neurology. In addition, you will support our first opinion out-of-hours service, and have elective time to spend on other disciplines of your choice as well as weekly teaching sessions.
Learn more about the role, read about the benefits of working with us, and hear testimonials from previous interns: https://www.langfordvets.co.uk/work-with-us/rotating-interns/
As an exciting new feature for 2025, our internship programme will kick off with a four-week intensive training course organised by our Langford Academy to ensure you are fully prepared for the year ahead! This course will include a fantastic mix of hands-on practical training, case-based teaching and engaging lectures all aimed at elevating your skills and setting you up for success.
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Langford Vets Advent Calendar
Don't miss out on your chance to enter our Langford Vets Advent Calendar Competition🎄
With Christmas around the corner we have a festive treat for you! Sign up to receive our Langford Vets Virtual Advent Calendar and be entered into our competition! With every advent calendar email you open you'll earn 1 entry into our exciting prize draw for the chance to win a hamper packed with goodies!🎁
Plus, every advent email reveals some of our special offers, upcoming events and helpful tips for keeping your animals healthy and happy this winter❄️
Sign up today to receive our virtual calendar and be in with the chance to win: https://mailchi.mp/c26c17e19ade/langford-vets-advent-calendar
Langford Vets - Multidisciplinary specialist care for your pets
🐾 Teamwork is at the heart of exceptional pet care! 🐾
At a veterinary teaching hospital, your beloved pet can benefit from multidisciplinary specialist care - a collaborative approach where experts across various fields come together to provide tailored treatment. 🩺
Your pet deserves a team of dedicated professionals working to give them the very best chance at a happy, healthy life. Watch our video featuring Leo to find out more about our team and how we are best placed to help your pet! 🐶🐱
🎄Langford Vets Advent Calendar Competition🎄Unwrap Your Chance to Win!
With Christmas around the corner we have a festive treat for you! Sign up to receive our Langford Vets Virtual Advent Calendar and be entered into our competition! With every advent calendar email you open you'll earn 1 entry into our exciting prize draw for the chance to win a hamper packed with goodies!🎁
Plus, every advent email reveals some of our special offers, upcoming events and helpful tips for keeping your animals healthy and happy this winter❄️
Sign up today to receive our virtual calendar and be in with the chance to win: https://mailchi.mp/c26c17e19ade/langford-vets-advent-calendar
Could your pet benefit from Specialist care?
🐾 Could your pet benefit from Specialist care? 🐾
In this video, our senior receptionist Izzy discusses:
🔹 What a Veterinary Specialist is and how they can complement your primary care vet
🔹 How the referral process works
🔹 What to expect during your visit
Whether it’s emergency medicine, surgery, or another area of expertise, a Specialist can make a difference to you and your pet's care. Here at Langford Vets Small Animal Referral Hospital we are proud to offer the largest number of Specialists in the South West. Watch our video now to learn more! 🐶🐱
In Pet Cancer Awareness Month we are thinking of our patients and their owners, both past and present. We know that a cancer diagnosis is never wanted, but we will continue to strive to give all our patients the best possible quality of life.
Thank you to those owners who have recently shared their happy times with us!
#PetCancerAwarenessMonth #Oncology #Veterinary #VeterinaryHospital
Langford Vets Twilight Theatre Nursing Vacancies
We have two exciting new Twilight Theatre Nurse positions in our Small Animal Referral Hospital. The successful candidates will be based in our specialist theatres, working out of hours throughout the week. Although this role is primarily theatre based an ability and proactiveness to nurse in ward areas with inpatient care would be expected when required. This would involve working across our specialist feline, canine medicine, neurology, surgery and intensive care wards.
For more information and to apply: https://www.langfordvets.co.uk/work-with-us/twilight-theatre-nurse-x2/
Closing date: 15/11/2024
Our Rehabilitation and Pain Management team work closely with the Neurology and Nursing teams to provide physiotherapy treatment to our neurology patients during their hospital stay. We see patients recovering from surgery to treat compressive spinal cord injuries as well as patients with non-surgical conditions.
In the acute stages of rehabilitation, we help to maintain and improve mobility and function, maintain range of movement and prevent complications associated with reduced mobility. We do this by doing passive and active exercises, using assistive walking harnesses and aids and other equipment to help our patients get up and move safely.
When the patient is ready to go home, we provide a personalised home exercise and management plan and meet or speak with their owner to go through everything with them. We also provide follow up physiotherapy care depending on each individual patient.
We often spend a lot of time with our neurology patients and it’s really rewarding to see them improve over the weeks and months during their recovery.
Langford Vets 2024 Vet Nurse Congress
This week we held our 2024 Vet Nurse Congress with lectures delivered by our amazing multidisciplinary nursing team!
Thank you to all those who attended our event and to this year’s sponsors who helped make this such a fantastic day!
Our 2024 Vet Nurse Congress Sponsors:
The Langford Trust for Animal Health & Welfare Pioneer Veterinary Products Pennine Veterinary Boehringer Ingelheim IMV imaging GB & Ireland Vet Times Summit Vetoquinol UK Covetrus UK Eschmann Technologies Ltd
We tackle creatures great and small at Langford Vets. Patients presenting with cruciate ligament injuries are very common but our tiny patients and giant breeds often present their own unique challenges.
Parker is a 4kg Chihuahua with suffering from a severe bilateral hind limb lameness caused by grade III/IV medial patella luxation with concurrent cranial cruciate rupture. Investigations included radiographs and CT examination to assess for angular deformities. Staged procedures were performed by our senior surgeon Alex Belch with Junior Orthopaedic Clinician Alex Chan. A 2mm TPLO and patellar groove replacement was performed on each stifle six weeks apart. Parker has recovered brilliantly from the procedures and is back to running around!
At the other end of the spectrum, Ria a 70kg Leonburger presented with bilateral cruciate rupture last year. In this instance the surgery was performed by our senior orthopaedic surgeon Nicolas assisted by our surgical resident Dan Lomas. In this instance a TPLO was performed using a 4.5mm locking plate and screws. We have the cutting edge facilities to allow us to safely move patients of this size through from anaesthesia to radiography to surgery. This is not only important for the patient, but also for the health and safety of our team. Having many specialist surgical nurses and animal care assistants allowed Ria to stay comfortably overnight before being discharged the following day.
Breagha was treated at Langford Vets for minimally invasive coil embolisation of an intrahepatic shunt. Here is her story in her owner’s words
