HS Cardiology

20/06/2024

A whole year of being recognised as a Cat Friendly Clinic!

A huge well done to the whole team who all go above and beyond to maintain our high cat friendly credentials and keep our feline patients as happy and stress free as possible 😻👏

30/04/2024

📢 Are you in the Liverpool, Preston or Manchester area? 📢

🎉 To conclude our month celebrating 10 years of HS Cardiology, we are thrilled to be able make another big announcement! 🎉

🖥 With the addition of Simon, and the growth of our Cardiology Clinician team, we are now in the fortunate position to be able to accept applications for new practice registrations.

🩺 We offer a friendly, specialist-led purely peripatetic cardiology referrals service. Seeing patients in your own practices gives many patients and clients the option to receive referral level cardiology care they might otherwise not be able to access, and as our testimonials show, our referring vets love the continuity of care it provides.

📍 Are you in the Liverpool, Preston or Manchester area, or the M6 corridor in between?

☕️ We'd love to chat you through our services and the way we work. If you're intrigued, please contact our practice manager on [email protected] and she'll arrange an informal chat so we can get to know each other!

29/04/2024

Starting our week with this lovely testimonial from Ruth and the team at . Thanks guys!

26/04/2024

Aw it was so lovely to see Willow!

It’s been a busy week. Here are some pictures of willow chilling out with Charlie before she had her heart work up.

Willow was a super star, straight up on the sofa for a cuddle and then she was the perfect patient whilst all her tests were carried out.

Thank you HS Cardiology for all your support this week.

Have a great weekend everyone ❤️

26/04/2024

🌟 Patient of the week! 🌟

Here is beautiful bengal Bagel who we met on Wednesday. He was so relaxed he had a snuggle with Charlie and Michelle, a groom, and settled himself down for a kip!

Thanks as ever to Shuttleworth Veterinary Group for hosting us and looking after us so well!

25/04/2024

🎉 As we continue to celebrate HS Cardiology's 10th anniversary, we promised you an update on our Cardiology Clinician Development Programme! 🎉

💭 Hannah’s dream was always to deliver affordable peripatetic cardiology services, firmly believing in the benefits this model gives clients, patients and the veterinary practices she supports. The high demand for her services is testament to the quality support she provides!

🫂 As you know, this has led to the close-knit team expanding in recent years to include 3 cardiologists, 3 cardiology nurses, a referrals coordinator, and the recent addition of a practice manager.

🚀 After a decade honing the service, we are thrilled to this year launch the next phase in our evolution. A carefully designed Cardiology Clinician Development Programme will give vets with the same passion for cardiology, thirst for knowledge and desire to excel in specialism the opportunity to join us in a dynamic and expanding sector of veterinary referral practice.

📢 The first round of recruitment generated a HUGE amount of interest and we're so excited to announce that in June we will welcome not one, but two trainees into our HS Cardiology family!!

📜 The scheme will support our trainees in becoming RCVS recognised Advanced Practitioners in Veterinary Cardiology, eventually working alongside us as Cardiology Clinicians. The structured programme will combine outstanding hands-on clinical training with an abundance of mentorship and mental health support, and propels the business into the next exciting 10 years of their journey. We can't wait to get started!

24/04/2024

Thanks so much to Sadie and the lovely team at for this testimonial. It's always lovely to visit and catch up!

23/04/2024

🔢 Our decade in numbers! 🔢

❓️Number of miles driven (now almost completely electric! ⚡️): 2️⃣8️⃣8️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣

❓️Our busiest month: 1️⃣4️⃣8️⃣ cases

❓️Our team members have grown from 1️⃣ to soon to be 1️⃣0️⃣!

❓️How many practices do we now visit? 1️⃣4️⃣0️⃣
Are you one of them? 🏨 Say hi! 👋⤵️

❓️How far apart are our furthest practices? 2️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ miles!

❓️How heavy was our biggest patient? 7️⃣0️⃣0️⃣kg
Gorry the Fresian horse 🐴

❓️How light was our smallest? 5️⃣6️⃣0️⃣g
Beatrice the kitten 🐈‍⬛️😻

❓️Number of cases seen: 7️⃣0️⃣6️⃣6️⃣!!

Thankyou so much for giving us the opportunity to help each and every one 🙏 We love what we do, and being able to make a difference!

Give us a like 👍 if you enjoyed this post!

22/04/2024

Here's a lovely testimonial from Kay at Medivet! We've watched the practice she and Ian have grown, go from strength to strength, and love visiting their shiny new premises! Thanks for all your support.

19/04/2024

Of course as part of our jobs, we sadly spend a lot of time with very poorly patients, doing our best to ensure their quality of life is excellent in what is often the last years or even months of their lives.

Making sure these patients, and also their owners are well supported, is one if the most important things we do.

This lovely review from Alison, just shows how much it is appreciated. We all remember Rosco really fondly.

18/04/2024

We have worked closely with Sarah, Alex and their dedicated team at for many years now. It's been lovely seeing their practice grow, and their impressive new premises reflect their dedication to patient care. Thanks for helping us celebrate with this lovely testimonial guys!

17/04/2024

This is the earliest picture we can find of Hannah scanning a patient, back when she was a resident at the University of Liverpool!

Lots of you have known Hannah for a long time - help us celebrate 10 years of HS Cardiology and see if you can send us any others!

16/04/2024

Here's another lovely testimonial from one of our referring vets Ornella, helping us continue our 10 year celebrations!

15/04/2024

❓️ Did you know, Hannah also runs the Breed Related Subcommittee of the Veterinary Cardiovascular Society, and we run regular dedicated screening days! These are so important for improving the health and welfare of some of our favourite breeds.

📢 These are always extremely popular but we are pleased to announce we have had a few rare slots become available on our next screening day!

This will take place on:
🗓 16th May
📍 Near Ormskirk, Lancashire.

Email [email protected] for more information on the screening process, specific breed requirements, cost and details of how to book in.

Please note, a deposit is required to secure the appointment.

12/04/2024

We are absolutely thrilled to introduce our newest team member Sarah Felix-Rogers, who joins us as Practice Manager! She's already made a huge difference getting us ship shape ready for the next decade of our journey! We so grateful to have her!

Sarah joins us after working at a referral veterinary hospital in the Northwest for the past 8 years, where she did a range of roles from Reception Team Leader and Support Service Deputy. Latterly she was on the senior leadership team in the role of HR, supporting people in anything and everything on a daily basis.

Working this wide range of roles within a referral practice developed her knowledge and understanding for the support both clients and referring practices need, and she now brings all that experience to us.

She says "I'm so happy to be joining HS Cardiology and really value the work they do supporting practices in the Northwest. I've been made to feel so welcome by the team and I look forward to support everyone in continuing to do the amazing job they already do on a day-to-day basis."

She lives in Chester, and in her spare time Sarah enjoys hanging out with her six year old son Max, husband Paul and eleven year old Working Cocker Spaniel, Boris. She enjoys playing netball, going to gigs; either comedy or music, and is always keen for a gin to be involved!

11/04/2024

We always love visiting the friendly team at Preston Capitol Vets4Pets and they frequently help us out by accommodating use seeing extra emergency patients. Anna and Tom sent us this lovely testimonial!

10/04/2024

We recently met super cute Buddy and diagnosed him with a complex congenital heart problem. We are grateful to work closely with many talented interventional cardiologist colleagues around the region. Buddy's lovely family sent us this lovely testimonial and photo!

09/04/2024

We've worked with Josh and the team at Medivet for many years now, so were delighted to receive this testimonial to kick off our 10 year celebrations! 🎉

08/04/2024

🎉🎂 Celebrating 10 years of HS Cardiology!! 🎂🎉

Today we launch a month long celebration as it is 10 years since Hannah launched HS Cardiology. Give us a like to celebrate with us! 👍

We'll be sharing some lovely testimonials (🤫 Hannah hasn't seen any of them yet!), as well as some facts and figures from our first decade, introducing our latest team member and an update on our Cardiology Clinician Development Programme!

Do you have any stories to share of how HS Cardiology have helped your pet or supported your practice? Is there anything you'd like to know about us, and our day to day? Drop us a comment! ⏬️

14/03/2024

Thanks everyone for your patience yesterday while the team attended a full day of coaching with the fabulous Libby Kemkaran-Thompson. We're the best we can be for our patients and clients, if we also dedicate time to our team.

We rounded the day off with a late (or early depending on your perspective!) Christmas meal, celebrating an amazing year and looking forwards to an exciting one to come. We were joined by 3 of the awesome locums who have helped us enormously this year - Mattia, Nikki and George. Thankyou so much as ever to all our extended HS Cardio family!

12/03/2024

**Please be aware!**

We are closed tomorrow (Wednesday 13th March) to allow all our staff to participate in training.

If you are a vet from a member practice, and you have an urgent/emergency enquiry, please contact the team on 01524 967100 and leave a message summarising your query.

For routine enquiries, please email [email protected] and we will get back to you on our return.

Thankyou so much in supporting us in this.

12/03/2024

Did you know ❓️❓️

🐾🐾 The Team at HS Cardiology are heavily involved in pre breeding screening programs for several breeds of dogs and cats, in conjunction with the Veterinary Cardiovascular Society. In fact Hannah heads the Cardiac Screening Advisory Group, who are a group of cardiologists working hard to improve the heart health of numerous breeds.

🗓 We run dedicated pre breeding screening clinics every 3-6 months, alternating between venues in Lancashire and the Scottish Borders.

✉️ Pre breeding screening is available in many breeds of cats and dogs; the requirements for screening vary between breeds of dogs, so for more information please email [email protected] and our team will be able to help.

💤 We always try to make the screening process as relaxing and stress-free for our patients as possible - take a look at the gorgeous Floyd showing how it is done!

Thank you to one of our lovely clients for allowing us to use this photo of Floyd! Tigerfeet Maine C***s

08/03/2024

🎉🎉 Celebrating today, and every day, the wonderful, inspiring women in our team, the wider veterinary community and those that came before us. 🎉🎉

07/03/2024

💜 Our Referral Service Coordinator Jodi has been keeping us organised for 18 months now! Jodi's job is extra challenging as she supports us remotely from Staffordshire! It means few of you get to meet her in person, so we thought it was time you got to know her a little better!

Did you know...?
👩‍⚕️ Jodi is also an experienced nurse, and qualified from Warwickshire College in 2006.
🐒 Her first nursing caesarean was on a capuchin monkey for Twycross zoo!
🫀 She worked at a busy veterinary referral centre for 12 years, which is where she found a love for cardiology.
⚕️Jodi has also worked for the NHS!
👦👦👦 When not at work, she is kept busy with three small children.

💜 As the number of practices we support and patients we visit, and the distances we travel to see them has increased (as well as the number of cardiologists!), Jodi's job has become ever more complex. Ensuring we are all in the right place at the right time, poorly patients are triaged and seen as quickly as possible and an ever changing list of repeat visits are all slotted in, is truly an artform.

Jodi we're so grateful to have you in our HS Cardiology family! 🙏

29/02/2024

Hello all!

🥳🎊🎉 We are soon to mark a BIG anniversary and we would love to celebrate by sharing some testimonials from those HS Cardiology have helped over the years!!

🐾🩺 Whether you are a client whose pet we were able to help, a veterinary practice we visit, or a vet who appreciates our advice, we'd be so grateful for reviews that we could share. 🙏🙏

🌐📧✍️ You can pm us on any of our platforms, email [email protected] or leave us an official review on our page. If you'd prefer they were anonymised, please just let us know!

28/02/2024

Lovely to see this news shared in the veterinary press (even if we missed it at the time 😂).

We're very proud to be the first peripatetic specialist service in the UK to be accredited as a Cat Friendly Clinic, as part of a worldwide scheme from the International Society of Feline Medicine.

Specialist-led mobile veterinary cardiology service HS Cardiology has become the UK's first cat-friendly mobile specialist service

09/02/2024

🗓 Just a reminder the closing date for this intake is the 16th February! We're so grateful for all the positive comments and interest this new position has prompted so far! We are able to be extremely flexible, so please do get in touch if you hace any questions about how this could work for you!

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🎉 The whole team is thrilled to launch our Cardiology Clinician Development Programme, and we are now accepting applications from vets looking to take the leap into specialist practice.

👩‍⚕️ The programme is being coordinated by Charlie. As many of you know, Charlie spent over a decade in general practice, supporting numerous vets in their careers, and since working at HS Cardiology has become an RCVS Advanced Practitioner in Veterinary Cardiology. She will be leading the pastoral side of the programme, and has keen interests in mentorship, widening participation and mental health.

👩‍⚕️ Hannah is our programme’s clinical lead. She has many years of experience in providing high quality teaching in all aspects of cardiology, and prides herself on her hands on approach.

✍️ We have carefully designed a structured training programme which has the scope to support vets with a wide range of experiences, and that can be tailored to individual needs. We feel passionately about providing alternative routes to working in specialist practice, and are proud to be able to complement our development route with a highly desirable quality of life. Our participants will become experienced and skilled Advanced Practitioners, with the option of a long-term place within our HS Cardiology family. 🧡

💜 Our programme will have a staggered intake, so we are able to accommodate multiple candidates.

✉️ Please do therefore share this post with anyone you think may be interested, even if the timing is not immediately perfect. We’d love to hear from a wide range of people, and are happy to chat about the flexibility we can offer in more detail.

👍 We'd also really appreciate any likes, comments and shares of this post. You never know, it may just result in someone finding their dream job!

02/02/2024

🗓 Just a reminder the closing date for this intake is the 16th February! We're so grateful for all the positive comments and interest this new position has prompted so far!

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🎉 The whole team is thrilled to launch our Cardiology Clinician Development Programme, and we are now accepting applications from vets looking to take the leap into specialist practice.

👩‍⚕️ The programme is being coordinated by Charlie. As many of you know, Charlie spent over a decade in general practice, supporting numerous vets in their careers, and since working at HS Cardiology has become an RCVS Advanced Practitioner in Veterinary Cardiology. She will be leading the pastoral side of the programme, and has keen interests in mentorship, widening participation and mental health.

👩‍⚕️ Hannah is our programme’s clinical lead. She has many years of experience in providing high quality teaching in all aspects of cardiology, and prides herself on her hands on approach.

✍️ We have carefully designed a structured training programme which has the scope to support vets with a wide range of experiences, and that can be tailored to individual needs. We feel passionately about providing alternative routes to working in specialist practice, and are proud to be able to complement our development route with a highly desirable quality of life. Our participants will become experienced and skilled Advanced Practitioners, with the option of a long-term place within our HS Cardiology family. 🧡

💜 Our programme will have a staggered intake, so we are able to accommodate multiple candidates.

✉️ Please do therefore share this post with anyone you think may be interested, even if the timing is not immediately perfect. We’d love to hear from a wide range of people, and are happy to chat about the flexibility we can offer in more detail.

👍 We'd also really appreciate any likes, comments and shares of this post. You never know, it may just result in someone finding their dream job!

01/02/2024

Fantastic post here from our friends Heartvets . Counting sleeping breathing rates is something we very commonly ask our owners to do. Here's some more details...

31/01/2024

What a great team effort. This really is what peripatetic cardiology work is all about. A fantastic outcome for Milly. Thanks so much to the talented ChesterGates Veterinary Specialists team!

This is Milly 🥰

Little Milly was diagnosed with a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) by HS Cardiology after her vets at VetCare Leigh heard a heart murmur. A PDA is a connection between two major blood vessels, the pulmonary artery and the aorta - this is a normal part of the foetal circulation, but it should close shortly after a puppy is born. In some dogs, the connection doesn’t close properly, causing a heart murmur. If left untreated, heart failure can develop.

Milly came to Chestergates Veterinary Specialists for closure of her PDA as she was a tiny 2.6kg. Liz and the team are trained to be able to close such anomalous vessels via a minimally invasive approach in very small dogs. Milly was a particular challenge, being the smallest dog Liz had operated on! Together with the assistance of cardiology RVN Simmy Bennett (seen in the picture with Milly), they placed an Amplatz vascular plug with Milly under general anaesthetic to close the PDA. The Amplatz plug is a device made for humans but can be utilised in small dogs. The plug was inserted via a long catheter that entered through a small incision in a vein in Milly’s leg.

Milly’s anaesthetic plan was tailored especially for her by our dedicated anaesthesia team and monitored by the talented Ffion, who you met yesterday. Our soft tissue surgery team was on stand by in case conversion to a thoracotomy (entering Milly’s chest) was required. This can sometimes be needed if the PDA is too small to be closed with a plug, however in Milly’s case, Liz and Simmy were able to successfully place the plug under fluoroscopic guidance.

Milly did extremely well throughout her anaesthesia and procedure. Her recovery was supported by our wonderful wards team with plenty of cuddles and biscuits! She was up and eating the same evening and was able to return home to her family the next day.

We love seeing patients like Milly; our multi-disciplinary team here at Chestergates ensure we can give the very best care to complex cases like hers. Thank you to HS Cardiology and to VetCare Leigh for referring Milly to us; she was a pleasure to care for!