HS Cardiology

08/02/2025

Zingy and Charlie both have a history of finding vet visits somewhat challenging. It's so rewarding when we can help them relax and show them it doesn't have to be stressful.

We build lots of time into our appointments so they don't feel rushed and we can take our investigations at their pace. We use pheromone therapy, low stress handling techniques, dark quiet rooms, some mood music, distractions or treats, and anti-anxiety medications where appropriate.

The result - chilled out patients, excellent image quality and results, happy owners and satisfied team! Well done to Zingy and Charlie, and thanks to Medivet Orrell Park for hosting us yesterday!

06/02/2025

We're proud to place the mental health of our team at the core of what we do. But we extend that hand to our whole community. We will always make time to talk if you need to - if we ask how you are, we really want to know!

💬Time to Talk Day💬

💚6th February 2025💚

➡️Time to Talk Day is the nation’s biggest mental health conversation. Taking place today, it’s the day that friends, families, communities, and workplaces come together to talk, listen and change lives.

💚We think it is fair to say that our profession has fair share of loss and hardships , the hard-working, compassionate work force have felt unimaginable pressures.

✅It is time to talk
✅It is time to support
✅We are a community

➡️If you have been walking a journey alone, a journey of anxiety, low moods, depression, burn out or exhaustion: please speak up today.

➡️Our profession holds ourselves to such high standards, we can be obsessive perfectionists, we can worry all night about our patients, we can let every cruel word in practice or social media eat away at us, we fight day in day out for the health and welfare of our patients, we encounter grief, loss, pain and suffering daily. We also have the privilege but intense pressure to diagnose, to heal, to treat, to medicate, to nurse and to love all our patients.

➡️Mental health is not a journey to travel alone, it is a common trait to isolate ourselves during these feelings but the community is here for you. And if you are not ready for that yet then Vetlife is there 24/7 on email or phone anonymously if required to chat and ease some of that burden on your shoulders.

💚Its Time to Talk Day 💚

💬 https://helpline.vetlife.org.uk/

05/02/2025

It's not often we can all get together! Hugely productive whole team meeting today, making exciting plans for the year and celebrating our achievements in the last.

We have big news of a BRAND NEW SERVICE launching next week! We can't wait to tell you about it!

10/01/2025

🫀 Does your 2025 include a resolution to get more in-house support for your Cardiology cases?

📍 If you are in the Liverpool, Preston or Manchester regions, we are taking on new practices!!

🎺 One of our NY promises to ourselves is to toot our own trumpet more! We're SO proud of our team and what we do, and believe what we offer is unique, but maybe we can do more to shout about it!

🙌 And we've reached Friday and the fifth in our continuing series highlighting just some of our strengths.

5️⃣We provide an abundance of support and ongoing care! We have a dedicated referrals coordinator and team members are at the end of the phone to help you with queries. But did you know we also follow up with our cases personally? How does this benefit your patients, clients and your vets? Swipe to find out more ➡️

👂 We'd love to hear from you too! If you're a practice who has benefitted from our support, or an owner whose pet we've helped, why not drop us a comment or even a review on FB! 👇

09/01/2025

🫀 Does your 2025 include a resolution to get more in-house support for your Cardiology cases?

📍 If you are in the Liverpool, Preston or Manchester regions, we are taking on new practices!!

🎺 One of our NY promises to ourselves is to toot our own trumpet more! We're SO proud of our team and what we do, and believe what we offer is unique, but maybe we can do more to shout about it!

🙌 Here's the forth (and perhaps most important) in our continuing series highlighting just some of our strengths.

4️⃣ Patient welfare is central to everything we do! We pride ourselves on our low-stress handling. But how does this benefit your patients? Swipe to find out more ➡️

👂 We'd love to hear from you too! If you're a practice who has benefitted from our support, or an owner whose pet we've helped, why not drop us a comment or even a review on FB! 👇

08/01/2025

🫀 Does your 2025 include a resolution to get more in-house support for your Cardiology cases?

📍 If you are in the Liverpool, Preston or Manchester regions, we are taking on new practices!!

🎺 One of our NY promises to ourselves is to toot our own trumpet more! We're SO proud of our team and what we do, and believe what we offer is unique, but maybe we can do more to shout about it!

🙌 Here's the third in our 5 day series highlighting just some of our strengths.

3️⃣ We bring the team! Unlike many peripatetic services, we travel with a team of highly experienced cardiology nurses. But how does this benefit you? Swipe to find out more ➡️

👂 We'd love to hear from you too! If you're a practice who has benefitted from our support, or an owner whose pet we've helped, why not drop us a comment or even a review on FB! 👇

07/01/2025

🫀 Does your 2025 include a resolution to get more in-house support for your Cardiology cases?

📍 If you are in the Liverpool, Preston or Manchester regions, we are taking on new practices!!

🎺 One of our NY promises to ourselves is to toot our own trumpet more! We're SO proud of our team and what we do, and believe what we offer is unique, but maybe we can do more to shout about it!

🙌 So here the second in a new 5 day series highlighting just some of our strengths.

2️⃣ We're fully mobile and bring all the gear! But how does this benefit your patients, clients and practice? Swipe to find out more ➡️

👂 We'd love to hear from you too! If you're a practice who has benefitted from our support, or an owner whose pet we've helped, why not drop us a comment or even a review on FB! 👇

06/01/2025

🫀 Does your 2025 include a resolution to get more in-house support for your Cardiology cases?

📍 If you are in the Liverpool, Preston or Manchester regions, we are taking on new practices!!

🎺 One of our NY promises to ourselves is to toot our own trumpet more! We're SO proud of our team and what we do, and believe what we offer is unique, but maybe we can do more to shout about it!

🙌 So here is a new 5 day series highlighting just some of our strengths.

1️⃣ First up! Our team are all highly-trained and we are specialist-led! But what do the qualifications really mean? Swipe to find out more ➡️

👂 We'd love to hear from you too! If you're a practice who has benefitted from our support, or an owner whose pet we've helped, why not drop us a comment or even a review on FB! 👇

03/01/2025

As we say goodbye to 2024 we are also sadly saying goodbye to Simon.

Simon is hopefully currently relaxing in Portugal ☀️ as he deservedly tries to work less and play more!

We're sure everyone who met Simon knows what a fantastic clinician he is and we’re really sorry he couldn’t be part of the team for longer. We wish you all the best for the future, Simon! May the Force be with you!!

20/12/2024

🌲🌲 As we all gear up to a busy festive few weeks, Hannah, Charlie, Simon, Emma, Jodi, Michelle, Rachel, Sarah, Laurence and Lisa just wanted to wish you, and all your pets and patients a happy and safe holiday. 🌲🌲

🎅 As a peripatetic team, we have to get inventive to keep our communication top notch and ensure we all feel supported. Here's us in our last weekly team meeting of the year! 🧑‍🎄

💜 Thankyou so much for all your support in 2024, we've really enjoyed spending time with you all - to all the regular clinics we've visited, and a big welcome to some new ones! Southport Vets Vets4Pets Prescot Vets4Pets Leigh Capontree Vets Medivet Gatley Medivet Bromborough - Allport Vets Kirkby Vets Westbrook Vets - Warrington and Mount Vets! Phew!

It's been an exciting year welcoming Sarah and Rachel, and our new Cardiology Clinician Trainees, Laurence and Lisa. As we enter 2025 we look forwards to being there to provide your cardiology care. As we continue to grow, we remain proudly specialist led, and purely peripatetic. 💜

17/12/2024

📢 Newsflash!!

In response to demand, we will be holding our first 1-day Training course "Echocardiography - beyond the right side" in 2025.

Details to follow, but as places will be very limited, we wanted to give you the opportunity to register your interest early, and be the first to know when we open registration for this exclusive event.

This hands-on course will be suitable for cardiology certificate candidates, cardiology CertAVP holders and Advanced Practitioners who want to extend their echocardiography skills. Vets who have already undertaken some echocardiography training, with a high cardiology case load, are also likely to find this course invaluable.

📧 Please email [email protected] to register your interest, and we will be in touch with more information!

16/12/2024

🎄With Christmas just around the corner, we wanted to give everyone plenty of notice of our festive opening hours. 🎁

13/12/2024

It is with sadness that the HS Cardiology family have to say goodbye to Nikki! 💔

Nikki has been working with HS Cardiology for so long that none of us can actually remember when she started! Nikki joined as a locum RVN helping Hannah once a week when she still had tiny baby children, to make the days run more smoothly.

Many of you will have met her when she’s been with us on a Monday helping out with all our patients, especially the grumpier cats, who are her speciality! Nikki has been offered a full time role at her ‘day’ job, a testament to her dedication to all things cardiology.

Nikki, we will all miss you, but we’ll be seeing you at cardiology events and conferences in future! 💜

10/10/2024

On we wanted to revisit a post about how we focus on the wellbeing of our team members.

An RCVS survey 📝 of vets found almost 90% report that veterinary work is stressful. Very often, vet professionals prioritise commitment to their patients & clients, above their own health & wellbeing. It’s so important to remember however, that if we don’t look after ourselves, ensuring we are healthy, fulfilled & sufficiently rested, we can’t give our best to our patients, clients & referring vets. 💚

💜 We are mental health aware 🔸️🔸️🔸️

Our health is central to our team ethos & this includes our MH. We check in daily with each other so we can be mindful of how each member is doing. 💑 We have team members trained in MH 1st aid, & encourage open communication, with no stigma or judgement.

💜 We have autonomy 🔸️🔸️🔸

We’re trusted to do our job, work our hours, & do our best.

💜 We have passion 🔸️🔸️🔸️

We all do this job because we 💖 cardiology. It makes our brains happy. We’re happiest on a learning curve, & there’s always more to learn!

💜 We have time 🔸️🔸️🔸️

We build ⏳️ in, ensuring we have space to dedicate to our patients, clients & our referring vets. We finish our day feeling we’ve done our jobs to the best of our ability.

💜 We have work-life balance 🔸️🔸️🔸️

We’re encouraged to fully switch off, and enjoy time away from work, to recharge & look forwards to our work time. It’s vital our team have energy left to enjoy family, gym, hiking, friendships, travel, cooking, gardening, creating…

💜 We have an amazing team 🔸️🔸️🔸️

We’re a close bunch and enjoy our time together. We seek to understand each other as individuals, with unwavering non judgemental support. We all have different things to offer & much to give. We help each other out wherever we can, but respect each person’s boundaries too. 🥰

💜 We care about the wider community 🔸️🔸️🔸️

We care deeply about the MH and wellbeing of the Veterinary community. Our inbox is always open, the virtual kettle can go on. Please always reach out if you need to talk.

27/09/2024

🌟 Patient of the Day 🌟

Here's lovely Poppy enjoying an ear rub and a snooze today while she had her heart investigations. It was a real treat meeting her and her delightful owners.

Thanks to Paragon Vets in Newbiggjn for hosting us today. And a HUGE thanks to
who kindly referred Poppy to us - welcome to the HSC family!

25/09/2024

You can rest assured that all our patients get the VIP TLC! 🥰

Thanks to for hosting us today.

07/08/2024

🌟 Patient of the week! 🌟

Here is lovely little Ellie May who we met today with her owners Michael and Phyllis. She was so relaxed having her investigations with Charlie and Rachel.

And big thanks to Southport Vets who we've recently welcomed to the HS Cardio family, for hosting us and looking after us so well!