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Thank you for registering your horse with Hook Norton Veterinary Group. We have enclosed some information to assist you when communicating and working with our practice. If you need a vet, wish to make an appointment, order drugs or have a general enquiry, our Reception Team will be pleased to help you. The Reception and Shop at our Hook Norton Surgery is open 8.00am to 6.30pm Monday - Friday and 8.00am to 12.30pm on Saturday. Kind regards, HNVG Contents: Page 2 Meet the vets Page 4 Equine services Page 7 XLVets Page 8 Zone visits Page 10 Reception & shop Page 11 Contact information Page 12 Directions Page 14 Emergency service Page 15 Equine visit charges Page 16 Payment terms Page 17 Terms and Conditions Page 20 Privacy policy Welcome to our practice WWW.HOOKNORTONVETS.CO.UK MEET THE VETS Director Tom Righton Sam Cutts BVSc, MRCVS MA, VetMB, MRCVS Nancy Homewood Sally Hodgson BSc (Hons), MA, VetMB, Cert Senior Equine Vet, AVP (EM), MRCVS BVetMed, Cert AVP, MRCVS Fiona Eliott Lizzie Royce BVSc, MRCVS BVSc, MRCVS Beky Eastland-Jones Charlotte Willoughby BVetMed MRCVS BVSc, MRCVS Sam Wheeler BVMSci (Hons), MRCVS 2 Sam graduated from Cambridge in 2010 and joined our Equine team in 2012 and became a Practice Director in 2017. She is one of a handful of Equine Vets ever to have competed at CCI***** level and is thus uniquely placed to understand competition horses and help them to perform at their very best. She has a keen interest in lameness and poor performance, as well as head of our reproduction team. Sam is also an FEI Permitted Treating Veterinarian, Racecourse Veterinary Surgeon and heads up our International Export Department. Tom qualified from Liverpool University in 2011 and joined the team in 2014. He has previously worked in a mixed practice in Worcestershire and has a special interest in orthopaedic work as well as lameness work ups and wound management. Tom likes to follow national hunt racing/point to point and spends his spare time mountain biking. Nancy joined the equine team in 2010. She has a keen interest in equine sports medicine and the health of the racehorse. Nancy is one of our duty vets at Stratford Race Meetings and also covers local point to points and events. She is also our official JMB measurer. In 2017, Nancy completed her Post Graduate RCVS Certificate in Advanced Veterinary Practice. Nancy has volunteered for the Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust and the ‘Vets With Horsepower’ Team. Nancy enjoys all aspects of equine veterinary work, particularly internal medicine, ophthalmology, and dentistry. She is also qualified to treat horses with Acupuncture for a variety of musculo-skeletal conditions. Outside of work Nancy enjoys walking her dogs and triathlon training. Sally qualified in 2007 and has worked in equine practice ever since, joining the Hook Norton Veterinary Group in 2010. She completed her Certificate in Advanced Veterinary Practice in 2016, which is a modular, online, post-graduate certificate that covers all equine aspects. Sally is also the practice representative on the XLEquine Executive Board. Sally has two spaniels, Spudge and Evie, and a driving pony, Ivor. Fiona joined the Equine team in 2004. Since starting a family she works at the practice two days a week. She has a particular interest in Sports Horse work and is trained in acupuncture as well as veterinary chiropractic. Along with her husband, Fiona runs Radway Equine Rehabilitation Centre with a cold salt water hydrotherapy spa. Out of work hours, she enjoys spending time with her family. Lizzie qualified at Bristol University. When not at work Lizzie is kept very busy with her two event horses, including a very naughty 4 year old chestnut mare! Be sure to say hello to Isabella, her little Jack Russel Terrier, who accompanies her on routine visits. Charlotte graduated from Bristol University, where she then stayed to complete an internship in veterinary medicine, imaging, and surgery. Charlotte has also undertaken a placement at a well-known stud farm, in both the UK and Australia, developing her interest in reproductive medicine. Outside of work Charlotte can be found riding her old event horse, who is refusing to retire to a life of dressage Sam qualified from the University of Surrey. His main interests lie in equine reproduction and he subsequently spent the summer of 2019 working at an artificial insemination and embryo transfer centre in Belgium. Sam is originally from Cornwall and when not working can be found either playing rugby or surfing. 3 EXPORT TESTING & PAPERWORK: We are lucky to have a large team of accredited Official Veterinarians, headed by Sam Cutts. They are all very experienced in carrying out the required testing and completing the paperwork required to send horses all over the world. Wherever you would like to send your horse, we are happy to help! GASTROSCOPY: Gastroscopy is used to assess the stomach of horses to diagnose disorders such as equine gastric ulcer syndrome. We have the latest Equine video endoscopes enabling our vets to assess the oesophagus (gullet), the stomach and the first part of the small intestine (duodenum) to undertake a complete assessment of your horse. Services MOBILE DIGITAL X-RAY: Our wireless, portable, digital x-ray system offers exceptional quality images in a matter of seconds which can quickly and easily be emailed Over the next few pages you will see around the world, whether it be to a purchaser abroad or to your farrier! some the services we offer. If you would like any more information then please OFFICIAL MEASUREMENT: contact us and speak to one of our We have a JMB (Joint Measurement Board) approved measuring pad at receptionists or equine vets. the Clinic and Nancy Homewood is on the JMB panel of Official Measurers. We accept measures from both clients and non-clients – please contact us on 01608 730085 to book a measurement or to find out more about what is required. All measures must be booked and paid for online before ACUPUNCTURE: the appointment via the official JMB website: www.thejmbonline.co.uk. These treatments are available both at the surgery and at home by Equine Vets Fiona Elliot and Nancy Homewood who are fully trained LAMENESS & POOR PERFORMANCE INVESTIGATIONS: and members of the ABVA. Acupuncture alleviates soft tissue pain We offer a mobile and clinic based lameness investigation service with (either primary damage to muscles or secondary strain due to pain our highly experienced team. Whilst many lamenesses can quickly be in the skeleton). It can be used alongside or instead of physiotherapy. diagnosed and resolved ‘on yard’, more complex or subtle lamenesses, Conditions that can be treated include sore backs (either direct muscle as well as poor performance investigations, often benefit from coming in damage or and secondary pain due to kissing spines or hind limb to our clinic where we have a hard trot up, lunge pad and stocks, as well arthritis), muscle tears or strains, even generalised conditions that lead as all our diagnostic equipment. As these cases can take several hours to stiff muscles such as laminitis. to properly work up, many clients find it convenient to leave their horses with us for the day, thereby avoiding the need (and expense!) of taking DENTISTRY: time off work. All of our Equine Vets are very experienced in examining and floating teeth to ensure your horse is comfortable both now and in the future. Here at Hook Norton we understand the pressures facing modern Being Veterinary Surgeons gives us the option of sedating your horse if he competition horses –our team include vets who compete and own horses or she finds the visit at all stressful and thus allows us to achieve the best at the highest levels and we pride ourselves on a truly holistic approach, result with a relaxed, happy horse. Wolf teeth extractions are routinely working closely with farriers, physiotherapists and other complementary carried out ‘on yard’ whilst more complex cases (particularly non wolf therapists. teeth extractions) are brought into our surgery. For the cases requiring state of the art techniques we work closely with referral surgeons, We understand that there is an ever smaller division between the particularly Dr. Chris Pearce MRCVS who visits our clinic on a regular top placings whether it be dressage, eventing, showjumping, racing, basis. endurance or driving, and we have vets with specific interests and experience across the disciplines to help ensure your horse is performing DIGITAL ENDOSCOPY: at their optimum. We have a variety of fibreoptic endoscopes enabling us to visualise the horse’s upper airway, nasal passages, guttural pouches, teeth, sinuses We recommend start, mid and end of season checks particularly for and bladder. Tracheal washes and bronchoalveolar lavages (BALs) are upper level athletes – please contact the clinic on 01608 730085 if you also part of our routine diagnostics. have any questions or would like to discuss an assessment. 4 CLASS 4 LASER SURGERY: PORTABLE DIGITAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY: Our surgical laser team, headed by Tom Righton, handles an ever Our portable digital ultrasound machine allows us to capture very high growing surgical caseload with outstanding results. Many sarcoids can quality images of the tendons and ligaments of your horse’s legs. This be removed under standing sedation with local anaesthetic, although can lead us to diagnose specific conditions, assess level of injury and to horses with multiple sarcoids or those which are difficult to access may form treatment plans for your horse. Rehabilitation of some injuries can require a short general anaesthetic. Our surgical laser can also be used take a lot of time to heal, and repeat ultrasound scans help the equine to remove melanomas and other growths – please contact the Surgery vets to assess repair of the soft tissue along the way.