What affects us affects cats
UK Veterinary Care Costs Rising: Over Half of Pet Owners Skipping Vet Visits, Raising Alarms. In a concerning trend that highlights growing barriers to pet healthcare, more than 50% of UK pet owners have reportedly skipped essential veterinary visits over the past year due to rising costs. This statistic, emerging from recent industry surveys …
An anonymous UK vet recently claimed that they have to earn more per pet patient. It was reported on the BBC evening news. It caught my eye but is in alignment with many earlier reports on the vet business in the UK which has allegedly tended to become greedier thanks to corporate buyouts of …
NEWS AND VIEWS: This is the first strike that has ever occurred according to the union ‘Unite’ at a UK private veterinary practice and it is a consequence, allegedly, of greed by the private equity-owned operator: VetPartners, which owns the vet practice called Valley Vets in south Wales. This is an extension of a …
There has been a lot of criticism of those UK vets who’ve given up as sole traders and sold out to big business and become part of a chain of clinics. The accusation is that these big businesses are pressuring the once independent vets to charge more for medicines and services because big business …
