Vets
The surgery currently employs six vets. Each vet brings to the team their own areas of special interest and expertise which allows us to offer such a wide range of services.
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Richard BraggBSc BVSc MRCVS
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Vicky StewartBVSc MRCVS
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Pippa SimesBVetmed MRCVS
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Richard has been a director of Vale Vets since 1999 having been a full time member of the veterinary team since 1994. He enjoys all aspects of first opinion veterinary work and is an excellent surgeon. He has developed an additional interest in tortoises and veterinary acupuncture in dogs and cats. At home he is kept busy with 2 daughters and an ever growing menagerie of cats, tortoises, guinea pigs and chickens.
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Vicky enjoys medicine cases and leads the diagnostic imaging in the practice. She has special interests both in radiology and ultrasonography, both widely utilised within the practice. She has recently purchased a period property which she shares with her cat Archie and which requires renovation and a lot of gardening. She is also a keen traveller.
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Pippa grew up in Portishead and has had a long association with the practice. She enjoys medicine and surgery and values providing a first class veterinary service. She and her husband Richard, enjoy sailing and other water sports, however those may have to go on hold for a while as they are now the proud new parents of a gorgeous baby boy - Charlie. Pippa is currently on maternity leave.
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Helen BraggBSc BVSc MRCVS VetMFHom
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Susan Warren-CoxBVSc MRCVS
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Judith GlushanokBVSc MRCVS
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Helen enjoys caring for both medical and surgical cases and has developed a great interest in an integrated approach to our pet's health and well being. She is one of only 60 vets in the country to be qualified in veterinary homeopathy. She also has an interest in animal nutrition. She works part time at the practice - the rest of her time being taken up with Richard, her husband, children, pets, church, gardening and cooking and of course her ginger cat Thomas.
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Susan is one of the practice's most experienced vets and enjoys both consulting and surgery. She has undertaken further study and is now fully qualified in veterinary chiropractic manipulation, allowing for an integrative approach to caring for our pets. She works part time at the practice and when not here is caring for her husband Sean and their son Joshua, born May 2007, so the time is full of baby swim and toddler groups! Not forgetting Wookie, a long haired, scruffy, slightly overweight but very handsome rescue cat.
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Judith joined us in January 2008 as a part time member of staff, having previously owned and run her own practice. We have known Judith for many years and her clinical interest are cats and cat's medicine. She is very active out of work with ice dancing, singing and skiing.
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Louise AlexanderBSc BVSc MRCVS
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Jennifer BohannonBVSc MRCVS
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Louise is our newest member of the team and is filling in for Pippa while she is away having a baby. She has a keen interest in feline medicine and is kept very busy at home looking after her two rescue cats Maurice and Margo. In her spare time Louise enjoys gardening and photography, as well as shopping!
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Jennifer joined the practice in April 2009 as a part time clinician. Her main interest is imaging; she was awarded the RCVS Certificate in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging in October 2008. She is a great asset to our team and enjoys all aspects of veterinary practice.
At home, Jen is kept occupied by 2 young children and is trying her hand at 'grow your own' in the veggie patch.
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Laboratory Technician
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Liz BurdenBSc HND
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Liz is our Laboratory Technician who works part time at the Practice. She enables the vets to get results for many laboratory tests quicker than sending samples to an outside laboratory. She and her husband Peter have a vast menagerie of animals and birds, including two Harris Hawks and a flock of rheas.
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Nurses
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Michelle PhillipsBSc RVN A1 Assessor
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Tracy CharlesRVN A1 Assessor
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Lisa SnowRVN A1 Assessor
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Michelle is our Head Nurse and in addition to the very hectic job of running the nursing side of the Practice, she is interested in animal behaviour and assists in the running of the puppy parties. Her pets are on the small side - mice and newts!
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Tracy is Michelle's invaluable assistant and together with her nursing duties is responsible for co-ordinating training of the unqualified nursing staff. Her outside interests include cats and all sport especially squash.
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Lisa is our consulting Practice Nurse and is responsible for nurse clinics, post operative checks, weight clinics and general advice. She has been with us for eight years, starting here as the cleaner and after a great deal of hard work and study, qualified as a nurse. She and her partner Andy have a young whippet, Sally and couple of cockatiels rehomed from the Practice.
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Client care team
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Janet Watts
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Penny Beattie
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Bev Knowles
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Janet is our Head Receptionist responsible for the smooth running of the reception team. Janet's spare time is taken up with her husband Dave, grandchildren and of course most important Jack Russell Jess and Shih Tzu KT.
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Penny is Financial Administrator for the Practice. Apart from her accounting responsibilities she is responsible for the administration of insurance claims and Vale Vet Plan, and assists with advertising, marketing and special functions and events run by the Practice. Away from the Practice her time is spent on her horses, her beagles and her husband Clive - not quite in that order!
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Bev is our insurance claims co-ordinator, assisting Penny and the vets with the completion of claim forms and ensuring that they get sent to the insurance company as speedily as possible. Bev has recently moved to a house with a large plot of land so she is now busy gardening, keeping chickens and generally living the good life!
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