Simon Constable's Veterinary Practice

Hi everyone,

Back from a week’s holiday- nicely refreshed and ready to get back to work!!

Busy week ahead with an RSPCA court case and a week-end on duty to look forward to.  Also at the RSPCA case (as another of the expert witnesses for the prosecution) is Sarah Walker, who is doing very well down in the Midlands.

Feel free to reply to our blog and suggest any ideas you may have to make the web-site better!!

Best wishes,

Simon

Hello everyone,

The new blog is up and running so we can provide an up-to-date commentary about the practice and all the latest news from the equine veterinary world.  Some of it may be a bit obscure, but often it means something to someone!!

The British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA) Congress was held in Birmingham last week; everyone from the practice attended.  It’s one of the best places to keep up with modern treatments, thoughts and new equipment.  As usual we have added to our equipment- a new scanner probe to allow us to scan hearts and more equipment for our digital X-ray machine (if you haven’t seen it yet, you’ve missed out- it’s a fantastic piece of kit!).  BEVA is also a great place to catch up with old friends and College-mates.  Sarah, Tom and I went for a curry at Shimla Pinks (where celebs hang out, apparently!) where I met up with (a different) Tom from university as well as a posse from Redwings Horse Sanctuary.  A good time was had by all!!

Welcome everyone to our new website, and in particular to the blog section! As a self-confessed geek I have given the website a once over, and after conversations with the other vets, we all thought a blog might be a nice idea to let our clients get to know us a little better. Many of you will (hopefully!) only see us occasionally, and a little post by each of us now and again will hopefully keep you in touch. We’ll also bring you any news on new diseases and treatments as we come across them, and give some refreshers on older diseases that may be seen in a new light.
So, having said we’d like you to know us better, I should probably introduce myself to those of you I haven’t met. I’m Alex, I’m 25 and I grew up just the right side of the Pennines in Halifax. I qualified from Liverpool University in 2009, and started work for Simon a few weeks later. At work, my main interests are medical cases, especially ophthalmology, and anaesthesia. Since starting work I have also developed something of a penchant for dentistry, and will hopefully be going on a course later this year to learn some more advanced techniques.
Outside of work sport plays a fairly dominant role in my life, with cricket and rugby the foremost. Sadly injury curtailed a promising playing career in rugby, which leaves me with only cricket – this may explain my somewhat rotund waistline at present!
I hope you like the new website, and please do keep up with posts on this blog – I will be pestering the other vets to write on it as much as possible! Feel free to use the comments to ask me anything you like, although I reserve in advance the right to avoid answering!