MEDIVET - DOES ANYONE USE THIS CHAIN OF VETS? (Following previous Panorama Post)

Kenzo said:
I'd actually never heard of them, until I had a read through on that link on the other post. :o:confused:
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Me neither. Although I say that I think I've heard the name but thought they were the people who made the drugs. (Am I thick or what)??:p
 
Godknows said:
Me neither. Although I say that I think I've heard the name but thought they were the people who made the drugs. (Am I thick or what)??:p
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If your thick then I am too as I assumed the same, never heard of them. Heard of City vets, they're the only big chain I know of.
 
bexwarren24 said:
If your thick then I am too as I assumed the same, never heard of them. Heard of City vets, they're the only big chain I know of.
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Me too, i thought they made the drugs as well!!

I am interested to see what the programme shows. I use a very small practice for my animals, even for my horses routine treatment. They are brilliant and i trust them 100%. Not sure i'd trust a big chain so much...
 
I'm scared to watch, now, as my local vet is a Medivet. Saying that, after a while of 'locums', which I was stuck with as my 'hospice case' cat was already under them for liver treatment, a really nice lady vet has started there and is consistently there! We've developed a rapport and she's the only reason I still go. If she leaves, I do!
 
I won't be watching - just the trailer was enough for me. Just cannot abide watching animal abuse. Please post after it what investigation is/has been going on, ta muchly. sm x
 
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I can't believe that.
No wonder my sister is so stressed at the mo.
She loves her job and loves animals. She is amazing with them and would never hurt or misstreat them. I hope these acusations have nothing to do with her branch. (She works somewhere in London I think). I get loads of free advice from her and the vets at her practice when somethings wrong with charlie brown even though i'm not a client.
 
I used to use the St Albans and Watford branches for my dog, and (latterly) cats. Never had any issues and they were always kind to the animals.

Would rather use them than another vet we used for the cats whose misprescription overdose of a drug killed one of our cats :-(((and who then tried to cover up by altering the case notes :-O

Will watch with interest tho...
 
the brain branch in focus is the watford branch, with the hendon branch featuring also.

we mainly use the redborn branch and alba there is very very good but they have been transferred to the watford branch a couple of times.

its a very big talking point here currently.

although in response all industries have good and bad, but they are not cheap at all so that issue does not surprise me.

and as stated there is a lack of legal guidelines for trainees etc ..

so perhaps this will promt the rvc to rectify this.
 
Did they mention anyother branches? my dog is in the Battersea branch as we speak, but I have to say the vet there has been nothing but exemplory.
 
The Battersea branch is one my sister is sometimes at i think. There would be no abuse while she is in charge i can assure you. utherwise she wouldn't work there.
 
The Southend branch is my old vets out of hours service (one of the main reasons that they are my old vets!) They are also the drop off point for stray dogs so I've also been in and out of there a few time.

Only used them once with a cat with an infection on a Saturday night - collected her Monday morning and the bill was £666, just for antibs, a drip and nursing. My God, they know how to charge:eek:

As for the care issues, I'm not really surprised as most of the staff seem to quite inexperienced and very, very young so I would imagine that they are unqualified.....
 
By the looks of the trailers, it's not the vets who are doing anything wrong, it's possibly the vet nurses/ assistants who are often 'backstage'
 
Am going to watch, but i only use a small scale vets that ive always used.

Very understanding even when i was about 10 trying to save my gerbil that i hindsight should have been pts (they did say this, but they said they would try first!) :(
 
TheMule said:
By the looks of the trailers, it's not the vets who are doing anything wrong, it's possibly the vet nurses/ assistants who are often 'backstage'
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no offence but the vets should be in charge of the unqualified and trainee's so its as much them as it is the back room staff.

also when i pay a vet bill for veterinary treatment i expect the appropriately qualified person to be doing it, if i wanted trainees firstly i would go the vet college and pay accordingly and secondly i wouldnt be using unsupervised trainees at all.

as for other branches, i am unsure what if any are mentioned tbh, i only know the watford and hendon branches are definitely in it.
 
I haven't seen the programme or reports yet but please don't tar all practices with the same brush, equally not all trainee's are as bad! I've been doing my vet nurse training but I was always always accompanied by a qualified member of staff at all times and never allowed to do anything out of my depth. Everyone has to learn and training in practice is a fantastic way for people to do this, it gives you the hands on experience you will never learn at uni and is in my oppinion invaluable, however I do agree that you should be monitored and accompanied at all times by a qualifed member of staff when dealing with animals in your care. The RVC have accredited training practices and for this they do regular checks, practices have to be of a certain standard and at least one member of staff alongside vets are trained to teach trainees and all other staff in practice are fully qualified.
 
I am a newly qualified vet nurse after studying for 4 years the RVC in London. I know a number of veterinary nursing students on my course who did their work exp at the practice in question. I know that none of them would ever hurt an animal.

Originally Posted by TheMule
By the looks of the trailers, it's not the vets who are doing anything wrong, it's possibly the vet nurses/ assistants who are often 'backstage'
This comment really annoys me. Not every vet is perfect.

I will be watching tonight, but please dont tarr us all with the same brush! there are bad ppl in every job.
Charlotte
 
Divasmum said:
We have several branches within easy drive of here (Watford). I use Park Vets for the horse and dog. Great staff there.
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Snowysadude said:
Divasmum was about to say the same thing! I live in watford as well and use park vets :) Although a friend of mine uses medivet for her dog in ricky
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lachlanandmarcus said:
I used to use the St Albans and Watford branches for my dog, and (latterly) cats. Never had any issues and they were always kind to the animals.
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OMG, quick, mini-meet! I'm round the corner from the Watford one on St Albans Road!

I use Park for the horse (our school caretaker's GF is a small animal nurse at Park and I like Chris-he hugs my pony when he comes up!) and a local small vet for the dogs.

I don't know if I can watch it: Medivet admit the vet nurse badly mishandled the dog in the clip and was 'admonished' (should have been sacked, come on!) but I can't find any mention of the vets themselves.
 
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thing is though - if (as said on medivet webpage).......that th eonly way to train is by practicle.......


fair enough - but supervision?!?!?!



i hope they get slammed in this programme- and thats just for seeing the trailer on that poor dog :(
 
Never heard of them before either and never used them - but from that program I am kinda glad!!!
but agreed with some comments...in any job its very easy to highlight the bad apples and bad jobs done along with the mistakes, as its so expected today that things are done well and therefore aren't shown..
But I don't condone the way animals were treated, the way fraud was committed, and the way owners were cheated out of more money...that's bad practise. What a highlighting program.
We use a small practise near us, with only 3 vets and have done ever since we moved here about 9 years ago - we have never had any problems nor had our dogs come back with any issues.
K x
 
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