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A day in the life of an Orthopaedic Nurse

Orthopaedic Nurse Practitioner Sarah King has shared her account of a typical day in her nursing role at our specialist veterinary practice in Eashing, Surrey. We’ll be sharing more blogs by the nursing team as part of World Veterinary Awareness Month 2018, to highlight the various nursing roles in the profession and the crucial part they […]

Spotlight on: Limb sparing & limb salvage surgery

Through the dedication of our orthopaedic surgeons and extended patient care team, we are able to treat a variety of clinical conditions that require more bespoke intervention. We asked the clinical team some frequently asked questions about limb sparing and limb salvage surgery at Fitzpatrick Referrals, led by Professor Noel Fitzpatrick who has innovated these […]

Doing the ordinary extraordinarily well

Through the dedication and skill of our orthopaedic specialists and extended patient care team, we are able to treat a wide range of small animal clinical conditions every day. This includes routine procedures for developmental elbow disease, cruciate ligament disease, patellar luxation and fracture management, ranging through to the more unique and complex surgeries such as limb salvage procedures and limb deformity […]

Innovative orthopaedic procedures

Alongside our daily caseload of routine orthopaedic procedures, we perform a small number of advanced and custom procedures for dogs and cats where traditional surgical methods may not be appropriate or when the problem is so complex or unusual that only a custom implant can help. By working closely with a team of biomedical engineers, […]

Client Column: Our Bobby by Marc Etheridge

Bobby, our three-year-old Miniature Poodle, had seemed to be struggling to keep up with his playmate, Amy the Toy Poodle, and had started to develop an intermittent limp. Our family vet suspected cruciate ligament problems and took some x-rays. These showed that the poor chap had a problem that meant that his hip would pop in […]

Meet our Interns – Leonor

Fitzpatrick Referrals has a team of 18 interns consisting of veterinary surgeons who devote one year of their working life to improve their understanding of specialist treatment and care in orthopaedics, neurology, oncology, soft tissue surgery and diagnostic imaging. Our interns play a key role within our care team and undertake supervised rotation through their […]

Life as a referral veterinary nurse by Sarah King

As part of Veterinary Nurse Awareness Month this May, we’ve been chatting with a few of our nurses to share how they got into referral nursing, and give an insight into the profession and life at Fitzpatrick Referrals. First up is Senior Veterinary Nurse, Sarah King, who works at Fitzpatrick Referrals Orthopaedic and Neurology centre […]