The Queen's Veterinary School Hospital

The Queen’s Veterinary School Hospital (QVSH) is part of the University of Cambridge and offers the highest levels of excellence in animal care. It has a purpose-built veterinary referral hospital which houses specialist equipment and facilities. As a not-for-profit organisation, we reinvest any surplus income in new equipment and services to benefit our patients.

Our greatest strength is the quality of our clinical team – most of our clinicians are European and RCVS diploma holders so our patients will receive the highest level of clinical care at all times.

QVSH is also the teaching hospital for students and Senior Clinical Training Scholars at the Cambridge Veterinary School. Senior Clinical Training Scholars are specialists in training (similar to registrars in human medicine) who assist our specialist clinicians with the care of our patients. Our students also assist with the care of our patients but only under the supervision of our clinicians.

Based at the Department of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Cambridge’s West Site, just off Junction 13 of the M11, the Farm Animal Unit (FAU)has been providing veterinary services to University animals and other local clients for a number of years. The focus of the unit has always been on teaching and utilising a small number of local clients to provide the best demonstration of quality farm clinical services to our clients and our students. In July 2013 a decision was made to open up the Farm Animal Unit to an extended client base of local farmers and livestock owners under the new name of Cambridge Farm Animal Veterinary Services (CFAVS).

We aim to provide the highest level of veterinary services to farms throughout Cambridgeshire and neighbouring counties and to achieve this through a growing team of dedicated farm animal vets. The ambulatory service is supported by the full range of specialist expertise at the Queen’s Veterinary School Hospital and Cambridge Equine Hospital allowing us to offer a greater range of diagnostic, surgical and medical care.

To aid us in our work we have a farm animal clinic based at the West Cambridge site which is available to our ambulatory clients and referral clients if required.

We have a dedicated team of three Farm Animal Clinicians based within CFAVS, as well as two Junior Clinical Training Scholars (interns), all of whom are focussed on providing the best farm animal services to all clients, big or small. We also have a dedicated Farm Animal Technician who, not only is a Diploma holder in cattle footcare, but has also worked within the farming industry in a range of roles and so is experienced with handling, movement and restraint of all species.

We aim to promote a whole farm approach to animal health, production and welfare, emphasising preventative medicine as the key to profitable, healthy livestock however we are also aware of the importance of the individual animal and are more than happy to treat a single pet goat or pig as we are dealing with a herd of dairy cows.

Small Animal Hospital

• • Cardiology
  • Internal Medicine
  • Neurology and Neurosurgery
  • Oncology
  • Dermatology
  • Soft tissue surgery
  • Orthopaedics
  • Ophthalmology
  • Obesity Clinic
  • Inpatient area and interns

Farm Animal Veterinary Services

Services offered

• Routine Herd Fertility visits using ultrasound scanners
• Emergency care provision
• Routine flock health visits including flock preparation for lambing
• Bull and Ram fertility testing
• Mastitis, Milk Quality and Cell Count advice and investigations
• Lameness Prevention and Investigation
• Provision of Herd Health Plans for farms to comply with the requirements of Farm Assurance Schemes
• Advice on Preventative Medicine and Disease Control Programs and Participation in recognised, accredited Health Schemes
• Metabolic Profiling to assist in the nutritional management of the herd or flock and analysis of diets using RumNut software
• Young stock and heifer rearing programs
• Use of Interherd software to provide comprehensive analysis of Health and Fertility data and integration of information with NMR milk recording data.
• Advice on strategic use of vaccines and wormers
• Advice on management of small scale farming operations and pet farm animal care and management
• Continuing education programs for owners and farmers

Equine

First Opinion Practice

Equine Referral Hospital

Diagnostic laboratories

• Clinical Pathology
• Anatomic Pathology
• Canine Genetic Testing

Clinical support services

• Diagnostic imaging
• Anaesthesia and critical care