Michael Hollywood - BvetMed CertVOphthal MRCVS

Mike qualified from London University in 1994. He completed a small animal internship at the Royal Veterinary College, London before joining the practice in November 1995. He gained his RCVS certificate in Veterinary Ophthalmology in May 2000 and joined the partnership of the practice in July 2001.

Cyril Hayes - MVB MRCVS

Cyril qualified from Dublin in 1998. After spending 18 months in mixed practice he decided to concentrate solely on small animals. He joined the practice in 2001 and is predominantly based at our Tetbury branch, although he also has surgeries at Malmesbury. His main interest is internal medicine. Cyril joined the partnership of the practice in July 2006.

Julie Hollywood - BVetMed MRCVS

Julie qualified from London in 1995. After working in small animal practice in Chippenham for 7 years she joined the George in 2003. Her interests include feline and rabbit medicine and soft tissue surgery.

Amy Watson - BA, VetMB MRCVS

Amy qualified from Cambridge in 2005 and joined the Small Animal department at the George in October of that year. Whilst she enjoys all aspects of medicine and surgery she does have a keen interest in feline medicine and paediatrics

Emily Tomlin - BVM&S MRCVS

Emily qualified from Edinburgh in 2004. After working in mixed practice in Lincolnshire for nearly 3 years she decided to further her small animal experience in New Zealand. She then joined the practice in January 2008. Emily enjoys the variety of general practice, but has a particular interest in surgery.

Iain Hunt - BVMS MRCVS

Iain graduated from Glasgow Vet School in 2004. He moved south to take up a post as a mixed practitioner in Cornwall where he stayed for 2.5 years. Iain joined the GVG in March 2007 where he has taken on a purely small animal role. He enjoys all aspects of small animal practice and has a particular interest in surgery. He enjoys all sports, and is a regular on the football pitch and golf course. He was also part of the winning Tetbury Woolsack Race team in May 2008.

Kathryn Fleming - BVSc MRCVS

Kathryn qualified from Bristol in 2007 and joined the practice in November of that year. Before starting at The George she spent a month in Nepal and enjoyed volunteering for a charity helping street dogs in Kathmandu. Her interests include surgery and imaging, particularly ultrasonography.

Lauren Harger - BVSc MRCVS

Lauren graduated from Bristol in July 2008 and joined the small animal team in November 2008. After graduating, Lauren took some time out to go travelling in South America, completing the Inca Trail in Peru and visiting the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. She has a keen interest in diagnostic imaging.

Mike Sandiford - BVSc DBR MRCVS

Mike Sandiford graduated from Bristol University in 1996 where he was one of the vet students followed in the BBC documentary ‘Vets School’. After nine months in Botswana working at a Wildlife Sanctuary, Ostrich Farm and Safari Company he joined the cattle team at the George Vet Group in October 1997. Having spent time developing his clinical skills he again appeared in ‘Vets in Practice’ which followed his progress as a large animal vet. Mike developed a particular interest in Mastitis Investigations and developed the GVG SCC Report to monitor the incidence of ‘New Infections’ using NMR data in order to improve treatment success rates through early intervention. Following an increased involvement in herd fertility he studied for his Diploma in Bovine Reproduction (DBR) at Liverpool University for 2 years graduating with distinction in December ’08. Mike is currently involved in Herd Health Management on several large, high yielding dairies and is available for second opinion referrals. He joined the Partnership in July ’08 and lives in Malmesbury with his wife and three children.

Richard Pearson - BVSc MRCVS

Richard Pearson qualified from Liverpool in 1993 with an interest in cattle and pig medicine. Since then he has developed interests in infectious disease in pigs, bovine reproduction, Johne’s disease, mastitis control, biosecurity and parasite control in both species. He is a director of Vetscore providing pig health reports to pig farmers throughout the South of England via the British Pig Health Scheme and also a reporting vet for NADIS (National Animal Disease Information Service.) Richard joined the partnership of the practice in July 2003.

Fran Baird - BVMS MRCVS

Fran Baird qualified from Glasgow in 1990. He joined the practice in the autumn of that year, becoming a partner in 1997. He has primary responsibility for the pig practice and services a wide variety of clients throughout the South and South-West England, as well as overseas, advising on all aspects of pig production with particular regard to health, welfare and disease. As a dairy farmer’s son, bought up with pedigree Ayrshires, he has a long association with our farm team and retains management input within the cattle team.

Phil Marsh - BVetMed MRCVS

Tom Oxtoby - BVSc MRCVS

Tom Oxtoby graduated from the University of Bristol in 2000 and came to the George Vet Group after 3 years in mixed practice in Mid Wales. He works exclusively with farm animals, with dairy cattle comprising approximately 90% of his workload. He has special interests in nutrition and fertility and set up the bull fertility testing service that the George Vet Group provides to its own clients and on a referral basis. He has held farmer training days on foot care, semen handling and storage, downer cows and nutrition. He also runs the practice’s organic farm discussion group. Tom is involved with several large sheep flocks, providing routine health visits, flock health plans and ram fertility testing. He tries to keep fit by playing football and running half marathons and has the proud distinction of being part the George Vet Group’s 2006 World Woolsack Championship winning team!

Cathy Morris - BVSc BSc MRCVS

Cathy Morris qualified from Bristol in, and joined the George in 2004, having spent time in large and companion animal practice in the area. She is currently working towards a further qualification in homeopathy, which she uses in conjunction with conventional therapies where appropriate.

Katie Goodfellow - BVSc MRCVS

Katie Goodfellow grew up in Cheshire dairy country, and qualified from Bristol Vet School. Joining the George in 2004 allowed Katie to dedicate 100% of her time to farm animal work. Katie runs the George’s AI training courses and is responsible for developing its embryo service, as well as keeping busy with day to day farm calls. Following further training in 2007, she now regularly uses the practice’s mobile ultrasound scanners for the diagnosis of heart, chest and abdominal disease in addition to the familiar fertility applications

Ian Illingworth - BVM&S MRCVS

IIan Illingworth qualified from Edinburgh in 2003 and having spent two years in mixed practice in Herriot country moved to the George in 2005. Ian enjoys the challenge of dairy production medicine linking nutrition, yield, locomotion and fertility. Ian’s range of beef and sheep farms include pedigree and commercial units as well as smaller enterprises with the odd very mixed small holding providing light relief. Outside of work he enjoys playing rugby, squash, walking the dog and wood carving.

Tim Hirst - BVM&S MRCVS

Tim Hirst qualified from Edinburgh in 2003, and started work in a mixed practice in Northern Ireland with a baptism of fire seeing all manor of sick cows, calving cows and performing over a hundred cattle and sheep caesareans. After a year of hard work and long hours he joined the Rowe Vet Group, and became part of the George when the two practices merged in January 2007. Tim enjoys all aspects of dairy and beef work and in particular loves large animal surgery. Tim is enrolled on the postgraduate Certificate in Cattle Health and Production, and is keen to help farmers improve their overall herd health and to run their farms as efficiently as possible. Outside of work Tim has competed nationally and internationally in dinghy racing and last year finished second at the nationals in Cornwall in the RS 800 fleet. He enjoys most country sports, in particular game shooting and hunts his own horse with the Berkeley and Beaufort packs.

Gethin Roberts - BVSc MRCVS

Gethin Roberts was brought up on the family beef and sheep farm in South Wales. After qualifying from the University of Bristol, he joined the George Farm Team in August 2007. Gethin has a keen interest in herd health issues, particularly mastitis control and prevention. Other areas of interest include infectious disease screening and eradication, following the start of our free milk and blood screening programmes in 2008. 

Outside of work he regularly exhibits his Welsh Mountain rams at local shows and sales and would like to start showing the cattle in the near future.

Ed Bailey - BVSc MRCVS

Ed Bailey grew up in Bristol and qualified from Bristol University in 2007. A locum position in mixed practice in Devon was sufficient to convince him that farm work was what he wanted to concentrate on, and has been at The George ever since. Ed runs the practice foot trimming courses, and is also responsible for overseeing the sheep work, coordinating proactive flock health planning. He is qualified to implement DairyCo mastitis control investigations, and mastitis prevention is a particular interest.He has managed to make it out of the South West from time to time and has worked on a dairy farm in New Zealand as part of numerous world travels. Away from work he spends his time cycling, fell running and climbing.

Ian Cardiff - BVMS MRCVS

Ian Cardiff graduated in 2003 from Glasgow. Initially he worked in mixed practice on the Devon/Cornwall border, before joining a companion animal practice in Bristol. He joined the George Farm Team in early 2009 and enjoys all aspects of large animal work.

Heather Niman - BVSc MRCVS

Originally from East Cheshire, Heather graduated from Bristol University in 2009, having gained experience of farm practice in Cheshire and Yorkshire, and with a keen interest in farm data; spending time in final year helping to develop the TotalVet software. She joined the George in December of that year and brought the northern weather with her, resulting in us all being snowed in for weeks! Coming from a dairy background, Heather is particularly enthusiastic about lameness in dairy cows and in neonatal medicine so when she’s not TB testing, can often be found locomotion scoring or cuddling a sick calf or lamb. Since joining the George she has a fast growing interest in beef and sheep work, as well as the practice’s alpaca work. Outside of work she has a keen interest in veterinary politics and enjoys most country pursuits, currently concentrating on training her chocolate Labrador puppy Clova for the field.

Val Hopes

Val Hopes joined the practice in September 1987 working within the small animal team.   Having established her role within this department  she moved to the fast expanding farm team as the Farm Administrator.  This role she enjoys as her family have historically worked within the farming industry.
Her interests include walking, riding and an active support for  whale and dolphin conservation.

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Lindsay Wakefield 

Lindsay joined the practice in July 2008 and is in charge of the practice dispensary.  Along with Fliss she helps dispense the pig drug orders.  She is responsible for ordering all drugs for the practice.   She is interested in all animals and has a small holding.

Linda Belton - BVSc MRCVS

I am delighted that we are now able to further extend our work with our new base in Pewsey. Belmont House Equine Clinic offers a dedicated local equine practice to care for your horses.

I write an equine veterinary column for Horse Magazine and also write for our local equestrian newspaper Saddle Up. We also produce a quarterly magazine aimed at younger riders offering advice and information about horse health. This is distributed for free through local equestrian outlets and via our surgeries.

I have been a keen rider for a number of years, competing in various disciplines and having a lot of fun! As well as my own two horses, I now have children with ponies. Looking after and competing ponies is possibly more work than the horses!

I enjoy all aspects of my veterinary work, with a special interest in equine lameness and poor performance, two areas which often go hand in hand. I also do a lot of equine dentistry as correct dental care is vital to a horse’s digestion and performance.

As a practice, we also enjoy hosting lectures and demonstrations for horse owners on veterinary health care and have extended this service to various summer riding and pony club camps.

Ali Mead - BVetMed MRCVS

Oscar Wain - BVSc MRCVS

Andy Richardson - BVSc MRCVS

Caroline Foalks - BvetMed MRCVS

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Peter Bown – BVMS (Hons) FRCVS

Pete graduated with Honours from the University of Glasgow in 1968. He was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College by examination in 1974 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 2000.
Pete has spent his entire professional career in private practice, helping to grow the George Veterinary Group from 4 vets in 1970 to 27 vets in 2008 when he retired from the Partnership. He still works with a wide pig client base within the South and South West of England. He has been the consultant vet for PIC UK since July 2001, and is a member of the editorial board of Pig Marketing.  He was President of the Pig Veterinary Society in 2009/2010.
Pete has work with pigs for over 40 years and his main interests are pig health and production.

Richard Pearson BVSc  MRCVS

Richard qualified from Liverpool in 1993 with an interest in cattle and pig medicine.  Since then he has developed interests in infectious diseases in pigs, bovine reproduction, Johne’s disease, mastitis control, biosecurity and parasite control in both species. He is a director of Vetscore providing pig health reports to pig farmers throughout the south of England via the British Pig Health Scheme and also a reporting vet for NADIS (National Animal Disease Information Service).  Richard joined the partnership in 2003.

Fran Baird BVMS MRCVS

Fran is a dairy farmer’s son from Renfrewshire in Scotland.  He qualified from Glasgow Vet School in June 1990 and started work at The George Veterinary group in August of that year.  Initially he worked as a mixed practitioner and then increasingly in the large animal department as the business became more specialised.  He became a partner in July 1997 and has responsibility for the pig and farm animal departments.

His main interests lie in pig production systems and he provides an advisory service to clients with all types of pig breeding, rearing and finishing businesses predominately throughout the South and South West of England (from Cornwall to Staffordshire and Sussex to Leicestershire).  He also advises pig businesses in Northern and Southern Ireland.

Annie Davis BVMS MRCVS

Annie qualified from Glasgow University in 1997, and joined the George as a pig practitioner in August of that year. Her main areas of interest are farm health and welfare, and the improvement of pig fertility on farm. She has become heavily involved in the continuing development and education of farm workers and managers, performing a key role in the BPEX on farm training schemes in the South West. She is currently the Welfare Representative on the Pig Veterinary Society Executive, and is studying for a post graduate Certificate in Pig Medicine. Annie became an Associate at the George in 2009.

Alex Thomsett BVetMed(Hons), GPCert(FAP), MRCVS

Alex Thomsett qualified with Honours from the Royal Veterinary College in 2003, joining the practice in the August of that year.
Initially concentrating in general farm animal practice she now devotes most of her time to pig health and production.  Daily commitments cover all stages and types of production including routine and emergency work.  Other professional interests include delivering education programmes for stock people and biosecurity.
Alex completed General Practitioner Certificate in Farm Animal Practice in 2006 and is now studying for the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Certificate in Pig Medicine.
Outside of work Alex enjoys a range of sporting activities and is currently developing and showing her “Driftwood” herd of cattle.

Angie Reeves

Angie has worked for The George Veterinary Group for 26 years in all aspects of the Practice.  She has been the Pig Practice co-ordinator for 18 years.

Angie works from the main practice building in Malmesbury.  She is responsible for the general day to day management of the pig office including organising farm visits, drug orders and processing feed prescriptions.

Fliss Parsons

Fliss has worked for the practice for 6 years.  She is responsible for dispensing medication orders and also assists Angie with the administration of the Pig Practice.

Lindsay Wakefield 

Lindsay joined the practice in July 2008 and is in charge of the practice dispensary.  Along with Fliss she helps dispense the pig drug orders.  She is responsible for ordering all drugs for the practice.   She is interested in all animals and has a small holding.

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