Introduction
Based at the Royal Veterinary College’s main campus, close to Junction 23 of the M25 in Hertfordshire, the Farm Animal Practice (FAP) has been established for over 25 years.
Since August 2008, the Royal Veterinary College has entered into a new partnership with Northpoint Veterinary Services (a branch of Westpoint Veterinary Group Ltd) to form the Joint Venture Practice (JVP). We aim to provide the highest level of veterinary service to farms across Essex, Hertfordshire, south Suffolk, Buckinghamshire and London and to achieve this through a team of dedicated farm animal vets, backed up by the very best facilities.
We have a dedicated Farm vet permanently based at the Royal Veterinary College’s main campus, as well as a team of specialist Clinical Training Scholars (interns) and the support of the new Camelid and Farm Animal Hospital clinicians and their facilities. The RVC is home to a number of specialists in every field of production animal health and disease prevention. The Joint Venture Practice is unique in that it has readily available access to these experts, as well as the expertise of the practitioners and consultants of Westpoint Vet Group Ltd.
The JVP has two office sites in the practice area, one in Leaden Roding, Essex and the other at the RVC, North Mymms. Four senior farm vets operate from these two sites alongside an intern team.
As well as being a dedicated farm animal only practice, the JVP also has a responsibility to educate the RVC’s final year veterinary students. For this reason, the JVP vets will regularly be accompanied by 5th year vet students.
We aim to promote a whole farm approach to animal health, production and welfare, emphasising preventative medicine as the key to profitable, healthy livestock.
Despite our interest in whole herd preventative medicine we never lose sight of the importance of the individual animal. We are just as happy treating a single pet sheep or goat as we are dealing with a herd of dairy cows.