The London Cat Clinic is the overall winner of the Design Awards 2017.This year's entries showed a high level of flair and style while keeping high veterinary standards.
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THE results of the Design
Awards 2017,
organised by the British Veterinary Hospitals Association in association with Veterinary Practice, were announced at a
luncheon in London on 1st December.
The president of the
BVHA, Martin Smith, handed out the awards at a ceremony attended by, among
others, the presidents of the Royal College, Professor Stephen May, and the
BSAVA, John Chitty. Other guests included the founder and first president of
the BVHA, John Tandy, Tom Flynn representing SPVS and the guest speaker
Professor John Cooper who gave a lively address on issues facing the veterinary
profession in various parts of Africa as well as in the UK.
And the winners are...
OVERALL WINNER
THE LONDON CAT CLINIC
82-86 Spa Road, Bermondsey, London SE16 3QT
CATEGORY 1 – NEW BUILD
Winner
CAMELID VETERINARY SERVICES LTD
The Old Barracks, Lady Grove, Goring Heath,
Reading RG8 7RU
Runner-up
FITZPATRICK REFERRALS ONCOLOGY AND SOFT TISSUE
70 Priestley Road, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7AJ.
CATEGORY 2 – CONVERSION
Winner
THE LONDON CAT CLINIC
Runner-up
LUMBRY PARK VETERINARY SPECIALISTS
Lumbry Park, Selborne Road, Alton, Hampshire
GU34 3HL
CATEGORY 3 –REFURBISHMENT
Winner
HUNGERFORD VETS LTD
The Veterinary Hospital, 4 Bath Road,
Hungerford RG17 0HE
Runner-up
THE GEORGE VETERINARY GROUP HOSPITAL
18-20 High Street, Malmesbury SN16 9AU
PRESIDENT’S AWARDS
THE PETS’N’VETS ROUNDHOUSE VETERINARY HOSPITAL
for outstanding front-of-house design, appearance and facilities
LUMBRY PARK VETERINARY SPECIALISTS
for design of an
outstanding working environment
The overall winning
practice was the winner of the “conversion” category, the London Cat Clinic,
with Dr Jeremy Campbell and three of his team there to collect the prizes which
included an engraved trophy as well as vouchers from the competition partners
and sponsors, Securos Surgical and Gratnells.
The “new build”
category was won by Camelid Veterinary Services Ltd of Goring Heath in
Berkshire, with its founder Claire Whitehead collecting the award; while the
“refurbishment” category went to Hungerford Vets Ltd with practice principal
Jonathan Green and the architect Jon Hole stepping forward.
The BVHA president made
two special awards for outstanding design features: the first to the
Pets’n’Vets Roundhouse Veterinary Hospital in Glasgow for outstanding
front-of-house design, appearance and facilities; the second to Lumbry Park
Veterinary Specialists in Alton, Hants., for design of an outstanding working environment.
Practice principal Oliver Jackson collected the former; and Ray Girotti,
hospital director, and two senior staff members accepted the latter.
• The BVHA and Veterinary Practice thank the many practices which entered the
award for the time and trouble taken and their overall excellent high standards.
The next competition will take place in 2019.
Special thanks to our Gold Partner, Securos Surgical for their generous prizes.
Also thanks to our Bronze Sponsor, Gratnells, for donating prizes to each category winner.