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    James Farrell

    Managing Clinical Director

    BVetMed CertSAS MRCVS RCVS Advanced Practitioner

    James qualified from the Royal Veterinary College, London in 1998, gained the RCVS Certificate in Small Animal Surgery in 2007 and was listed as an RCVS Advanced Practitioner in 2015, demonstrating his abilities to date, and an ongoing commitment to further development of his skills. James gained extensive experience in trauma cases involving skin reconstruction and fracture repair during his five years at the PDSA charity before moving back into private practice. His special interests include canine cruciate ligament disease, ear surgery, and minimally invasive surgery. The latter gives clients worried about major surgery a ‘keyhole’ option without the need for full exploratory surgery.

     

    In addition, from early on in his career, James has had a passion for teaching. He was a clinical teaching associate for the Nottingham Vet School between 2010 and 2012, supervising final year vet students’ surgery and continues to provide CPD for vets and nurses in practice. At home, James and his wife, Ruth, enjoy a busy time with their family of three children, three dogs, three cats, two tortoises.

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    Jenny Walsh

    Managing Clinical Director

    BVSc MRCVS

    After graduating from the University of Liverpool in 2006 Jenny worked in practices in Derbyshire, Cheshire and Lancashire before joining WVG in April 2014. She enjoys the variety that working in general practice brings – never quite knowing what will be coming through the door next. In her spare time Jenny is an outdoor enthusiast and can often be found up a hill in the Peaks or the Lake District.

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    Tom Foster

    Managing Clinical Director

    BVM BVS BVMedSci(Hons) CertAVP MRCVS

    Tom graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2012, and begun the first two years of his veterinary career as a small animal practitioner in a busy Nottinghamshire clinic. After a period of travelling and voluntary work at animal charities in Thailand and Indonesia, Tom began work as a locum vet in clinics across Australia and the UK. From 2016, Tom was based in a small animal practice in Lancashire, becoming their Clinical Director. More recently, Tom returned to the UK from a year as Senior Veterinary Surgeon for a practice in Bermuda, and has joined Jenny and James as Managing Clinical Director at Woodcroft.

     

    In 2020, Tom completed an RCVS Certificate in Advanced Veterinary Practice, and hopes to further study to become an Advance Practitioner in Small Animal Surgery.

     

    Tom lives with his wife, Charlotte in Manchester, who both look forward to moving closer to the countryside and having a dog (and maybe some chickens!). Outside of work, Tom enjoys rugby, triathlon and travelling.

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    Aisling Ryan

    Veterinary Surgeon

    MVB MRCVS

    Aisling graduated from the School of Veterinary Medicine in University College Dublin, Ireland and has since been working as a small animal vet in the England. She joined the Woodcroft team in 2017 and is enjoying living in Manchester. Aisling enjoys working with all companion animals but has a special interest in feline medicine and is currently undertaking a certificate in small animal surgery. Aisling wants to further her surgical abilities and perform more complex surgeries.

     

    Aisling has two lovely cats, Apollo and Benji who have stayed at home in Dublin with their family dog Boodles the Bichon Frise. Aisling enjoys travelling and loves visiting new places.

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    Amber Morley

    Veterinary Surgeon

    BVM&S MRCVS Cert AVP (ECC)

    Amber graduated from Edinburgh University in 2005. Since then she has worked largely in small animal practice, most recently at the PDSA in Nottingham. She gained her certificate in Emergency and Critical Care in 2018 and is an RCVS Advanced Practitioner. At Woodcroft Amber is responsible for care of the hospitalised patients as well as working in the out of hours service.

     

    Amber has 2 cats and in her spare time enjoys riding her horse, swimming and pilates.

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    Charlie Mellor

    Veterinary Surgeon

    BVetMed (Hons) MRCVS

    Charlie graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in London. He grew up locally and joined the Woodcroft veterinary team in 2016. He enjoys all areas of small animal clinical practice, but has special interests in orthopaedics and internal medicine. In his spare time, he enjoys tiring out his bouncy Wheaten Terrier named Max, experimenting with new ingredients in the kitchen and wakeboarding

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    Gabe Wertheimer

    Veterinary Surgeon

    BVSc MRCVS

    Gabe graduated from the university of Bristol in 2006. He spent his first few years in mixed practice in Herefordshire and Bedford before moving to Watford to concentrate on small animal work.

     

    Gabe joined Woodcroft Vets in July 2015. He enjoys all aspects of general practice and has a keen interest in surgery.

     

    Gabe lives with his wife and two young children, as well as rescue cat Ivan (aka Ivan the terrible). In his spare time he enjoys football, swimming and cooking.

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    Gareth Whitby

    Veterinary Surgeon

    BvetMed (Hons) MRCS

    Gareth graduated from the Royal Veterinary College, London in 2007 and after 2 years working in small animal practice, in the south of England, joined the practice for the first time in 2009. After 5 years with the group, Gareth moved to New Zealand to try life and work down under but feeling the pull of home he returned to rejoin Woodcroft in June 2015. He enjoys all aspects of small animal practice but particularly surgery and plans to study towards a certificate in this area. When not at work he’s usually engaged in some sport or other, enjoying kitesurfing, cycling and fishing.

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    Georgia Baldwin

    Veterinary Surgeon

    BVetMed MRCVS

    Georgia graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in London and joined the Woodcroft team in August 2018. She is interested in all aspects of small animal general practice including medicine and surgery. Outside of work Georgia enjoys travelling, running and spending time with her dog, Jess.

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    Yifeng Jin

    Veterinary Surgeon

    BVM&S MRCVS

    Yvonne graduated from the University of Edinburgh and joined the Woodcroft team in August 2018. She is interested in all aspects of general practice with a particular interest in surgery. Outside of work she enjoys baking and spending time outdoors.

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    Emma Priestley

    Registered Veterinary Nurse

    Group Head Nurse

    Emma is the Nurse Manager for Woodcroft Veterinary Group. She joined us in 1989 and qualified as an RVN in 1996. She then became Head Nurse of our Cheadle branch in 2001 before eventually moving into the Nurse manager role for the group. In her role she supports and oversees the head nurses, nurses and apprentices in all branches.

     

    In Emma’s spare time she enjoys looking after and riding her horse, walking her dog, going on holiday and listening to music.

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    Zoe Oatway

    A&E Manager

    Registered Veterinary Nurse

    Zoe joined Woodcroft Veterinary Group in 1996 on a YTS scheme and qualified as an RVN in 2000. During her time at Woodcroft she has worked within all of the practices and various disciplines but moved to Councillor Lane when it opened in 2012. There she held the position of Head Nurse before moving to Woodcroft Veterinary Hospital to take on the role of A&E manager, overseeing the emergency service.

    After working within the Orthopaedic department during her time at Woodcroft Vets, Zoe developed an interest in Rehabilitation and has gained qualifications in Canine Rehab and Hydrotherapy. After over 25 years in the profession Zoe loves that there is always something new to learn.

    In her spare time she enjoys walking, running and caravanning with her family, including her 3 children and sausage dog Slinky!

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    Vicky McConville

    Registered Veterinary Nurse

    Head Nurse

    Vicky is our the head nurse of our Handforth Branch

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    Alex Rowlands

    Senior Veterinary Nurse

    Senior Nurse

    Alex joined the Woodcroft team back in 2006 as a Trainee Veterinary Nurse and then went on to qualify as a Registered Veterinary Nurse in 2014. Working in practice, Alex developed a professional interest in animal behaviour and so went on to study for a Certificate in small animal behaviour, which she completed in 2020.

     

    Alex enjoys working in our first opinion branches, and runs the puppy parties and weight clinics out of our Handforth branch.

     

    Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with friends and family. She has a dog, cat and an African pygmy hedgehog that keeps her on her toes and she enjoys gaming, reading and doing arts and crafts.

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    Louisa Grimsley

    Head Veterinary Nurse

    RVN

    Louisa is a Registered Veterinary Nurse primarily based at our Offerton branch. In 2022, she was made the head nurse here. She joined Woodcroft Vets 6 years ago, completed all of her training and qualified in 2018.

     

    Even though Louisa is primarily at our Offerton branch, she does do some days at our hospital with the referral team and on the hospital ward.

     

    In her free time, Louisa likes to spend time with her 2 horses who she used to compete, although now she just hacks them out.

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    Caitlin Atkinson

    Registered Veterinary Nurse

    Caitlin is a registered veterinary nurse (RVN) at Woodcroft Veterinary Hospital

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    Charlotte McNeill

    Registered Veterinary Nurse

    RVN

    Charlotte joined us in 2017 as a trainee, based mostly at our Heaton Moor branch but also working at Woodcroft Veterinary Hospital and doing out-of-hours shifts in the A&E department. She qualified in 2021 and is now a Registered Veterinary Nurse. She finds her job as a Veterinary Nurse very rewarding.

     

    She loves spending time with her family and after her day is done providing first class care for the animals at work, she likes to come home, settle down and get into a Netflix series with her husband and 2 dogs. She likes to eat out (or in!) with her favourite foods being Italian and Indian.

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    Eve Scanlan

    Registered Veterinary Nurse

    Eve is a registered veterinary nurse (RVN) at Woodcroft Veterinary Hospital and our Offerton surgery.

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    Eve Sanders

    Trainee Veterinary Nurse

    Eve is part of our nursing team at Woodcroft Veterinary Hospital.

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    Lindsay Johnson

    Reception

    Group Head of Reception

    Lindsay is the head of our reception team for the Woodcroft Group.

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    Gemma Iwanowytsch

    Reception

    Gemma is part of our reception team at Woodcroft Veterinary Hospital and our Bramhall branch.

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    Rachel Grime

    Reception

    Rachel is part of our reception team at our Offerton surgery

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    Fiona Knight

    HR

    Assoc CIPD – Human Resources Manager

    Fiona has worked with Woodcroft for over 33 years, she began as a nurse and has since moved worked on reception, eventually moving on to become our Human Resources Manager.

    Her role as HR Manager involves her working closely with every team at Woodcroft, looking after staff wellbeing, recruitment, hiring, and onboarding of new team members, as well as performance management and employee retention. Fiona recently completed her CIPD Level 5 in HR to enhance her skills and knowledge.

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    Ashleigh Bates

    Senior Veterinary Surgeon

    BVetMed (Hons) MRCVS

    Ashleigh graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in London and joined Woodcroft Veterinary group in January 2015. She enjoys all aspects of clinical practice with a particular interest in internal medicine and is currently studying for the certificate in Small Animal Medicine. Ashleigh spends a lot of her free time horse riding, eating out and occupying her cheeky springer spaniel!

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    Casey Dillon

    Registered Veterinary Nurse

    Head Nurse

    Casey started with Woodcroft straight out of school 12 years ago and has worked in all of our branches focusing mainly on Orthopaedics when at the hospital. Now she is the head nurse at our Heaton Moor branch, heading up a team of registered veterinary nurses, student nurses and trainees.

    Casey has a 3 year old border terrier called Skye who is a known to be totally crazy and two beautiful children. In her spare time she enjoys keeping fit and spending time with her family in Anglesey as they love the beach!

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    Rion Martin

    Nurse

    Auxillary Nurse

    Rion is part of our nursing team at Woodcroft Veterinary Hospital, she works as part of our Emergency & Critical Care team.

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    Sarah

    Trainee Veterinary Nurse

    Sarah is one of our nursing apprentices.

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    Holly Brierley

    Registered Veterinary Nurse

    Holly is part of our nursing team at our Councillor Lane surgery.

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    Colette Gallagher

    Reception

    Head Receptionist

    Colette is the head of the reception team at our Handforth surgery

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    Danielle O’Brien

    Rota Administrator / Senior Receptionist

    Danielle is part of our reception team at our Councillor Lane surgery

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    Ellie Horton

    Reception

    Ellie is part of our reception team at our Handforth surgery.

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    Lucie Parker

    Head Receptionist

    Lucie is the head receptionist at our Offerton surgery

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    Sara Harrison

    Reception

    Sara is the head receptionist at our Summerfields surgery

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    Tina Eadie

    Reception

    Tina is part of our reception team at our Heaton Moor surgery

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    Rebecca Henshall

    Administration

    Bsc(Hons) HND NVQ Office Manager

    Rebecca has been a long standing member of the team at Woodcroft, beginning her career here as a receptionist and gradually working to become the Office Manager.

     

    Her role involves overseeing the day to day runnings of the administrative office, and providing support to each of our 7 branches in the Stockport area.

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    Gary Knight

    Maintenance

    Maintenance Supervisor

    Gary works for Woodcroft Vets as our Maintenance Supervisor – his role covers any maintenance and installation tasks that are essential to the running of a Veterinary Practice.

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    Lisa Brougham

    Senior Insurance Administrator

    Senior Insurance Administrator

    Lisa is a Senior Insurance Administrator based at our Cheadle Hulme Office.

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    Lisa Hurst

    Administration

    Senior Administrator

    Lisa is one of our senior administrators at our Cheadle Hulme office

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