Topic: awards

Entries for the annual SPVS Veterinary Business Excellence Awards – an initiative designed to “celebrate and honour outstanding veterinary practices that have demonstrated exceptional performance and innovation in key areas crucial to the future success of the profession” – are now open.

Awards are presented across three categories:

• Leadership and management skills – recognising practices that exhibit “visionary leadership, strategic planning, resource and finance management and innovative practice development”.
• Team and self-development – for practices that have “excellent morale, a culture of collaborative teamworking and effective communication, in a supportive and inclusive work environment”.
• Veterinary start-ups – honouring practices that have started up in the last 2.5 years, that have grown in both quantitative and qualitative parameters and achieved a profitable and sustainable business model.

Five shortlisted practices in each category will receive a book of their choice provided by 5m Books; the three category winners will win full-day and evening tickets to SPVS Congress 2027 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole (three team members per practice), where the overall winner will be announced, plus overnight accommodation. Pet People Vets of East Sheen was the overall winner in the 2025 awards.

The awards are supported by health and safety and employment law consultancy Citation. See spvs.org.uk/business-excellence-awards. The deadline for submissions is Friday 9th October.