<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/utility/feedstylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>CVS buys VET (aka Pet Doctors)</title><link>/b/veterinary-news/posts/12817</link><description> According to Mandadeals.co.uk , CVS has agreed to buy Veterinary Enterprise and Trading, including it&amp;#39;s 27 surgeries in the South East of England which operate under the Pet Doctors brand and Greendale, its diagnostic and laboratory business, for &amp;#163;12</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 10</generator><item><title>RE: CVS buys VET (aka Pet Doctors)</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/b/veterinary-news/posts/12817</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:09:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:753764a8-eeed-45a6-a4ef-a5ab28609268</guid><dc:creator>George Cooper</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;however - in each of those sad surgeries there are normal independent vets and nurses doing the work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/aggbug?PostID=12817&amp;AppID=5&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CVS buys VET (aka Pet Doctors)</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/b/veterinary-news/posts/12817</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:09:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:753764a8-eeed-45a6-a4ef-a5ab28609268</guid><dc:creator>Dexter Smith</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;They won&amp;#39;t need to challenge the RCVS, because as soon as we allow anything approaching a lay majority on the RCVS they&amp;#39;ll be running that as well!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/aggbug?PostID=12817&amp;AppID=5&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CVS buys VET (aka Pet Doctors)</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/b/veterinary-news/posts/12817</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:07:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:753764a8-eeed-45a6-a4ef-a5ab28609268</guid><dc:creator>Evelyn Barbour-Hill</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Tesco...................................&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/aggbug?PostID=12817&amp;AppID=5&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: CVS buys VET (aka Pet Doctors)</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/b/veterinary-news/posts/12817</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:45:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:753764a8-eeed-45a6-a4ef-a5ab28609268</guid><dc:creator>Hannah Wynne Richards</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Very sad. Soon, at least where small animal work is concerned, we will have CVS doing all the daytime work, and Vets Now doing all OOH. The INDEPENDANT veterinary surgeon will become a thing of the past, and we will lose our status as a self-governing profession, because these monster conglomerates will be too powerful for RCVS to challenge.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wynne&lt;/p&gt;
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