April 17th 2025. The Current Veterinary MarketOver the last few years 90% of all sales were to the corporate buyers, this slowly tapered off as their level of purchase rose to 60%.
The CMA investigation has certainly stopped them all in the tracks, with the sales market being almost zero.
The present sales market is based on practices who still want to sell up and practices who are waiting to see what the Corporates do after the CMA report comes out and what restrictions it places.
I feel that the high prices previously paid offered will not be back except for the highest earning practices
18/04/25. The BBC expose on IVC Evidensia
The recent BBC. exposure relating to the business practices’ of IVC, e.g. vets being set marketing targets and, team talks on how to maximise sales income from clients, will not go down well with the general public and affect the reputation of veterinary surgeons
THE BVA, RCVS should be listening and take a lead on and trying to maintain the reputation of veterinary surgeons, we need some positive action rather than mundane pronouncements from these bodies, after all I assumed that’s what they were voted in for?
April 20th 2025. The Veterinary Record
As a member of the BVA I used to get my copy regularly every week, apart from the job ads and death notices, there we always regular short letters from practitioners about cased the had seen. Since being published by Wiley it seems to only publish academic style letters, the procedure to get something published is cumbersome and lengthy.
Still I was pleasantly suprised to see job adverts, that could be viewed without being a member of the BVA
