Reading
Tel: 07809 388381
As a farmer's son Phil was always brought up believing that everything had to show a financial return. As our job of looking after animal health is intrinsically linked with productivity - we need to be able to demonstrate our worth to your business. With an ever increasing skill set on farms, our work is changing from less "fire brigade" style of work to more advisory and farmer training. It is the high quality of our advice and training and the ability to demonstrate the cost benefit of controlling disease that we strive to constantly achieve.
It is with this in mind that we have opened Westpoint Reading in order to offer farmers in Berkshire, and north Hampshire, the level of high quality service they demand and deserve. The practice consists of a combination of high quality experienced farm vets on the ground with access to specialist knowledge from consultants throughout the Westpoint Veterinary Group and a team of paraprofessionals and foot trimmers. Westpoint Reading links up nicely with its sister practices in Hampshire and West Sussex.
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Phil McIntosh BVM&S MRCVS Phil is Senior Vet at our Winchester Practice at Bridgets Farm and Reading Practice. Previously Phil was Senior vet at our Warnham practice. Phil is a graduate of the Edinburgh vet school and is particularly interested in cattle nutrition, farm data analysis, and mastitis control. He is studying for the advanced veterinary qualification of the Certificate in Cattle Health and Production. |
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Andrew Richmond MRCVS Andrew qualified from Edinburgh University in 1996. He then joined a mixed practice on the Norfolk/Suffolk border where he worked for two years. Having decided on a career working with farm animals, Andrew then moved to the New Forest, where he served the farming community in Hampshire and Dorset, and further afield for the following eleven years. His main professional interests lie in biosecurity and infectious disease control, in mastitis control and treatment, and in the importance of correct nutrition in the dairy herd. |
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Rob Simmons BVMS MRCVS Rob studied Veterinary Medicine at the University of Glasgow, qualifying in Summer 2009. After graduating he went home to Worcestershire to work in mixed practice for 18 months where he worked with a wide variety of species from hamsters to elephants (and everything in between!) before deciding farm work was where his heart lay and joining Westpoint. His areas of particular interest include surgery and dairy cow fertility. |
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