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Caroline's Kilimanjaro Challenge for VetAid

Our vet Caroline Allen will be hiking up Mount Kilimanjaro in aid of the charity VetAid. The money raised from the 19,340ft climb will help rural communities in Africa by providing stock and education on how to keep productive, healthy animals.
If you would like to support Caroline and VetAid, please sign the form in the Practice or speak to Caroline.
For more information on the charity visit: www.vetaid.org

New head nurse

After a rigorous search we are happy announce the appointment of our new head nurse Anne Richings.
She brings to the Practice a wealth of experience and knowledge and is a very welcome addition to the team.

New state of the art ultrasound

We are excited to announce the recent arrival of our new MyLab Vet ultrasound machine. This machine has the latest ultrasound technologies available in veterinary medicine and is the first one of its kind in the UK.
The machine is based on a similar model for use in humans and its fantastic capabilites and image quality means faster, better diagnoses.
Ultrasound allows us to view images of the internal anatomy of the body in real-time, such as the heart in motion, the abdominal organs, eyes, masses, tendons and, of course, the fetus in utero.
Some diagnoses we have already made using our new machine include: intestinal intussusception, polycystic kidney disease, bile duct obstruction in a cat, pancreatitis in a cat, dilated cardiomyopathy (dilation of the heart) in a Cocker Spaniel, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (thickening of the heart muscle) in several cats, abdominal tumours in cats and dogs, bladder tumours, benign bladder polyps and more.
The faster we get to a diagnosis, the faster we can start treatment and therefore the better the prognosis.

Accessibility Improved

We've just completed a review of the entire website to ensure it complies with the W3C Accessibility Guidelines. Compliance means the site can be easily used by disabled people, such as those with visual impairment. Whilst most of the web-site already complied, we've made a few changes where necessary to bring the whole website inline with the guidelines. If you are a disabled user, we'd love to hear if our changes have made the website easier to use, of if there are further improvement we could make.

Welcome to the new site!

We've got a new site which we're very excited about! In addition to the preventative health information from the old site we now have a News section so we can keep you informed about what is happening at Canonbury Veterinary Practice. If you don't want to check the site for news you can receive it via email by subscribing to our mailing list. Just enter your email address in the box on the right to subscribe. If you have any questions or suggestions to do with the new site you can send them to us using the Your Feedback page linked from the top menu.