Trustees

Dr Freda Scott-Park
BVM&S, PhD, MRCVS

Freda qualified from the Royal (Dick) in Edinburgh in 1979.  Despite her best intentions to go straight into practice, she was persuaded to study for a PhD in canine cardiology and then went on to work for eight years in Glasgow in a mixed, mainly small animal practice.

While completing her PhD, she married David, a dairy farmer at the south end of Loch Lomond.  During her first two years in practice, Freda combined veterinary work with building a house on the farm.

Following a career break to have children David and Ginny, she kept her hand in as a regular locum with the PDSA in Glasgow.  in 1994 she began teaching student veterinary nurses at Edinburgh's Telford College and over thos five years enjoyed some of the most satisfying times of her career, teaching anaesthesia, cardiology, reproduction and urogenital medicine.

For the past seven years, Freda has read ECGs derived from studies into new pharmaceutical compounds with a view to detecting ECG abnormalities tht could be a problem in their clinical use in humans.

Currently her clinical work is confined to looking after the organic farm herd of Ayrshires, Friesians and Limousin crosses along wit the farm collies, a couple of cats and various rats and hamsters.

Freda was President of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association 2003-2004 and President of the British  Veterinary Association 2005-2006.

John Michael Hill
MVB MRCVS

John qualified from Trinity College in Dublin in 1975.  After spending four years in large animal and mixed practices in Northern Ireland and Lancashire, John bought a predominantly large animal practice in Crumlin, Co. Antrim in 1979.  The practice now has three surgeries with six vets working mainly in companion animal practice.

John has also held the following posts:

President of the Association of Veterinary Surgeons Practising in Northern Ireland (1993)

President of the North of Ireland Veterinary Association (2004)

Chairman of the Northern Ireland Veterinary Education Trus (1996 - present)

Board member of Veterinary Northern Ireland (2005 - present)

President of the Society of Practising Veterinary Surgeons (2007)

Wendy Barnett
DipAVN (Surgical) VN - Executive Director

Wendy qualified as a veterinary nurse in December 1992.  She started in mixed animal practice in Cornwall before spending two years locuming in the UK.  In 1996 she took a head nurse position in Sussex to pursue a Diploma in Advance Veterinary Nursing (Surgical) which she gained in March 1999.

In 2000, Wendy moved into the emergency and critical care field, eventually taking a position as clinical manager with Vets Now at their Bristol clinic.  Wendy used her time off from the emergency shifts to train as a human phlebotomist for the National Health Service.  this phlebotomy interest led to Wendy being given the post of Pet Blood Bank researcher for Vets Now in January 2006.  The research has taken Wendy far and wide from the USA to Australia.  Vets Now agreed to raise the funds to support othe UK's first Pet Blood Bank Charity on completion of the research programme.  Wendy currently resides as a trustee and is the authorisation holder of the VMD licence for Pet Blood Bank UK.

Colin F Clark BA CA

Colin is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and has over the last twenty five years held a number of general and financial manangement positions within a variety of high growth companies in Scotland.

Colin currently runs his own corporate finance business and holds a number of non-executive positions with companies across a variety of industry sectors.