Our nursing team is a vital and integral part of our practice. Their roles are many and vary from care of hospitalised horses, assisting in theatre and helping with lameness investigations and other diagnostic procedures.
We realise the importance of quality nursing and are a registered equine veterinary nurse training centre. All of our nurses attend training courses and have the opportunity to become fully qualified equine veterinary nurses (EVN) a qualification which has only recently become available, reflecting the increasing specialisation within the profession.
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Heather Greenslade EVN
Heather is our head nurse and as such is responsible for the day to day care of the in-patients and running of the theatre and clinical equipment. She also supervises the other members of the nursing team. She is a qualified veterinary nurse and has also completed her Equine Veterinary Nursing conversion course.
Her outside interests include National Hunt Racing, breeding youngstock, course building and stewarding.
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Lucy Forrest EVN
Lucy joined the practice in 2006 and recently completed her equine veterinary nurse training to become a fully qualified EVN. She has a large amount of experience handling and caring for horses and has run a livery yard in Cornwall. In addition she has worked as and eventing groom in America. She has her own horse and rides as often as work permits.
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Cat Reed - Trainee EVN
Cat also joined the practice in September 2006 having previously worked in several yards and studs around the country. As such she has good experience in caring for both adult horses and foals and is particularly interested in neo-natal care. She has a number of qualifications across the field of equine care including the National stud diploma and an NVQ2 in race horse care. In her spare time she looks after Ollie her lurcher and rides out horses when time permits.She has successfully passed the first year of her equine veterinary nurse training.
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Katie Bellamy - Nursing assistant
Katie joined Western Counties in 2009 initially in a veterinary groom role. She subsequently moved into a nursing role at the beginning of 2010 and hopes to embark on her EVN training at the end of this year.
Outside of work Katie is a keen rider and enjoys eventing her young horse "Goose".
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