To highlight and celebrate the significance of wellbeing in vet practices, the Awards were created by the Society of Practising Vets (SPVS) and are now run in partnership with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Mind Matters Initiative.
We will be adding their entries online soon for other practices to take a look and see why they did so well:
Winner – Meadows Farm Vets
Highly Commended:
• Vets4Pets Grantham
• Loch Leven Equine Practice
Winner – Viking Vets
Highly Commended:
• Maven Veterinary Care
• Clent Hills Vets
Winner – White Cross Vets
Winner – Blacks Vets
Highly Commended:
• The Pets ‘n’ Vets Family
For 2017 we added a new category to recognise the diversity of workplaces in which veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses can be found, and celebrate what is being done to support their wellbeing, wherever they are.
The category was for workplaces where vets and nurses work in a non-clinical capacity. However, we hadn’t anticipated how hard it would be to compare such a variety of workplaces and their activities – especially given the diversity of the great initiatives in place!
The judges therefore decided to commend each of the entries in this new category this year for the excellent initiatives they have put in place, rather than making one outright winner.
The commended entries are as follows:
Highly Commended – Vets4Pets Head Office
Highly Commended – Onswitch
Highly Commended – Animal and Plant Health Agency / Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Highly Commended – The Webinar Vet
Now in their third year, the Awards are open to UK veterinary practices, or other veterinary workplaces, of all sizes and every member of the team is encouraged to take part in entering.
The prize for each category includes two registrations and banquet tickets for SPVS/VPMA Congress 2019 where the winners will be announced to the media and will be available for interview. For more reasons to enter please click here.
If you would like to be informed when the 2018 Awards are open for entry, please click here.
FOR ANYONE LOOKING for great ideas and inspiration on wellbeing at work - the winning entries for the Vet Wellbeing Awards 2017 are now online vetwellbeingawards.org.uk/case-studies-2017/ #vetwellbeing
Nick Stuart, founder of the Vet Wellbeing Awards meets with White Cross Vets, one of the recent award winners to find out more about their wellbeing initiatives.....#vetwellbeing SPVS RCVS - Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Mind Matters Initiative.
Email: info@vetwellbeingawards.org.uk
Tel: 01453 872731
