Our Team Langford Vets encourages a community spirit and excellent learning opportunities.

Sarah started nursing in 1991 and since that time has been proud to see great changes in her profession, and the standards of care we are able to provide. She has worked in practices all over the south west and joined Langford Vets in 2014 as a full time night nurse. Sarah loves her job it is challenging and very rewarding, and it is a privilege to be part of the team that cares for our clients pets overnight. Her passion is Emergency and Critical Care, and also Medicine cases, but she enjoy nursing all patients, and getting to spend quality quiet time with each of them.

Suzanne worked in a small animal practice in Nottingham where she qualified as a veterinary nurse from the Berkshire College of Agriculture in 1999.
In 2002 she moved to work here at The Feline Centre where she cares for cats with both medical and surgical problems. During her time at The Feline Centre she has gained her diploma in advanced medical nursing and has worked alongside International Cat Care (formerly the Feline Advisory Bureau) teaching qualified Veterinary Nurses from around the U.K advanced feline nursing skills.
Suzanne is also involved in teaching both our veterinary and veterinary nursing undergraduates and is now senior nurse in our internal medicine department.
At home Suzanne has a gorgeous blue Abyssinian called Wizard and likes to keep active by participating in a variety of keep fit classes as well as singing in a band.

Juliet received a First Class degree from the University of Bristol in 2017, having read Veterinary Nursing and Bioveterinary Science for four years. After completing Langford Vets' Graduate Nursing Programme, she took up a full-time position in the Canine Medicine Department. As well as caring for hospitalised patients, Juliet enjoys running medical procedures, teaching veterinary and veterinary nursing students, and her role in the hospital's Infection Control Committee.

Claire graduated from Middlesex University with honours in veterinary nursing in 2012. She worked in a charity practice in London and then a referral practice in Norfolk before leaving to travel abroad. Claire spent eight months away in South East Asia and New Zealand where she worked and volunteered at various dog shelters and elephant rescue centres.

Claire moved to Bristol in 2015 before joining the Small Animal Referral Hospital in July. Outside of work she has a keen interest in travel, music and skiing

Sarah is a Certified Canine Rehabilitation Practitioner and Registered Veterinary Nurse. She qualified as a veterinary nurse in 2002 and since qualifying has specialised in animal behaviour and holds and MSc in Clinical Animal Behaviour from the University of Lincoln.

Lucy is one of our dermatology nurses and has been working in dermatology since 2021 at Langford Referrals. She has an active role in patient care, as well as assisting with procedures such as skin biopsies and video otoscopy. She passed her veterinary dermatology nursing course in 2023. She performs microscopic analysis of diagnostic sampling, in addition to helping to teach the veterinary and veterinary nursing students on clinical rotations within the hospital.

Holly qualified as a veterinary nurse in 2008. Holly spent 2 years at a busy tier 3 veterinary hospital in Staffordshire post qualifying. She joined Langford Vets in 2011, where she began her role as a night nurse and went on to work within the ICU. In 2013 holly gained her certificate in emergency and critical care and stepped into the head ICU nurse role at Langford vets. She achieved a veterinary technician specialist status in emergency and critical care in 2015 and in 2021 completed her DipAVN. Holly stepped down as head ICU nurse in 2020 to enjoy a more clinical role within the ICU team.

Rachel qualified in 2012 with a First-class honours degree in Veterinary Nursing, from Middlesex University.

She has since worked at a range of practices, including general practice, charity, referral and university, including a year abroad in Australia. It was here, working in the ICU of Melbourne University Hospital, that she discovered her interest in emergency and critical care.

Rachel joined Langford Vets Small Animal Hospital in 2017, initially as a neurology and surgery ward nurse, before joining the Intensive Care team as a core ICU Nurse in 2018.

Rachel passed the Vets Now Certificate in Emergency and Critical Care in 2019, with 3 distinctions. In 2023, Rachel gained specialist status as an AVECCTN (Academy of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Technicians and Nurses) board-certified Veterinary Technician Specialist in Emergency and Critical Care (VTS ECC).