Organisational background

VVS was founded by cardiology specialist Dr Nuala Summerfield.

During her time in clinical practice, she saw first-hand the importance of collaboration between first-opinion vets and specialists as the key to improved patient outcomes. She also identified the strong desire of vets in practice to improve their skills and knowledge to optimise their patient care.

Recognising the need to make specialist veterinary healthcare more easily accessible and available Virtual Veterinary Specialists was created in 2017; introducing to the veterinary world a real-time, collaborative, digital platform. This ground-breaking service enables vets in practice to work up their own cases in-house with live-guided virtual support from one of our team of veterinary specialists.

Organisation aims & mission

Our goal is to support veterinary colleagues to achieve clinical excellence by bringing world-class, multidisciplinary specialists into first-opinion practices via groundbreaking technology.

We focus on optimising animal welfare, upskilling and empowering veterinary professionals with the clear aim of encouraging their growth as businesses and individuals.

Through VVS, we hope to positively impact the lives of veterinary professionals, owners, and pets and help shape the future of specialist veterinary healthcare.

“We are able to offer the highest standards of care while improving and learning in the process. Working with the VVS team is always a pleasure and it is always rewarding.” Dr Riccardo Incarnato MRCVS

“I think VVS is pretty amazing. I don’t understand why everyone doesn’t use it. I would never consider going back to anything else” Dr Ines Serrao MRCVS

Being a small but growing company, all employees have a real voice in helping to shape the organisation.

VVS Commercial Manager Lydia Morgan says of working for VVS:

“My work-life balance has improved significantly since joining VVS! I have also had the opportunity to develop valuable non-clinical skills whilst using my clinical experience.

Working at VVS has provided me with a really incredible opportunity to play an important role in building and developing our company and its services. For me, it has been an exciting step outside of clinical work and one I am so glad to have made.”