Liverpool University Faculty of Veterinary ScienceThe first veterinary school in the UK to be incorporated in to a University, the faculty's treatment and research facilities on the main campus and at Leahurst on the Wirral Peninsula, approximately 12 miles outside Liverpool, are amongst the most advanced and innovative in the country. There are three main teaching hospitals: The Philip Leverhulme Equine Hospital is one of the busiest and most successful equine hospitals in the UK, with particular expertise in the areas of gastroenterology, oncology, orthopaedics and neurology. The University's Veterinary Development Campaign is currently in the midst of fund raising to support the installation of the first veterinary MRI Unit in the North of England and a new Radiotherapy Unit. The Small Animal Teaching Hospital moved to its new home in April 2007: a brand new, state of the art £9.6 million facility at Leahurst. Thuis is the most modern, well-equipped hospital for small animals in the UK. Faciltiies include MRI and CT scanning, the Johnson Foundation radiotherapy treatment unit, an operating theatre dedicated to key-hole surgery, and the Hill's Pet Mobility Centre. The Farm Animal Hospital takes cases from throughout NW England and North Wales for detailed investigation and intensive care treatment. In 2006 the faculty was voted no. 1 UK vet school in The Times Good University Guide 2006, awarded 24/24 by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education and in 2005 was cited as 'the University with the most satisfied students' by the British Veterinary Association and the Association of Veterinary Students.
Those departments are based in the Main Veterinary Building and Small Animal Hospital on the Liverpool Campus and at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at, 'Leahurst' , approximately 12 miles outside Liverpool on the Wirral Peninsula. |
