EUROPE’S largest veterinary care provider, IVC Evidensia, has received planning permission from Birmingham City Council to open a new state-of-the-art veterinary referral hospital in Longbridge, providing 24-hour care for pets in Birmingham and the surrounding areas.
The hospital will be one of the largest veterinary hospitals in the UK with the capacity to treat up to 10,000 pets per year.
IVC Evidensia, which has over 100 veterinary referral centres across the UK, has been granted planning permission to build a 36,000 sq. ft. greenfield hospital.
The plans come on the back of pet ownership in the UK being at an all-time high – an estimated 3.2m new households in the UK purchased a pet during lockdown.
The referral hospital, which will eventually employ around 100 staff, will accept patients referred from daytime vet practices across the Midlands, including pets which need more specialist treatment or out of hours care.
The hospital will include state-of-the-art equipment, pioneering treatments and specialist-led extended clinical services including: a custom-built…
